Regional News

(Trinidad Express) – Opposition Senator David Nakhid declared to the Senate yesterday that Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is under police investigation and he (Nakhid) was interviewed as a witness.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s government on Saturday moved to discourage the formation of caravans by Venezuelan migrants, saying any who do will not be eligible to enter the United States under a new humanitarian scheme announced this week.

(Trinidad Express) – A criminal suspect who staged a robbery using an imitation gun, paid with his life on Friday night.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. and Canadian military aircraft today delivered tactical and armoured vehicles and other supplies to the Haitian National Police (HNP) to help combat criminal gangs that have worsened a humanitarian crisis in Haiti.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s government and indigenous community leaders reached a deal yesterday, ending months-long talks that lead to dozens of agreements for implementing economic and environmental concessions, which President Guillermo Lasso made to end deadly protests in June.

(Trinidad Express) A criminal suspect who staged a robbery using an imitation gun, paid with his life on Friday night.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Haitians are experiencing catastrophic hunger because of gangsters blockading a major fuel terminal, U.N.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition has agreed to hold primary elections in which it will choose a single candidate for the presidency at the end of June 2023, two sources familiar with the matter said.

CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan migrants stranded on the U.S.-Mexico

GENEVA, (Reuters) – Haiti is facing a humanitarian catastrophe as it struggles with malnutrition, gang violence, inflation and a cholera outbreak, the U.N.’s

(Trinidad Guardian) What started off as a fender bender turned into a fatal attack after a mechanic was beaten and stabbed to death by a group of Spanish-speaking men shortly after midnight yesterday.

 (Reuters) – The Bahamas yesterday outlined the details of temporary price control measures aimed at helping families brave mounting global inflation, saying they would affect 38 key staples, such as eggs, bread and sanitary towels.

(Trinidad Guardian) After being barred from entering the Treasury building to change cheques on Monday because her shoulders were exposed, Arouca caterer Allison Skinner-Bacchus draped herself in a curtain she had in her vehicle and unintentionally reignited the national debate on the dress code for government offices.

MIRATU, Brazil,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The waters of the Xingu River below the Belo Monte hydropower dam, in Brazil’s Amazon, used to flood the river’s forested islands during the rainy season, allowing fish to glide among the trees and gorge on fallen fruit.

(Reuters) – Finance ministers from across Latin America and the Caribbean yesterday called on the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) to look at new finance tools to mitigate the economic shock of climate disasters.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States today said it will boost support for the Haitian police as they battle armed gangs and will speed up delivery of aid to a country suffering from crippling shortages of basic goods due to a gang blockade of a key fuel terminal.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Broadcasting Commission has imposed an immediate ban on the playing of music that, among other things, promotes or glorifies lottery scamming, the use of the illicit drug Molly, and illegal guns.

(Trinidad Express) The Parliament last night approved the notification of the President for the nomination of Erla Harewood Christopher to act as Commissioner of Police.

(Trinidad Express) Attorney General Reginald Armour SC says he is stunned and surprised by the decision of Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard SC to discontinue criminal charges against former attorney general Anand Ramlogan and attorney Gerald Ramdeen.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Air Traffic Control Radar system at the Piarco International Airport was inoperative when the pilot of a JetBlue Airways aircraft was forced to take evasive action to prevent a possible collision with a Caribbean Airlines aircraft on Sunday.