Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Two more murders have taken the murder toll to 590.

(Trinidad Express) A Caroni man was found dead in a hotel in San Fernando on Wednesday.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentina’s leftist President Alberto Fernandez has sparked a battle with the country’s top court and something of a legal crisis after he said he would reject a ruling it made to give a larger proportion of state funds to the city of Buenos Aires.

TUMACO, Colombia,  (Reuters) – In a clearing of Colombia’s Pacific jungle, the dense canopy encircles an area of desolation left by a clandestine refinery, where oil waste blackens everything underfoot, seeping into the soil and coating the vegetation.

(Reuters) – A U.S. judge dealt a blow yesterday to Alex Saab Moran, a Colombia-born businessman accused in a corruption scheme involving Venezuela’s ruling Socialists, by rejecting his assertion of diplomatic immunity.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador yesterday said authorities should resolve a case of alleged plagiarism by a Supreme Court justice he nominated who is in the running to take the helm of the country’s top tribunal.

(Trinidad Guardian) A nine-year-old boy is currently receiving counselling from the Children’s Authority of T&T after witnessing his elderly father being choked by a man at their home, shortly before his father died.

(Trinidad Guardian) After more than 13 years, the Central Bank of T&T yesterday relinquished control of the British American Insurance Company (Trinidad) Ltd (BAT).

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – An Argentine court has sentenced a former police officer extradited from France to 15 years in jail for the kidnapping and disappearance of a young man during the country’s so-called Dirty War some four decades ago, a court clerk said yesterday.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A Venezuelan man has been arrested for his alleged involvement in the May murder of a Paraguayan prosecutor in Colombia, Venezuela’s interior minister said yesterday.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Chile plans to open an embassy in the Palestinian territories, President Gabriel Boric said late on Wednesday, which could make the Andean country one of only a handful to have an embassy-level office in the territories that are contested with Israel.

(Trinidad Guardian) The University of the West Indies St Augustine Campus, and the Inter-American Development Bank have signed a Technical Cooperation Agreement in the amount of US$996,000.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s political opposition to the ruling Socialists voted yesterday by a wide margin to remove the interim government led by Juan Guaido, as they seek a united front ahead of presidential elections tentatively scheduled for 2024.

(Trinidad Express) A woman who lost her husband and her son in a shooting at Three B’s Drive, Piarco, claimed yesterday that, despite constant reports about being followed home by suspicious people, the police never responded.

(Trinidad Express) A woman who lost her husband and her son in a shooting at Three B’s Drive, Piarco, claimed yesterday that, despite constant reports about being followed home by suspicious people, the police never responded.

(Trinidad Express) Massy Holdings Ltd yesterday announced that it has agreed to pay US$140.3 million ($954 million) for 100 per cent of IGL Ltd, a company in Jamaica that imports and distributes cooking gas and manufactures industrial gases.

UNITED NATIONS,  (Reuters) – Deputy U.N. chief Amina Mohammed yesterday urged countries to urgently consider Haiti’s request for an international specialized armed force to help restore security in the Caribbean state and alleviate a humanitarian crisis.

(Trinidad Express) agreement between the People’s Republic of China and this country will see the construction of a state-of-the-art Forensic Science Centre in St Joseph.

(Trinidad Guardian) A female school teacher and male security guard have been denied bail after they appeared in court jointly charged with the sexual assault of two 12-year-old female pupils of a private primary school in east Trinidad.

(Trinidad Guardian) Crime in this country “is really out of control and is affecting business in a big way,” regional business tycoon Derek Chin has said.