BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s poverty rate soared to almost 53% in the first half of the year, official data released yesterday showed, the first hard evidence of the painful impact of libertarian President Javier Milei’s tough austerity measures.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s government yesterday declar-ed a 60-day state of emergency in districts around Lima to fight a rise in crime, the nation’s prime minister said, as striking bus drivers strangled traffic in a bid for boosted security.
(Reuters) – A Connecticut oil and gas trader was convicted yesterday over a nearly eight-year scheme to bribe officials at Brazil’s state-owned oil company Petrobras PETR4.SA so
CARACAS/MARACAIBO, (Reuters) – At least two people died and four were declared missing following the sinking of an oil barge operated by a contractor of Venezuelan state-run energy company PDVSA at Lake Maracaibo, PDVSA said yesterday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Land access to a vital supply port in the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince is being closed off after attacks by armed gangs, operator Caribbean Port Services (CPS) said today.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Haitian Prime Minister Garry Conille said yesterday that the Caribbean country was a long way from winning its war against armed gangs that control most of the capital, as a United Nations deadline for long-delayed support fast approaches.
(Trinidad Guardian) The murder toll continued to climb yesterday, following the shooting deaths of two cousins and the wounding of three others, including a four-year-old child, during an attack linked to gang warfare enveloping the Malick community.
(Trinidad Guardian) Government Senator Laurel Lezama-Lee Sing has resigned. The development follows reports that an Interim Protection Order was granted against her after it was filed by her husband Daren Lee Sing.
MEXICO CITY/MADRID, (Reuters) – A fight dating back more than five centuries reemerged yesterday as Mexico’s incoming president defended a decision to not invite the Spanish king to her inauguration next week after the monarch declined to apologize for colonial-era abuses.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said yesterday he is ready to sign a trade agreement between the European Union and South America’s Mercosur bloc, but that it is now up to the EU to conclude negotiations.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Global outsourcing company Ibex has scaled back its operations in Jamaica, closing two centres, and eliminating one-third of its contact desks, in the process.
(Trinidad Guardian) The conflict between Massy Holdings Ltd and its former executive vice president, Angélique Parisot-Potter, could be heading to the courts.
(Trinidad Guardian) Yesterday, Daren Lee Sing offered no comment on a document in which he reportedly gained a restraining order against his wife, PNM Senator Laurel Lezama-Lee Sing.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The operator of a beauty supply store in Spanish Town, St Catherine was yesterday fined a total of J$2.6 million in the parish court for selling counterfeit bleaching products.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Helene is expected to unleash mudslides and flooding in Cuba before reaching major hurricane strength on Thursday as it hits Florida with life-threatening ocean surge, the U.S.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Power cuts in Ecuador will run nationwide for 12 hours per day, up from a planned eight, the government said yesterday, citing the country’s urgent energy crisis caused by the worst drought in the Andean country’s recent history.
LIMA, (Reuters) – The fossilized remains of three mastodons from the Ice Age have been uncovered in the Peruvian Andes, raising questions as to how the behemoths arrived in the area.
PUERTO ESCONDIDO, Mexico, (Reuters) – Mexico’s top disaster agency issued a red alert for parts of the country’s southern Pacific coast yesterday after Hurricane John rapidly strengthened to a Category 2 storm and threatened to get stronger before making landfall in the coming hours.
(Trinidad Guardian) Tobago’s murder count hit another record yesterday morning when a father of one became the island’s 24th murder victim.
(Jamaica Observer) Two men are dead after gunmen, posing as police officers, entered a premises and opened fire in Free Hill, St Mary, early Sunday morning.
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