Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A 48-year-old Gasparillo woman who surrendered to homicide detectives on Wednesday was charged on Friday with the October 15th killing of her neighbour Randy Joseph, 29.

NASSAU, Bahamas, (Reuters) – The collapse of cryptocurrency exchange FTX is the subject of scrutiny from government investigators in the Bahamas, who are looking at whether any “criminal misconduct occurred,” the Royal Bahamas Police said yesterday.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands took to the streets in Mexico yesterday to protest President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s plan to overhaul the country’s electoral commission INE in what they fear would concentrate power in the hands of the government.

(Trinidad Guardian) Twenty-five-year-old Curtis “Faddy” Smith, of Diego Martin, was gunned down outside Starbucks, Sun Plaza, Munroe Road, Chaguanas, yesterday.

(Barbados Nation) – A coalition of opposition political parties and civil society organisations, Friday said they planned to stage peaceful protests from this Thursday to stop the December 6 snap general election, insisting that no elections should be held in Dominica without electoral reform.

(Barbados Nation) – The UN’s main human rights agency is calling on the Dominican Republic to halt the deportations of Haitian migrants at a time of unrest in their country.

(Reuters) – Five countries – Argentina, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico, Brazil and Chile – nominated candidates for president of the Inter-American Development Bank ahead of a Nov.

(Trinidad Guardian) With hundreds of fields of fresh produce destroyed by flooding since the start of the rainy season, farmers are sounding the alarm that food prices will continue to rise.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – There is growing investor pessimism that Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva will govern with fiscal discipline as the country’s central bank chief likened a market selloff to a “Liz Truss moment for Brazil.”

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Cuba has agreed for the first time since the pandemic to accept U.S.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – The three commanders of Brazil’s armed forces released a joint statement yesterday in which they said that the solutions to Brazil’s disputes must come from the democratic rule of law, while also affirming the right to peaceful protest.

 (Reuters) – FTX is scrambling to raise about $9.4 billion from investors and rivals, a source said yesterday, as Chief Executive Sam Bankman-Fried urgently seeks to save the cryptocurrency exchange that has been buffeted by a rush of customer withdrawals.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President-elect Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s brief honeymoon with financial markets looked finished yesterday, as he pushed for more room to grow social spending without setting long-term fiscal rules or naming his top economic policymakers.

 (Trinidad Guardian) In what appears to be a major coup for the Keith Rowley administration, finally the Iron and Steel Plant at the Point Lisas Industrial Estate is set to restart production under new owners and could lead to the creation of hundreds of high paying jobs.

LIMA, (Reuters) – The opposition-dominated Peruvian Congress yesterday refused to hold a confidence vote in Prime Minister Anibal Torres, who had challenged the legislative body to do such as part of rising tensions between state powers in the Andean nation.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Nicole reached hurricane force as it plowed into The Bahamas yesterday, lashing the Caribbean archipelago nation with howling winds and raging surf while churning ever closer to Florida’s Atlantic shoreline.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – China and El Salvador will begin free trade talks, the Chinese ambassador to the country and Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele said during an event in El Salvador yesterday.

MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Mexico has nominated Mexican central bank board member Gerardo Esquivel for the presidency of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), four people familiar with the matter said yesterday.

 (Trinidad Express) The principal of Tranquillity Government Secondary School in Port of Spain was dragged to the ground as she attempted to break up a brawl among several female pupils of the school on Friday.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – A Panama judge yesterday called two former presidents, as well as a slate of other high-profile figures, to trial over money-laundering related to the Odebrecht bribery probe, a sweeping corruption investigation which has rippled across Latin America.