(Reuters) – A U.S. court ordered a two-week pause on the extradition of Peru’s former President Alejandro Toledo, wanted in his home country on charges of taking millions of dollars in bribes as part of a continent-spanning corruption case.
(Trinidad Guardian) A grandfather and grandson were killed yesterday when a tree they were cutting fell on top of them.
(Reuters) – Giants of the orange juice trade in Brazil have become defendants in a class-action lawsuit seeking billions in damages over an alleged price-fixing scheme that ran between 1999 and 2006, a prosecutor told Reuters.
(Trinidad Guardian) The US State Department officially announced the acquisition of 137 Long Circular Road, Maraval.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Finance Ministry is expected to levy a 15% tax on the revenue of sports betting companies, in addition to requiring a fee of 30 million reais ($5.93 million) to operate in the country, two sources with knowledge of the matter told Reuters yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) A shooting in the crime-plagued Freeman Road, St Augustine community left two men dead and a pregnant teenager fighting for her life at hospital.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s president said yesterday the government should control about two-thirds of the national power market within 18 months, doubling down on his pledge to give primacy to the state in defiance of a simmering dispute with foreign investors.
HAVANA/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Lines for fuel in Cuba´s capital Havana snaked for blocks yesterday as frustrated citizens waited for hours, and in some cases days, to fill their tanks, the latest chapter in a growing economic crisis that is rattling the Caribbean island nation.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – The number of people arrested as part of a corruption investigation at Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA has risen to 34, Attorney General Tarek Saab said yesterday.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro appeared at the federal police headquarters on Wednesday to testify in an investigation into jewelry and gifts given in 2021 to the then-president and his wife by the king of Saudi Arabia.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. imposed sanctions on the former president of Haiti’s Chamber of Deputies yesterday for what it called “his extensive involvement in corruption,” the Treasury Department said.
(Reuters) – At least 389 kidnappings were registered in Haiti in the first three months of this year, rights group CARDH said on Tuesday, marking a three-fold increase from the last quarter of 2022 as gangs look to recoup losses from international sanctions.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian authorities plan to evacuate people living within 15 kilometers of the Nevado del Ruiz volcano, which is being monitored for a possible eruption, with more evacuations possible in the coming days.
(Trinidad Guardian) A U.S. citizen who moved his family to Syria to join the Islamic State terrorist group has been sentenced to 20 years in federal prison.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said on Monday he believes the country’s economy will grow “more than pessimists think,” noting he does not agree with forecasts of a slow gross domestic product growth.
(Trinidad Guardian) Mother of three, Kemba Morris tried to save the lives of her family when fire broke out at their Siparia home yesterday morning, but sadly paid the ultimate price when she and her youngest daughter never made it out.
(Trinidad Guardian) The upcoming final judgment in the successful Piarco Airport civil case in Miami will be completed by settling pre-verdict interest over the 19 years which the case took to complete, plus costs—which could bring the final figure which T&T will receive close to TT$1 billion.
(Barbados Nation) A series of rates and conditions of service have been put in place for people in the construction sector employed by firms which have been awarded Government contracts.
(Trinidad Express) The bullet-riddled body of a man discovered near Usine pond in Ste Madeleine on Thursday has been identified as a Gasparillo market vendor.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s attorney general said yesterday he was investigating alleged acts of corruption in state-owned metals conglomerate Corporacion Venezolana de Guayana (CVG).
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