MEXICO CITY/LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru declared Mexico’s ambassador to Lima “persona non grata” and ordered him to leave the country yesterday, Peru’s foreign minister announced, in the latest escalation of tensions between the two nations after Peru ousted Pedro Castillo as president.
(Trinidad Guardian) An elderly woman was found dead on a bed at her Gasparillo home with her face partially melted yesterday morning.
(Reuters) – Canada will impose new sanctions on two former Haiti government ministers accused of corruption and protecting criminal gangs, Ottawa said yesterday, the latest in a string of sanctions against Haitian politicians and business leaders.
(Trinidad Express) Fine Arts dealer Mark Pereira has been murdered. He was shot and killed in Blanchisseuse on Monday night, during what police say was a robbery attempt.
(Trinidad Express) A mother and her infant daughter have been killed in a shooting.
(Reuters) – U.S.-based manufacturer Honeywell International Inc HON.O yesterday said it has agreed to pay about $200 million to settle criminal and civil corruption investigations in the United States and Brazil.
NASSAU, Bahamas/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Sam Bankman-Fried has now decided to agree to be extradited to the United States to face fraud charges, two of his lawyers said yesterday, just hours after one of them told a Bahamas judge the FTX founder wanted to see the U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) Reena Ragoonath-Charles was a blessing who was snatched away too soon and the public was cheated of the opportunity to know her gentle spirit and kind soul.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) imposed a 20-day ultimatum on the Jamaican Government after it failed to respond to the body’s request for information about precautionary measures taken to prevent health and other dangers posed by bauxite mining to residents in several St Ann communities.
(Reuters) – More than a hundred new designs discovered in and around Peru’s ancient Nazca plain and surrounding areas could bring new information to light about the mysterious pre-Columbian artworks that have intrigued scientists and visitors for decades.
(Trinidad Guardian) The floods that wreaked havoc on the country’s infrastructure and cost taxpayers millions of dollars over the last few months have raised debate about the quality of work that has been done by the Ministry of Works and Transport and contractors.
The following is a statement from Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley, on the passing of Francine Edwards, better known as Singing Francine.
(Reuters) – Peruvian President Dina Boluarte, who has said she is leading a transitional government, urged the country’s Con-gress to pass a proposal to bring forward general elections in a news conference from the presidential palace on Saturday.
(The Gleaner) – The St Catherine police are probing a robbery in which millions of dollars’ worth of cooking oil was stolen from a delivery truck on Saturday morning.
(Reuters) – Writer and scholar Nelida Pinon, the first woman to preside over the Brazilian Aca-demy of Letters (ABL), died at age 85 in Lisbon, according to the literary club and Brazilian media reports.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s president condemned yesterday an apparent assassination attempt on a prominent news anchor he has often clashed with, prompting calls for better security for media workers as journalist slayings hit record levels in the country.
(Trinidad Guardian) Calypso artiste Singing Francine (Francine Edwards), has died. According to a release from the Trinbago Unified Calypsonians Organisation (TUCO) Singing Francine passed away early yesterday morning Born in Barbados on February 13, 1943 Edwards came to T&T at a young age.
(Reuters) – The Bahamas should not be blamed for the collapse of bankrupt cryptocurrency platform FTX, the country’s foreign minister said yesterday, following repeated accusations by FTX management of alleged misconduct by the Caribbean nation’s authorities.
(Trinidad Guardian) Clico Trust Corporation Ltd as trustee of the Clico Investment Fund has notified unitholders that in accordance with the provisions of the trust deed, the fund will be terminated on January 2, 2023.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduras and the United Nations yesterday signed an agreement that paves the way for a new international anti-corruption commission in the Central American nation, where widespread graft has fueled violence and spurred mass migration.
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