Regional News

(Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition parties are considering a plan to wind up the country’s U.S.-backed

(Reuters) – The Dominican Republic has approved a request by a trading firm to export 20,500 gallons of diesel to Haiti for use principally in hospitals, according to letters seen by Reuters, as gangs continue blocking a key fuel terminal in Haiti.

(Trinidad Express) The dismembered bodies of two men which were found in Cunupia on Monday have been identified.

Three International Financial Institutions (IFIs) have endorsed Jamaica’s new electronic procurement system, a release from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) said yesterday.

LIMA, (Reuters) – The Organization of American States (OAS) will meet today to “consider” Peru’s political situation at the request of President Pedro Castillo, who last week denounced what he called a coup attempt against his government.

NEW YORK/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. prosecutors yesterday charged five Russian nationals for sanctions evasion and other violations related to shipping military technologies bought from U.S.

Bogota,  (Reuters) – Colombia’s congress yesterday approved an $85.5 billion budget for 2023, increasing spending for education, health and agriculture amid promises by leftist President Gustavo Petro to increase support for social programs.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s unexpectedly close presidential race has taken an ugly turn in the final weeks ahead of an Oct.

MEXICO CITY/CIUDAD JUAREZ,  (Reuters) – As hundreds of Venezuelan migrants were expelled to Mexico from the United States under a new policy over the past week, the United Nations voiced concern that shelters were being overwhelmed, leaving families without places to stay in the dangerous border region.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. officials have made clear that allowing oil major Chevron CVX.N

(Reuters) – The Biden administration will provide $2 million to Cuba for emergency relief efforts following Hurricane Ian, the State Department said on Tuesday.

NASSAU, (Reuters) – The Bahamas would send troops or police to Haiti as part of a peacekeeping force if asked to do so by the United Nations or the Caribbean Community, a Bahamian government minister said today, as Haiti’s humanitarian crisis continues to worsen.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. officials have made clear that allowing oil major Chevron CVX.N

(Trinidad Guardian) State-owned Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) has until today to respond to a lawsuit filed by a Florida-based travel service provider that has accused this country’s national carrier for accepting payments from United States citizens to provide transportation for their Cuban relatives to travel between Cuba and Guyana to access US consular services.

(Trinidad Express) The scuttled case against attorneys Anand Ramlogan SC and Gerald Ramdeen has been described as the “biggest scandal in our 60 years as an independent nation” by Chaguanas West Member of Parliament Dinesh Rambally.

(Trinidad Guardian) Shocked and heartbroken over his murder, the family of 29-year-old Randy Joseph is calling for justice.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Right-wing Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro and leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva attacked each others’ records in office yesterday in the first debate of the second round of Brazil’s election.

(Trinidad Express) The men who sprayed bullets into a playground, and killed an innocent 9-year-old boy, used a panel van stolen from a bakery company to carry out the sickening crime.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s Economy Minister Sergio Massa said yesterday the government will give workers tax relief from November by raising the threshold at which income tax is charged, as the country battles with soaring inflation.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Unidentified gunmen opened fire in a bar in the central Mexican city of Irapuato last evening, shooting dead six women and six men, local authorities said, the second mass shooting in the state of Guanajuato in less than a month.