Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A Chutney Soca Monarch (CSM) finalist and former CSM queen is condemning this year’s results.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A former Mexican law enforcement official once in charge of his country’s fight against drug traffickers was convicted yesterday on U.S.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The death toll from heavy rains that devastated coastal areas of Brazil’s southeastern Sao Paulo state rose to 46 people yesterday, according to officials, with more precipitation expected.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – The Honduran government extended its state of emergency for a second time yesterday, while also expanding it to cover a growing portion of the Central American country, as part of leftist President Xiomara Castro’s crackdown on gangs.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s attorney general’s office said on Tuesday on Twitter that the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr. Keith Rowley has received a letter of apology dated February 20, from American Airlines Managing Director, International Government Affairs, Robert Wirick, for treatment meted out at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport last week.

SAO SEBASTIAO, Brazil,  (Reuters) – The death toll from devastating rainfall in southeastern Brazil rose to 40 yesterday, official figures showed, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva visited the region and said homes should no longer be built in areas at risk of landslides and major floods.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Integrity Commission (IC) Executive Director Greg Christie has strongly rejected calls for his resignation, declaring that he has been unbiased in his duties over the last three years at the anti-corruption agency.

(Trinidad Express) Former SM Jaleel vice-president Adil Aleem Mohammed has been convicted and placed on probation by a court in the United States for unlawful use of a two-way device.

(Trinidad Express) Mitera Balkaran’s battle with cancer is over. The 33-year-old mechanical engineer succumbed to her illness and died early on Saturday morning at San Fernando General Hospital after landing in Trinidad about two weeks prior.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Heavy rains in coastal areas of Brazil’s southeast have caused flooding and landslides that killed 36 people and dislodged hundreds of others, according to a statement from Sao Paulo state authorities on Sunday.

(Trinidad Express) Newly appointed Government Senator Richie Sookhai has denied accusations on social media that his family donated air-conditioning units to the People’s National Movement (PNM) to install at its Balisier House headquarters in Port of Spain.

(Trinidad Guardian) Ricardo “Daddy Chinee” Melville is the 2023 Chutney Soca Monarch, while breakout performer, nine-year-old Katelin Sultan is the new Queen of Chutney.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – A substantial hike in children crossing the Darien jungle – linking Panama with Colombia – is expected this year, the United Nations said on Friday, amid a surge in migrants making the dangerous journey to reach the United States.

(Reuters) – Former U.S. President Jimmy Carter has decided to receive hospice care and “spend his remaining time at home with his family” instead of additional medical intervention, the Carter Center said yesterday.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea said yesterday it had tested a Hwasong-15 intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) the previous day in a “sudden launching drill” that confirmed its readiness for “mobile and mighty counterattack” against hostile forces.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – A health ministry record indicates that former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, a vocal skeptic of COVID-19 vaccines who vowed to never get the jab, may have received one in 2021, the country’s comptroller general’s office said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caricom leaders, including Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, yesterday held virtual discussions with Ukraine President Volodymyr Zelenskyy—and also focused attention on developments in Suriname, where protesters stormed the Parliament yesterday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – There will be no “witch-hunt” to root out members of Brazil’s military who may have potentially been involved in the Jan.

PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – Dozens of protesters forced their way into Suriname’s parliament as hundreds more rampaged through the nation’s capital Paramaribo today, clashing with police as demonstrations against the government descended into chaos.