(Trinidad Guardian) The Occupational Safety and Health Authority (OSHA) yesterday served a prohibition order stopping the operation of NiQuan Energy’s Gas-to-Liquids (GTL) plant in Pointe-a-Pierre, following an incident last Thursday, which led to the death of 35-year-old pipefitter Allanlane Ramkissoon on Sunday.
(Reuters) – The Caribbean islands of St. Lucia and Martinique will shut down schools and nurseries today ahead of the arrival of one of the season’s first tropical storms, officials said yesterday.
(Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Belize as being free from malaria, marking success for the Central American country after 70 years of continuous efforts to eradicate the disease.
(Reuters) – The World Health Organization (WHO) has certified Belize as being free from malaria, marking success for the Central American country after 70 years of continuous efforts to eradicate the disease.
(Trinidad Guardian) Although it poses no direct threat to Trinidad and Tobago, all eyes are on Tropical Storm Bret, which was located just over 1,300 kilometres east of Tobago yesterday evening.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – At least 41 people have died in a Honduran women’s prison, a spokesperson from the public prosecutors’ office said yesterday after an apparent prison riot.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador will lose $1.2 billion in oil income per year if a proposal to bar production in one of its major oil blocks is successful at the ballot box in August, the energy minister said yesterday.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Thousands of anti-government demonstrators marched through Colombia’s major cities yesterday to protest the economic and social reforms pushed by the government of leftist President Gustavo Petro.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Energy and Energy Industries (MEEI) has set up a team to investigate the incident in which Massy Energy Engineered Solutions Ltd (MEES) worker, Allan Lane Ramkissoon, died after suffering severe burn injuries on the job.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – A delegation of high-level Cuban officials wrapped up an extended visit to Russia, according to state-run media reports yesterday, following up on the nearly 30 trade agreements signed between the allies in Havana in May.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Cuban peso has stalled at 200 to the dollar on the informal market this week, matching an all-time low and signaling more trouble for efforts to stem an ongoing currency and inflation crisis on the communist-run island nation.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian children face a severe lack of food, medical support and education, the head of the United Nation’s children’s agency UNICEF said in the capital Port-au-Prince yesterday, hours after heavy shooting rang out near a packed camp of displaced persons.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian authorities said yesterday they had seized 28.7 metric tonnes of illegally obtained shark fins that would be exported to Asia, in what they called the world’s largest confiscation of its kind at the origin.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – One of Honduras’ leading anti-corruption advocates yesterday said she had left the Central American nation because of threats, weeks after accusing President Xiomara Castro’s government of nepotism.
(Trinidad Express) A 54-year-old farmer was shot dead in Las Lomas on Saturday morning.
SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – At least one student has died after a school shooting in Brazil’s southern city of Cambe yesterday, the Parana state government said in a statement, adding that another wounded student has been hospitalized.
(Reuters) – The third topical depression of the 2023 hurricane season has formed in the central tropical Atlantic and is expected to become a hurricane in a few days, the U.S.
(Reuters) – The third topical depression of the 2023 hurricane season has formed in the central tropical Atlantic and is expected to become a hurricane in a few days, the U.S.
Port of Spain, Trinidad – The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) late Friday, published its judgment denying special leave in a case out of Barbados, in which Ramnarace Ramassar sought permission to appeal an ejection order obtained against him by his landlord, Stella Scantlebury.
(Trinidad Guardian) It’s a devastating Father’s Day for widower Jewanlal Ragoonath, as he mourns the loss of his youngest daughter, Tricia Raghoonath.
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