Regional News

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – A Mexican court has authorized the United States to seize drug lord Rafael Caro Quintero’s assets in Mexico, the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Operations have been shut down at the site where employee Gavin Ramoutar was killed at the Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) Mayo quarry on Wednesday morning.

ASUNCION,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday said it was offering a $5 million reward for information leading to the arrest or conviction of those responsible for the murder of a Paraguayan organized crime prosecutor in May.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuadorean state oil company Petroecuador said yesterday five people were injured in a fire caused by a leak in a pipeline that carries gas to a refinery in the South American country’s Amazon region.

(Trinidad Express) A Glock nine-millimetre pistol was found beneath the body of a fire officer after she and two men were ambushed and shot several times by gunmen in Sangre Gran¬de on Tuesday night.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Chinese automaker BYD Co Ltd 1211.HK002594.SZwill start selling two new electric vehicle models in Brazil this month, betting on favourable political and environmental developments in Latin America’s largest vehicle market, the company said.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The cholera situation in Haiti continues to worsen while COVID-19 cases rose over the past week, the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) said yesterday.

 (Reuters) – Former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner can be extradited from his homeland of Trinidad to the United States to face corruption charges, a London court said today.

 (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic is stepping up deportations of Haitians and is creating a police unit focused on foreigners, fueling tensions between the two Caribbean nations whose relations have for decades been marred by migration disputes.

(Trinidad Express) A man has died at work at the Mayo facility of Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL).

(Trinidad Guardian) Three Chinese businessmen have been freed of money laundering charges due to the failure of the police to properly investigate the source of the hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash they were found in possession of.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba and the United States are making progress in talks aimed at curbing a migration crisis that saw a record number of Cubans arrive at the U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) With a six per cent increase in murders as at November 13 this year, the Andrew Holness-led administration has declared states of public emergency (SOEs) in seven parishes to cauterise the bloodletting across the country that has claimed at least 1,360 lives to date. 

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – A well-known anti-corruption judge in Guatemala resigned yesterday after accusing the judiciary of mismanagement, the latest in a string of resignations that critics blame on President Alejandro Giam-mattei’s efforts to consolidate power.

KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness today declared a state of public emergency in parts of the capital Kingston and in some central and western parishes in an attempt to control rising crime linked to gang violence.

 (Reuters) – Financial regulators in the Bahamas yesterday appointed liquidators to run FTX’s unit in the country, just days after authorities said they were looking for any “criminal misconduct” by the collapsed crypto exchange.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – A dust-up among aides to Brazil’s president-elect over the country’s choice to lead the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is fueling concern that hardcore leftists on his team are eclipsing the influence of more market-friendly moderates.

(Reuters) – Brazil’s democracy prevailed under attacks during elections in October by far-right social media militias that sought to discredit the voting system, the head of the national electoral authority said on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) A Point Fortin businesswoman was tied up, beaten to death and covered with a white sheet inside her home on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) State witness Jehlano “Lano” Romney has been shot and killed in Morvant.