Regional News

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Sons of former Mexican drug lord Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman denied U.S.

NEW YORK (Reuters) – Credit Suisse repurchased Ecuadorean sovereign notes worth $1.6 billion in face value, the country’s bankers said on Thursday, freeing cash for conservation of the unique Galapagos Islands in the biggest debt-for-nature swap ever struck.

(Trinidad express) The police service will continue to partner with international cyber experts to identify the source of last week’s e-mail bomb threat.

(Trinidad Express) Police were called to another murder scene this morning at St Ann’s, Port of Spain.

BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian police on Wednesday raided former President Jair Bolsonaro’s home, arrested his trusted aides, and seized his cell phone as part of a probe into his COVID-19 vaccination records.

(Trinidad Express) The man shot dead in St Ann’s, Port of Spain, on Tuesday has been identified as local dancehall artiste, Anthony “Wacko Dan” Reyes.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian police today raided former President Jair Bolsonaro’s home and arrested two personal aides as part of an investigation into falsified COVID-19 vaccination records, two sources familiar with the matter said.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government and judiciary objected yesterday to big tech firms campaigning against an internet regulation bill aimed at cracking down on fake news, alleging undue interference in the debate in Congress.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil offered yesterday to help cash-strapped Argentina and provide support to Brazilian exporters so that they can continue to sell to the neighboring country, their main exporting market for manufactured goods.

(Barbados Nation) Government, the private sector and the trade unions on May Day signed onto the Declaration of Mission Barbados.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian police and environmental protection agents were ambushed by illegal gold miners on the Yanomami Indigenous reservation in the Amazon on Monday and four miners were shot dead in the exchange of gunfire, a government statement said.

(Trinidad Guardian) A San Juan man, who managed to survive two separate shootings in the last week was killed on the third attempt by murderers.

RIBERAO PRETO, Brazil, (Reuters) – Former right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro stole the show yesterday at Brazil’s largest agribusiness fair where he was acclaimed by supporters from the country’s strong farm sector.

 (Barbados Nation) Barbadians are being told to brace for the possibility of shortages in some crops, as the agricultural drought affecting the island persists.

(Trinidad Express) Vouchers to pay fines are now available at NLCB lotto booths.

ASUNCION,  (Reuters) – Paraguayan conservative economist Santiago Pena, 44, won the country’s presidential election yesterday, tightening the ruling Colorado Party’s political grip in the country and defusing fears about the end of diplomatic ties with Taiwan.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil will increase efforts to remove the remainder of wildcat miners from indigenous lands following a shooting attack by invaders that killed a Yanomami indigenous person and left two others seriously injured, the Ministry of Indigenous Peoples said today.

(Reuters) – An armed attack has killed 10 people in the Ecuadorean port city of Guayaquil, the public prosecutor’s office of Ecuador and police reported today.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s Catholic Church yesterday said the “door was open” to future talks over the release of prisoners on the island following a meeting the previous day with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and top advisors.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – The Mexican Senate approved in an express session yesterday a package of laws including two constitutional reforms and a new mining law rebuked by the mining chamber and Canada.