LIMA, (Reuters) – Peruvian ex-President Pedro Castillo’s prison stay was extended by 18 months amid a deepening diplomatic spat with left-leaning countries in the region that oppose his removal as ongoing blockages threaten logistics at key copper mines.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s government ordered Canada’s First Quantum Minerals FM.TO
(Trinidad Guardian) A 28-year-old prisoner of the Maximum Security Prison (MSP), Port-of-Spain (PoS), appeared virtually today before the Tunapuna Magistrates’ Court, charged with the December 2020 killing of Dhanraj Manan, 50.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has confirmed that it has approved a US$80 million loan to boost the efficiency, quality, sustainability, and resilience of Trinidad and Tobago’s drinking water supply and water security.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T’s distribution conglomerate, Massy Holdings has acquired US grocery store chain Rowe’s IGA Supermarket for US$47 million.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru announced a nationwide state of emergency yesterday, granting police special powers and limiting freedoms including the right to assembly, after a week of fiery protests that have left at least eight dead.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prof Michelle Mycoo, Professor of Urban and Regional Planning at The University of the West Indies (UWI), St Augustine says there are over 396 squatter sites located on state lands in T&T.
(Trinidad Guardian) Chaguanas Mayor Faaiq Mohammed has expressed outrage at yesterday’s murder of pensioner Moonan Hardeo during a home invasion.
(Reuters) – Barbados’s High Court has ruled the criminalization of gay sex is unconstitutional, making the country the third in the Caribbean to overthrow such laws this year.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s armed forces will take control of the “protection” of key infrastructure, its defense minister said Tuesday, as protests that have led to at least six deaths continue across the country following the ousting of its former president.
NASSAU, Bahamas/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A Bahamian judge denied FTX founder Sam Bankman-Fried bail yesterday, hours after U.S.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s next justice minister yesterday vowed accountability for supporters of far-right President Jair Bolsonaro who burned buses and attacked police on the day authorities certified the victory of leftist President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 52-year-old businessman was fatally shot by bandits as he was delivering goods at Queen’s Avenue, Three B’s Drive, Piarco North Bank Road, Piarco, yesterday afternoon.
(Trinidad Guardian) The owner of Benefit the People Food Supermarket in San Juan was gunned down on Sunday afternoon in Wallerfield.
(Trinidad Guardian) A relative of acting Police Commissioner McDonald Jacob is one of two suspects arrested minutes after a former police officer was shot dead as he was leaving his Penal home yesterday morning.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Supporters of far-right Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday attempted to invade the federal police headquarters in the capital Brasilia, in a flash of post-election violence on the day the president’s electoral defeat was certified.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s new president offered lawmakers a plan to bring elections forward by two years yesterday, after the ouster of her predecessor last week sparked protests that have left at least seven dead.
The air transportation woes affecting the Eastern Caribbean since LIAT’s collapse, will be getting closer attention from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) as the Board of Directors has approved a technical assistance grant towards developing interim arrangements to address the crisis.
(Trinidad Guardian) Gunmen opened fire near a gas station at King’s Wharf, San Fernando, on Saturday night, killing two men and injuring another in what police believe to be a drug-related hit.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Two teens were killed and four people injured in Peru yesterday during protests demanding the country hold general elections following the ouster of former President Pedro Castillo, police and local authorities said.
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