MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican state oil company Pemex illegally burnt off hydrocarbon resources worth more than $342 million in the three years up to August 2022 at two of its most important new fields, internal documents from the country’s oil regulator showed.
(EWNnews) NASSAU, BAHAMAS — Nassau Cruise Port’s chief executive has hailed the port’s 26,000 plus cruise passenger milestone as a “fantastic feat,” while acknowledging the city’s lack of entertainment to support them as “disappointing”.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two Morvant men were killed by police in Barataria yesterday, as they conducted a sting operation to apprehend suspects they believed were using social media sites to lure unsuspecting victims to locations and robbing them.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has given instructions to Marlene Malahoo Forte, minister of legal and constitutional affairs, to proceed with “speed” towards transforming Jamaica into a republic.
GUATEMALA CITY/ BOGOTA, (Reuters) – A diplomatic spat between Guatemala and Colombia intensified yesterday as Guatemala’s government accused Colombia’s defense chief of crimes related to a high-stakes graft probe he once led as a special prosecutor in Guatemala.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has removed 40 troops guarding the presidential residence after expressing distrust in the military for failing to act against demonstrators that ransacked government buildings on Jan.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – With a Brazil flag draped around his neck and his feet propped up on a dark wooden table, Samuel Faria leaned back in the Brazilian Senate president’s ceremonial chair which he had just commandeered and surveyed the chaos on the lawn outside.
(Barbados Nation) A Barbados brand of sugar has made history by being the first-ever locally produced product to be available on the shelves of US retail giant, Walmart.
(Reuters) – The Bahamas detained an increasing number of sea-borne Cuban migrants in 2022 compared with 2021, according to figures released to Reuters, as an economic crisis triggered an exodus from the Communist-run island.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – A new high-tech study has revealed nearly 1,000 ancient Maya settlements, including 417 previously unknown cites linked by what may be the world’s first highway network and hidden for millennia by the dense jungles of northern Guatemala and southern Mexico.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 55-year-old man and his nephew were murdered during a robbery in Wallerfield yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) People’s National Movement leader Dr Keith Rowley has rung in the changes within his contingent of deputy political leaders.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Two more people suspected of participating in the May murder of a Paraguayan prosecutor have been arrested, the Colombian prosecutor’s office said yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A shipment of cocaine valued at more than J$7 billion (US$50 million) was seized in Kingston on Saturday, in what’s believed to be one of the largest drug busts in Jamaica’s history.
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru has extended a state of emergency for another month in the capital city of Lima and two southern regions where deadly protests against the government have sparked the country’s worst violence in 20 years.
(Jamaican Observer) A woman was shot dead in Landsettlement, near Royal Flat, in Manchester Central on Saturday night.
JOHANNESBURG (Reuters) – South African President Cyril Ramaphosa will no longer attend the World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos due to the ongoing energy crisis in the country, his spokesman said on Sunday.
KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaican authorities have seized an estimated US$80 million worth of cocaine from a ship at the port of Kingston in one of the country’s biggest-ever drug busts, authorities said.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s former Justice Minister Anderson Torres, who was in charge of public security in Brasilia during the invasion of government buildings a week ago, was arrested in Brasilia yesterday on suspicion of “omission” and “connivance”.
(Trinidad Guardian) Executive Director of the Inter-American Development Bank Robert Le Hunte believes that T&T’s long-standing water delivery problems can be properly addressed once and for all following a US$315 million loan to this country.
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