(Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police said on Monday they had a “strong conviction” a gang leader known as “Colombia” ordered the brutal murders of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, killed in the Amazon rainforest last June.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad played down the idea of a single shared currency between Argentina and Brazil late yesterday, saying the countries were looking at ways to stimulate bilateral trade but not extinguish their own currencies.
(Trinidad Guardian) Bar owner Vera Boopsingh stopped to help a motorist after his car crashed at the Gasparillo Overpass on Saturday night.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s ministry of health has declared a medical emergency in the Yanomami territory, the country’s largest indigenous reservation bordering Venezuela, following reports of children dying of malnutrition and other diseases caused by illegal gold mining.
(Reuters) – Brazil and Argentina will announce this week that they are starting preparatory work on a common currency, the Financial Times reported today.
(Trinidad Guardian) A hooded gunman stormed into a minimart at La Romaine on Friday and shot two men dead before jumping through a window, making a successful escape.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government is extending its congratulations to the newly elected 7th President of the Republic of Trinidad and Tobago, Christine Kangaloo.
(Trinidad Guardian) President-elect Christine Kangaloo is humbled by her appointment as Trinidad and Tobago’s next President.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Tensions flared again in Peru last night as police clashed with protesters in capital Lima in anti-government demonstrations that are spreading across the country.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police yesterday raided the house of the suspended governor of Brasilia, Ibaneis Rocha, who is under investigation for failing to prevent the storming of government buildings by supporters of far-right former President Jair Bolsonaro.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police today carried out raids against people suspected of involvement in the Jan.
(Trinidad Express) Leela Ramsubhag was brutally beaten and killed, and her partially nude body discarded in the yard of a house in Claxton Bay yesterday morning.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters in Peru, many from the country’s heavily indigenous south, descended on Lima, the capital, yesterday, angered by a mounting death toll since unrest erupted last month and calling for sweeping change.
URUARA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazilian environmental agents cut through the rainforest with machetes yesterday in search of criminals in the first anti-deforestation raids under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who has pledged to end surging destruction inherited from his predecessor, Jair Bolsonaro.
HAVANA/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A visiting U.S. delegation wrapped up two days of talks on law-enforcement issues with Cuban officials in Havana yesterday, the State Department said, the first meeting of its kind since such negotiations were halted under former President Donald Trump.
The Caribbean Media Corporation (CMC) today said that Prime Minister Gaston Browne has led his ruling Antigua and Barbuda Labour Party (ABLP) to victory in yesterday’s general election, winning nine of the 17 seats for a third consecutive term in office, according to the preliminary results released here early this morning.
URUARA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Brazil’s first raids against illegal deforestation in the Amazon rainforest under President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva were underway today, after the new leader’s pledge to end destruction that surged under his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.
(Trinidad Express) Three members of the Defence Force have been detained for questioning into the kidnapping and murder of 34-year-old Teddy Sylvester.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said yesterday his intelligence services had failed on Jan.
(Barbados Nation) Nassau – More than 157 000 passengers have visited The Bahamas since the start of the year with a record 26 410 passengers arriving during one day last week, and stakeholders indicating that the figures are a “strong rebound in the cruise industry”.
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