SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – A court in El Salvador sentenced former President Mauricio Funes and his justice minister to more than a decade behind bars for their ties to criminal groups and failure to comply with duties, the attorney general’s office said yesterday.
(Reuters) – The Trinidad and Tobago government accepted bid recommendations for six of eight onshore oil and gas exploration blocks, people close to the matter said on Sunday, setting the stage for awards to be disclosed as soon as this week.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican business giant and founder of the LASCO Affiliated Companies, Lascelles Chin, died on Saturday night in the United States.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Violence by armed gangs has fallen “drastically” since the emergence of a vigilante justice movement that has seen at least 160 suspected criminals killed in the last month, a report by local human rights research group CARDH said on Sunday.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil’s government said on Friday the United Nations has confirmed the Amazonian city of Belem as the host of the COP30 climate change summit in November 2025.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The police are searching for three boys who reportedly escaped from the Rio Cobre Juvenile Correctional Centre at Tredegar Park, Spanish Town, St Catherine on Saturday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Repeatedly targeted, beaten and terrorised by bandits, armed with guns or cutlasses, farmers are buckling under pressure.
(Reuters) – Nicaraguan police said yesterday they are investigating several dioceses of the Catholic Church for money laundering, a day after local media reported that the bank accounts of parishes in the Central American country had been frozen.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A move by Mexico’s energy regulator to declare some natural gas-fired power as “clean” drew criticism from environmental groups that say the change will not help the country reach its clean energy targets.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalan police arrested a former top prosecutor yesterday, accusing him of abusing his authority for investigating corruption allegations against an ex-president of the Central American country.
MEXICO CITY/LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru President Dina Boluarte blasted her Mexican counterpart yesterday as “very ignorant,” as a dispute between the two leaders escalated over the contentious ouster of Peru’s former president late last year.
CARICOM Heads of Government have appointed an Eminent Persons Group (EPG) to represent them to extend the Community’s Good Offices to the Government of Haiti and Haitian stakeholders.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesteday summoned his environmental and indigenous affairs ministers for emergency talks after a congressional committee passed a bill gutting the ministries’ environmental oversight powers.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Department of Correctional Services (DCS) has launched an investigation after two cell phones were seized from convicted dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel a day apart at the Tower Street Correctional Facility in Kingston.
(Trinidad Express) Twenty-five-year-old mother of five Gabrielle Raphael was raped and strangled, a post-mortem has revealed.
(Trinidad Guardian) Election footing is on, as Local Government elections will be held within 90 days of the Privy Council’s May 18 judgment.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Roman Catholic Church leaders in Bolivia said yesterday the institution had been “deaf” to sexual abuse in Church-run schools and said they were taking action after a series of accusations in recent weeks led to protests and a legal investigation.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – The Colombian unit of Italy’s biggest utility, Enel ENEI.MI,
(Reuters) – Consumer prices in Mexico fell by more than expected in the first half of May, driving annual inflation to its lowest in 20 months in the first figures released after the central bank decided to pause interest rate hikes.
(Trinidad Guardian) A proposal from an independent multidisciplinary team has presented a strategy for developing a wind industry in T&T covering the period until 2035.
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