PUERTO ORDAZ, Venezuela (Reuters) – Flooding collapsed a gold mine in southern Venezuela, killing at least 12 miners, local authorities said on Sunday, adding that the victims’ bodies were returned to their families.
(Trinidad Express) A Princes Town businessman was shot dead inside his vehicle on Saturday night.
(Trinidad Express) Former executive chairman of CL Financial (CLF) and CLICO director Lawrence Duprey has been ordered by the High Court to reimburse more than US$139 million or approximately TT$1 billion ($947 million plus interest) to the companies for facilitating a deal to sell shares in what was then called CLICO Energy to Proman Holdings (Barbados) Ltd in February 2009.
(Trinidad Express) Two men were shot and killed during what police claimed was an exchange of gunfire early yesterday in Second Caledonia, Morvant.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday blocked former Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe from entering the United States over what Secretary of State Antony Blinken said was his “involvement in significant corruption.”
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Guillermo Lasso said yesterday he will not run in early elections scheduled for August, as he called for parties to unite to defend democracy in the country.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A dual Haitian-Chilean citizen was sentenced to life in prison yesterday after pleading guilty in a U.S.
(Reuters) – The United States today moved to block former Haitian Prime Minister Laurent Lamothe from entering the United States over what U.S.
(Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago is requesting the U.S. government amend the terms of a license authorizing the joint development of a promising offshore gas field with Venezuela, the Caribbean nation’s energy minister said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, His Excellency Ambassador Dennis Francis, has been elected as the 78th President of the UN General Assembly (UNGA).
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said yesterday he will appoint the lawyer who defended him against graft accusations, Cristiano Zanin, to a vacant Supreme Court seat.
(Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house of Congress approved late yesterday a bill that curtails the powers of the ministries of the environment and Indigenous affairs.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has suffered a major defeat over important legislation protecting the Amazon rainforest and the Indigenous people who live in it, and he has had to cut his losses in a conservative Congress.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s supreme court voted yesterday to sentence former President Fernando Collor de Mello to 8 years and 10 months in prison on corruption and money laundering charges.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – The current Colombia head of coal miner Drummond Co Inc DRMND.UL
VALENCIA/CARACAS, (Reuters) – The new CEO of Venezuelan state-run PDVSA is targeting endemic corruption at the financially troubled oil company while hoping to win over its 95,000 workers, a move critical to securing much needed cash for the country, home to the world’s largest crude reserves.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Divergent views on Venezuela surfaced during a South American leaders’ summit yesterday hosted by Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as part of his efforts to unite the region’s development and give it a stronger voice internationally.
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s lower house of Congress approved last night a bill to limit the recognition of new Indigenous reservations, a decision seen by environmentalists and human rights advocates as a setback after intense pressure from the farm lobby.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – South American presidents are gathering in Brasilia today for their first summit in almost a decade at the invitation of Brazil’s leftist leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who aims to regain his country’s active role in regional affairs.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and Brazilian leader Luis Inacio Lula de Silva yesterday assailed U.S.
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