Regional News

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s second instance appeals court lifted yesterday the suspension of the encrypted messaging app Telegram, imposed earlier this week for its noncompliance in sharing information about extremist and neo-Nazi groups using the platform.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduras is one of the deadliest countries in the world for human rights defenders, the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) said yesterday after a visit to the Central American country.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Last June, Mexico’s oil regulator unanimously rejected a plan presented by state energy company Pemex to develop its biggest discovery in three decades, arguing the proposal was both economically and technically unsound.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – While Chile’s plan to take control of its lithium industry has caused global shockwaves, state-led production of the metal used to make electric vehicle batteries is seen by analysts as likely years away given technical and political challenges.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The Brazilian government apologized yesterday for mistreating Afro-Brazilian families that were forcible moved from their coastal home in northern Brazil four decades ago to make way for the construction of a spaceport.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly yesterday approved a law allowing the government to seize assets linked to corruption cases, as it investigates irregularities at state oil company PDVSA and other state companies.

VILLA VICTORIA, Mexico,  (Reuters) – Every day, at a well near her home in Central Mexico, Isabel Solis fills plastic jugs with river water and loads them on her donkey to lug home for the day’s cooking, cleaning and drinking.

(Trinidad Guardian) Watermelon vendor Dillon Joseph, 30, was killed in a drive-by shooting at his stall near the Caroni roundabout yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) Following Tuesday’s triple murder at a Penal home, the five female relatives who survived the attack have moved out.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Con-gress yesterday opened an inquiry into the Jan.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro has asked his cabinet ministers to resign, two sources told Reuters late yesterday, as the leftist president faces delays and opposition to his agenda, in particular a health reform.

(Trinidad Guardian) “Babe, run”, Dwane Saunders shouted to his common-law wife, Akeisha Balkissoon, as a gunman shot him several times as they tried to get home on Sunday evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) Homicide detectives are investigating four murders in Penal which occurred over the past 12 hours, including a triple murder.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haitian police said yesterday that at least 10 suspected gang members had been lynched and their bodies burned by residents of Port-au-Prince.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Alessandra Korap Munduruku, who headed a campaign that led mining corporations to respect her people’s Indigenous territory in the Amazon rainforest, has been awarded the Goldman Environmental Prize.

Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) yesterday announced the resumption of flights to Caracas, Venezuela from May 13, 2023.

(Trinidad Guardian) Although last Monday’s shooting at Temple Street, Arima, left one woman dead at the scene, a second woman has now succumbed to injuries sustained during the attack after spending four days at hospital.

LIMA (Reuters) – Former Peruvian President Alejandro Toledo returned on Sunday to Peru from the United States, becoming the third head of state to be imprisoned as the South American country seeks to shake off years of corruption by its rulers.

LISBON (Reuters) – Government officials from Brazil are using their president’s first visit to Europe since being elected to raise awareness and fight against the racial discrimination faced by the Brazilian community in Portugal and elsewhere.

(Trinidad Guardian) An ongoing family dispute over a 16-acre parcel of land at O’Connor Street, Blanchisseuse, is being blamed for the killing of Carver Evangelist yesterday.