CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s former chief justice Maikel Moreno has been indicted on money laundering charges related to bribe payments he allegedly received in exchange for influencing court decisions, the U.S.
(Reuters) – More than one million Haitian children remain out of school and a similar number are under constant threat of violence in the capital Port-au-Prince area because of chronic lawlessness, the regional director of children’s agency UNICEF said yesterday.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia has made substantial progress on only three of 28 actions recommended by a regional human rights body to protect the right to protest after deaths during demonstrations in 2020 and 2021, the organization said yesterday.
BOA VISTA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Dozens of indigenous children suffering from malnutrition and acute diseases have been hospitalized in northern Brazil, with relatives in hammocks holding their emaciated frames in scenes that underscore the gravity of a public health crisis.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s former chief justice Maikel Moreno has been indicted on money laundering charges related to bribe payments he allegedly received in exchange for influencing court decisions, the U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) There will be no International Soca Monarch competition this year, as its promoters have decided to cancel it after Government refused their request for funding to the tune of $10 million.
(Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury yesterday imposed sanctions on Paraguay’s former President Horacio Cartes and current Vice President Hugo Velazquez, citing “rampant corruption that undermines democratic institutions.”
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian police officers yesterday blocked streets and forced their way into the country’s main airport to protest the recent killing of officers by armed gangs expanding their grip on the Caribbean nation.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Two sons of former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli returned to their country yesterday, after serving a sentence in the United States for money laundering in a case linked to the Odebrecht scandal, a spokesperson for the family said.
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – A Kenyan court yesterday found a Venezuelan diplomat guilty of murdering the Latin American nation’s acting ambassador a decade ago at her home in an upmarket Nairobi neighbourhood.
(Trinidad Express) Shakir Wells, a flight attendant, was shot and killed while dropping off a friend in Wallerfield on Tuesday night.
(Trinidad Guardian) A practicing Muslim, whose beard was shaved by prison officials while he was serving a short sentence almost two decades ago, is set to receive $200,000 in compensation.
PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago would pay Venezuela for natural gas produced at an offshore development with humanitarian supplies like food and medicine, Prime Minister Keith Rowley said, to comply with a U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 16-year-old schoolboy was among three killed yesterday. Darshan Ramnauth was gunned down opposite his home in St Augustine, while another man named Geno, age unknown, was found a short distance away in the same community.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s military should evict illegal gold miners who have caused malnutrition and starvation in a region of the Yanomami reservation near the Venezuelan border, Indigenous Health Secretary Weibe Tapeba said yesterday, urging “It looks like a concentration camp,” Tapeba, a doctor appointed to the position by Brazil’s new government, said in a radio interview.
(Trinidad Express) Three members of the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard, charged with murder, appeared virtually before the Port of Spain magistrates’ court yesterday.
WASHINGTON/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department has granted a license to Trinidad and Tobago to develop a major gas field located in Venezuelan territorial waters, a senior Biden administration official said today, marking a further easing of some sanctions on Venezuela.
(Trinidad Newsday) Three members of the Coast Guard’s elite Special Naval Unit have been charged for the murder of Teddy Sylvester, well-placed police sources confirmed to Newsday on Monday night.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) executive board approved $105 million to help Haiti address severe food insecurity, the institution said on Monday, as the Caribbean country faces widespread shortages amid a humanitarian crisis.
(Trinidad Guardian) The robbery of a KFC delivery driver on Sunday night ended in the deaths of three of four suspects in a shoot out with the police in Mayaro on Sunday night.
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