(Trinidad Express) Sachel Kungebeharry, the used car dealer who was allegedly kidnapped for ransom by police officers in a marked police car last month, has been found dead.
LIMA, (Reuters) – In a vacant lot outside the town of Trujillo, in northern Peru, archaeologists have unearthed the remains of nearly four dozen children — all thought to have been ritually sacrificed more than 600 years ago.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Armed men belonging to the Gran Grif gang killed at least 70 people, including three infants, as they swept through a Haitian town shooting automatic rifles at residents, a spokesperson for the United Nations’ Human Rights Office said today.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s Supreme Court agreed yesterday to consider a constitutional challenge to the controversial judicial overhaul enacted last month that will move the country over the next few years to a system of popularly elected judges.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – At least 11 people were killed and dozens injured in an overnight attack in a Haitian town led by the Gran Grif gang, local newspaper Le Nouvelliste reported yesterday, as powerful armed gangs expand their influence from the capital.
CARTAGENA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s state-run oil company oil Ecopetrol ECO.CN and Brazil’s Petrobras PETR4.SA yesterday
(Jamaica Gleaner) Olympics legend Usain Bolt is said by his attorney to be “shocked and disappointed” by the lack of movement in the more than one year-old SSL fraud case.
(Reuters) – One in six children in Haiti is facing emergency food insecurity, just one step away from famine, according to a report from charity Save the Children published today.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Argentine students protested in the streets yesterday against sharp spending cuts at public universities by President Javier Milei’s libertarian government.
(Reuters) – The Dominican Republic’s presidential office yesterday announced an “immediate” plan to deport up to 10,000 migrants per week, as the Caribbean island nation ramps up border enforcement with its conflict-hit neighbour Haiti.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The Haitian government’s anti-corruption agency charged five high-profile individuals with corruption yesterday, including three members of an interim governing council, over a scandal involving bribing the chairman of a state-owned bank.
… But Speaker says she would have allowed it (Jamaica Gleaner) Speaker of the House of Representatives Juliet Holness on Tuesday said she had intended to allow Opposition Leader Mark Golding to move a censure motion against Prime Minister Andrew Holness.
(Trinidad Guardian) Colm Imbert’s over five-hour long budget presentation is coming under criticism for its length, with former finance ministers saying it was a form of abuse inflicted on the population.
MANAUS, Brazil, (Reuters) – Francisco Mateus da Silva, 67, spent an hour walking across sandbanks and dry riverbeds where he lives in the Amazon to fetch food and water amid the worst drought on record in the region, which has paralyzed river transportation.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The Brazilian state of Pará, which will host the COP30 global climate talks next year in the Amazon, is defending local regulations that encourage illegal gold mining, according to documents in the case before the Supreme Court seen by Reuters.
PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – France’s TotalEnergies TTEF.PA and U.S. APA Corp APA.O
(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has applied to the Supreme Court to have an Integrity Commission investigation report into his financial affairs rejected as “unlawful”, “unfair” and premised on an “unconstitutional” law.
(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Colm Imbert on Monday delivered a budget package with salary increases and other sweeteners for public servants in an overall $59.7 billion package.
PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – France’s TotalEnergies TTEF.PA and U.S. APA Corp APA.O today announced a positive investment decision for Suriname’s most promising oil and gas project, Block 58, which is expected to inaugurate the nation’s offshore output.
ATAFONA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Sonia Ferreira’s two-story house with a pool and garden on the Brazilian coast was yet another casualty of the advancing waves of the Atlantic Ocean, pushed higher by climate change.
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