LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivian President Luis Arce said yesterday the country may start exporting lithium batteries starting by 2026, as part of the government’s plan to industrialize its vast resources of the white metal, a key component for powering electric vehicles.
TOKYO (Reuters) – Japanese Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi is planning to visit Paraguay, Peru, Chile and Barbados in the build-up to May’s Group of Seven summit in Hiroshima, Kyodo news agency reported yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) Justice Carlisle Greaves is not happy. His displeasure stems from the unwillingness of a number of witnesses to testify in trials where four men, in two matters, were accused “of shooting up the place”.
(Trinidad Express) A relative of one of the two men killed along the Churchill-Roosevelt Highway in Piarco, on Monday night, heard the gunshots that ended their lives and saw the vehicle they were in pull to the side of the road.
(Trinidad Guardian) One religious leader is calling on National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds and Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher to break their silence and give the public some kind of assurance and comfort as crime fear continues to grip the people of Trinidad and Tobago.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – The United States, Panama and Colombia will launch a two-month campaign to tackle undocumented immigration through the jungle region separating Colombia and Panama known as the Darien Gap, their governments said yesterday following high-level talks.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile’s Congress on Tuesday passed a hard-fought bill to gradually cut the work week to 40 hours from 45 hours, a legislative victory for President Gabriel Boric amid faltering popularity.
(Trinidad Guardian) What was a usual family dinner turned into 30 minutes of terror for the Ghany family on Sunday night, as six men invaded their property and beat, tormented and traumatised them demanding cash and valuables.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States and Cuba will hold another round of migration talks on Wednesday, officials said, as the Biden administration braces for the end of COVID-era border restrictions that have blocked Cubans in recent months from crossing into the U.S.
(Jamaica Observer) Less than 24 hours after the St Andrew South police urged the most wanted men in the division to turn themselves in, a massive police/military operation was launched in search of them.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – There is no such thing as illegal trafficking of fentanyl between China and Mexico, China’s foreign ministry said on Thursday, responding to a letter from the Mexican president asking Beijing to help limit illicit flows of the deadly drug.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest rose 14% in March from the previous year, preliminary official data showed on Friday, highlighting the continued challenges for the new leftist government.
(Trinidad Express) A PENAL man was shot and killed, and his body was dumped on a desolated road a few kilometres away from his home on Saturday morning.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The St James police are reporting that they have solved the August 2022 murder of Anthony Junior Williams, otherwise called ‘Sunny T’, using “exceptional investigative skills” and ballistic science.
(Trinidad Guardian) Four Maloney men remained hospitalised following a mass shooting on Saturday afternoon.
(Trinidad Express) A Penal man was shot and killed, and his body was dumped on a desolated road a few kilometres away from his home on Saturday morning.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – U.S. venture capitalist Stacey Brandhorst has traveled Latin America giving advice to fledgling entrepreneurs.
(Trinidad Express) A Chinese grocer was gunned down on the compound of his supermarket in San Juan on Friday night.
(Barbados Nation) The Barbados Light and Power Co Ltd is continuing investigations into the cause of last Tuesday’s island-wide blackout.
(Trinidad Guardian) Helen Riley’s fervent hope that her unborn grandchild would survive the tragic shooting that claimed her son’s life and left his 16-year-old girlfriend in critical condition at hospital were dashed with the loss of the baby yesterday.
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