BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian police said they carried out nationwide raids and arrested at least two people yesterday in investigations into an alleged coup attempt during riots by supporters of defeated far-right President Jair Bolsonaro.
(Jamaica Gleaner) United States law enforcement now has on its radar key US players in the criminal underworld who continue to fuel Jamaica’s crime problem.
(Trinidad Guardian) A man who was shot in Pinto, Arima on Wednesday has succumbed to his injuries at hospital.
(Trinidad Express) Cleon Teesdale is expected to appear before a Princes Town magistrate on Friday, charged with seven offences including the murder of Sachel Elliot and her daughter, 17-month-old Nova Brereton.
(Jamaica Gleaner) United States law enforcement now has on its radar key US players in the criminal underworld who continue to fuel Jamaica’s crime problem.
(Trinidad Guardian) The curtains have been drawn on the life of Dr Leroy “Black Stalin” Calliste.
LA PAZ/SANTA CRUZ, Bolivia, (Reuters) – Bolivian police yesterday detained prominent opposition leader Luis Fernando Camacho on charges of “terrorism” in a move that significantly escalates tensions between the national government and Camacho’s Santa Cruz base.
KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness renewed states of emergency in eight parishes on Wednesday to control an ongoing threat of crime linked to gang activity in the Caribbean nation.
(Trinidad Express) What was supposed to be a night of celebration and joy ended in tragedy as 39-year-old Nichusasi Wells was stabbed to death in Sangre Grande.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 16-year-old Caroni teenager, who was among seven people shot in three separate incidents between Monday night and yesterday, succumbed to his injuries at hospital yesterday.
ANELO, Argentina, (Reuters) – Argentina’s booming shale production in Vaca Muerta, a formation that rivals the United States’ Permian Basin, is at risk of running out of road as infrastructure to handle the oil and gas nears capacity, threatening to put the brakes on rapid growth.
LIMA, (Reuters) – The anti-corruption unit of Peru’s attorney general’s office on Monday detained six generals amid an investigation into allegations the government of ousted former President Pedro Castillo illegally promoted police and military officers.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s president Alberto Fernandez said on Monday his government would abide by a recent Supreme Court ruling and give a larger proportion of state funds to the opposition-controlled city of Buenos Aires.
(Barbados Nation) A proposal to establish a ferry service for the Eastern Caribbean does not include Barbados in any of the four possible routes.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s president Alberto Fernandez said yesterday his government would abide by a recent Supreme Court ruling and give a larger proportion of state funds to the opposition-controlled city of Buenos Aires.
LIMA, (Reuters) – The anti-corruption unit of Peru’s attorney general’s office yesterday detained six generals amid an investigation into allegations the government of ousted former President Pedro Castillo illegally promoted police and military officers.
(Trinidad Guardian) Isaiah “Oopsie” Commissiong was celebrating his 20th birthday on Christmas Day, when he was followed by his attackers and gunned down as a group of men were playing a game of football at Phase 6 in La Horquetta yesterday.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador started Christmas Eve with a military operation against drug dealers in a San Salvador community, the government said yesterday, part of the country’s controversial attempt to fight criminal gangs.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Canada-based miner First Quantum Minerals Ltd FM.TO
(Trinidad Express) A pastor who was struck by a car on Friday night, has died at hospital.
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