MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Mexican authorities found 129 migrants, mostly from Guatemala, crowded into a truck trailer in the eastern state of Veracruz, the National Migration Institute (INM) said in a statement on Saturday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Three days after the failure to launch Star Network, a mobile solutions option for customers, owner Keron Les Pierre was asked to leave the Invaders Bay co-working space where he had set up shop.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva entered his sixth month in office with a 37% approval rating and a 27% disapproval rating, according to a Datafolha poll released Saturday, showing a stable result compared to the same pollster’s data released in March.
(Trinidad Guardian) Canadian flag carrier Air Canada is set to resume service to POS, Trinidad out of Toronto, Canada from November 1.
(Trinidad Guardian) Tobago House of Assembly Chief Secretary Farley Augustine is accusing one contractor, who is owed millions of dollars by the THA, of seeking to blackmail his executive into paying a $60 million sum due using the recently leaked audio clip.
(Trinidad Guardian) Residents of Katwaroo Trace, Penal, are facing a new threat, as oil-slicked snakes are now invading their properties in the aftermath of Monday’s oil spill.
A wide cross-section of Haitian stakeholders met in Kingston, Jamaica, at the invitation of the CARICOM Eminent Persons’ Group on 11-13 June 2023 to facilitate dialogue among the Haitian stakeholders in an effort to find a solution to the protracted multi-dimensional crisis in which the country has been mired.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic said yesterday it did not approve the installation of a Canadian office to coordinate support for neighbouring Haiti’s national police, a day after Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly announced plans to set one up this summer.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Kevin McCarthy yesterday threatened to use congressional appropriations to block funding for a U.S.
(Reuters) – Ecuadorean security forces have confiscated pigs, fighting cocks and more than two dozen bladed weapons, among other items, from a high-security wing of Bellavista prison in the city of Santo Domingo, the country’s military said on Friday.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – The World Bank approved a new $500 million loan to Costa Rica aimed at strengthening support for the government’s budget, according to a statement from the international lender released on Friday.
(Reuters) – An aide of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro sought legal support to back up a military intervention to prevent President President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva coming into government after last year’s elections, a police report showed today.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and several members of Cabinet have met with Chief Justice Ivor Archie to discuss the administration of justice in the country.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Canada will coordinate an aid operation to Haiti this summer in response to the Caribbean nation’s volatile security, Canadian Foreign Minister Melanie Joly said yesterday, while announcing fresh sanctions against a former politician and a famous singer.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, (Reuters) – Jamaican Finance Minister Nigel Clarke said he is seeing “definite interest” from other Caribbean countries to join in issuing a regional catastrophe bond that would protect their budgets from hurricanes and spread investor risk across more countries.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Top food producer Brazil will start stocking up on food staples, a government agency said yesterday, as the leftist administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva makes good on last year’s campaign trail promise to curb food inflation.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Iranian President Ebrahim Raisi met with Cuban counterpart Miguel Diaz-Canel yesterday, his last stop on a three-nation Latin American tour aimed at shoring up support among Latin American allies saddled, like Iran, by U.S.
(Trinidad Express) A Venezuelan national charged with possession of firearms for the purpose of trafficking has been sentenced to nine years’ hard labour by a San Fernando Senior Magistrate.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile and the European Union will sign a memorandum of understanding (MOU) soon to develop value-added lithium projects in Chile, Ursula von der Leyen, president of the European Commission, said yesterday.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – A Guatemalan court yesterday sentenced Jose Zamora, a well-known journalist whose work has criticized successive governments, to six years in prison for money laundering in a case that rights groups have branded an attack on free speech.
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