(Trinidad Express) Guyanese nationals living and working in Trinidad have joined their fellow citizens in mourning the deaths of 18 girls and a boy in the alleged arson attack at Mahdia Secondary School in Guyana, late Sunday night.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase & Co JPM.N yesterday sought to shift blame for failing to snuff out sex crimes committed by the late Jeffrey Epstein, accusing the U.S.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Britain yesterday announced new funding for a landmark scientific experiment deep in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest that will measure the impact of rising carbon dioxide levels on trees, the British embassy said.
MONTEVIDEO, (Reuters) – Uruguayans in the capital Montevideo are praying for rain amid a historic drought that has left the main reservoir for the city with only ten days of water left.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has declined his salary increase amid public backlash over the massive pay hikes for politicians that were announced last week.
(Trinidad Guardian) Former government minister Brian Kuei Tung, businessman Steve Ferguson and United States businessman Raul Guiterrez Jr have signalled their intention to appeal the Government’s US$131.5 million (approx.
Jamaica Observer, Former Scare Dem Crew member Boom Dandimite died Sunday morning in a hospital in the US after suffering a relapse during his recovery from a terrible car accident in April that had left him bedridden.
(Trinidad Express)Three people, one of whom was said to be an “illegal gunsmith” linked to a criminal gang, were shot dead yesterday morning in separate incidents at Petit Valley, La Horquetta and Curepe.
(Reuters) At least 12 people died and an unspecified number were injured in a stampede at a soccer stadium in El Salvador on Saturday, the Central American country’s government said.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – At least 10 people were killed and nine injured in a shootout at a car show in northern Mexico’s Baja California on Saturday, the municipal government reported.
(Trinidad Express) A Carenage businesswoman was shot and killed today, three years after the killing of her husband, whose body was buried under concrete near a hotel the couple was constructing in Tobago.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – With barely a month to go before Guatemalan voters go to the polls to pick a new president, a judge suspended the candidacy of frontrunner Carlos Pineda yesterday, in a ruling swiftly denounced as undemocratic by the businessman outsider.
(Jamaica Gleaner) In the wake of backlash over the massive pay hike for parliamentarians, Prime Minister Andrew Holness has stated he will soon be announcing a series of accountability measures for members of parliament (MPs) and Cabinet ministers.
(Trinidad Express) Kisseh is innocent. This is the cry of a Carenage family that is seeking answers following the police killing on Tuesday of Kisseh Lendore.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s supreme court voted yesterday to convict former President Fernando Collor de Mello on corruption and money laundering charges.
WASHINGTON/CARACAS, (Reuters) – The U.S. has assured the United Nations that it will shield a proposed UN-administered Venezuela humanitarian fund from creditors, people familiar with the matter said yesterday, removing a key obstacle to getting the money flowing.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government’s move to extend the term of local government representatives by a year has been deemed unlawful.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaican writer Kwame McPherson has been named the Caribbean winner of the 2023 Commonwealth Short Story Prize.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The Brazilian environmental protection agency Ibama said yesterday it had rejected a request from state-run oil company Petrobras to drill a well at the mouth of the Amazon River.
CAMPINAS, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazil is taking extra precautions to protect the world’s largest poultry export industry from a highly pathogenic avian influenza virus that was this week detected among wild birds in the country after previously hitting neighboring nations.
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