Regional News

CAMAÇARI, Brazil,  (Reuters) – The workers who traveled from China to northeast Brazil to build a new factory for electric car maker BYD 002594.SZ

(Trinidad Guardian) Tenants of Building C in Orchid Gardens, Pleasantville, are traumatised after a woman from the area was murdered in their building.  Chezerae Kidney-Ramdass, 39, of Apartment 13, was shot dead in her apartment around 3.40 pm on Wednesday by a man pretending to be a customer.  She operated a small parlour from her apartment on the ground floor and conducted sales through her bedroom window.  Customers would ring a bell to signal that they came to make a purchase.

WASHINGTON/BOGOTA, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s envoy Richard Grenell will meet with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro on Friday in Venezuela, both countries said, amid a deportation and anti-gang push by the Trump administration that has ruffled feathers around Latin America.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a shocking twist, this country’s Commissioner of Police Erla Harewood-Christopher, the former head of the sole intelligence agency Roger Best, the Chief of Defence Staff Darryl Daniel and a local firearms dealer were all yesterday caught in a police net as key persons of interest in the ongoing investigation into the Strategic Services Agency (SSA), more specifically in the acquisition of two sniper rifles.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tenants of Building C in Orchid Gardens, Pleasantville, are traumatised after a woman from the area was murdered in their building.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) –  Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said yesterday that his government would reciprocate if U.S.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Canadian miner Lundin LUN.TO must permanently close its Alcaparrosa copper mine in Chile, the South American nation’s environmental regulator said yesterday, after a massive sinkhole cracked open near the small mine in 2022.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican government says it is “rigorously” assessing the risks associated with the deportation of criminals to Jamaica from the United States of America.

(Reuters) – Constitutional reforms proposed by Nicaragua’s President Daniel Ortega to further consolidate power by extending his control over other parts of government won final approval yesterday after a unanimous vote.

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panamanian President Jose Raul Mulino yesterday ruled out discussing control over the Panama Canal in a meeting with U.S.

Caribbean Airlines (CAL) yesterday said that it has taken note of the statement dated January 28, 2025, issued by the Trinidad and Tobago Airline Pilots Association (TTALPA) regarding the emergency landing of flight BW1541 on January 27, 2025.

Caribbean Airlines (CAL) today said that it has taken note of the statement dated January 28, 2025, issued by the Trinidad and Tobago Airline Pilots Association (TTALPA) regarding the emergency landing of flight BW1541 on January 27, 2025.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – When Marco Rubio arrives in Latin America this weekend on his first foreign trip as Donald Trump’s secretary of state, he’ll find a region reeling from the new administration’s shock-and-awe approach to diplomacy.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Kristi Noem cut the duration of deportation protections for 600,000 Venezuelans in the U.S.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico President Claudia Sheinbaum said on Wednesday she does not believe the United States will impose tariffs on  Saturday as President Donald Trump has pledg-ed, but said her administration has its own response plan in place if needed.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti’s transitional council president Leslie Voltaire said in an interview yesterday that a date for the Caribbean nation’s long-awaited general elections has been fixed for around Nov.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he will order the Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security to prepare a migrant facility at Guantanamo Bay for as many as 30,000 migrants.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago Airline Pilots Association (TTALPA) industrial relations representative Timothy Bailey says the association is deeply concerned about the incident involving a CAL ATR 72-600 aircraft, which was forced to make an emergency landing on Monday night at Piarco International Airport.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) has denied claims made by Oropouche East MP Dr Roodal Moonilal that 80 per cent of passengers on a flight were subjected to secondary screening at the Orlando International Airport on Monday.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Trump administration has revoked an extension of deportation protections that the previous administration granted to more than 600,000 Venezuelans already in the United States, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing a copy of the decision.