(Trinidad Guardian) Even as the search for missing cousins Rykeel Dookna (left) and Rikeil Cumberbatch (right) continued yesterday, the family’s fears increased after two decomposing bodies were found floating in the mangrove at Pioneer Drive, Sea Lots, late in the afternoon.
MADRID (Reuters) – Two Spanish nationals arrested in Venezuela had no links to the Spanish secret service and Spain was not involved in any plan to politically destabilize the South American country, a Spanish foreign ministry source said on Sunday.
(Reuters) – Mexican authorities logged seven homicides in the western state of Sinaloa on Friday, the latest violence to plague an area where increasingly frequent shootouts are fueling fears of the possible start of an intracartel war.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A 43-year-old man who was on the St Andrew South police’s wanted list for murder was shot and killed in Spanish Town, St Catherine, on Saturday.
TEGUCIGALPA, Honduras, (Reuters) – An environmental activist who protested mining and hydro-electric projects in northern Honduras in an effort to preserve tropical forests and rivers has been killed, police said today.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Housing Development Corporation (HDC) intends to demolish more than half of the 100 housing units at the troubled Trestrail Development, located off La Resource Road, D’Abadie, due to infrastructure issues that have plagued the development.
MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain has asked Venezuela for information about reports yesterday that two Spaniards, three US citizens and a Czech have been arrested on suspicion of links to an alleged plan to destabilize the South American country, a Spanish foreign ministry source said.
(Jamaica Gleaner) After protracted and sometimes contentious negotiations between the Jamaica Confederation of Trade Unions (JCTU) and the Ministry of Finance and the Public Service on the compensation restructuring exercise, both parties on Thursday inked an agreement which now brings closure to several sticking points that have stalled the deal since last year.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A fuel truck exploded on a road in Haiti’s southern peninsula today, killing at least 16 people and leaving 40 survivors with serious burns, officials said.
(Trinidad Guardian) Acting Commissioner of Police Collis Hazel and Senior Supt Rodhill Kirk have been removed from their posts at the helm of the T&T Police Service’s Tobago Division.
RANCHO PALOS VERDES, Califor-nia/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump pledged yesterday to conduct mass deportations of Haitian immigrants from the Ohio city of Springfield, even though the majority of them are in the United States legally.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The accused Mexican kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada pleaded not guilty to drug trafficking charges yesterday in the same New York courthouse where fellow Sinaloa cartel co-founder Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was convicted five years earlier.
(Trinidad Express) A Cunupia mother and her daughter-in-law perished in a fire yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Procurement Regulator Beverly Khan says whistleblowers are coming forward and her office has received over 60 reports linked to bribery, corruption and bid-rigging in its first year of operation.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Water shortages in Cuba are increasingly flaring tempers, including in capital Havana, as problems mount for hundreds of thousands of residents already ragged from shortfalls in food, fuel and electricity.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Biden administration said yesterday it was imposing U.S. sanctions on 16 allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in response to voter fraud in the country’s election and his government’s ensuing crackdown on the political opposition.
CULIACAN, Mexico, (Reuters) – Authorities in the western Mexican state of Sinaloa yesterday canceled national day celebrations and shut schools on the back of escalating violence stemming from internal Sinaloa Cartel fighting, which has left 12 people dead since Monday.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – South America is being ravaged by fire from Brazil’s Amazon rainforest through the world’s largest wetlands to dry forests in Bolivia, breaking a previous record for the number of blazes seen in a year up to Sept.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil formally received yesterday the return from Denmark of an Indigenous cloak made with 4,000 red feathers of the scarlet ibis bird, a sacred mantle that was taken by Europeans during the 17th century colonial era.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Biden administration said today it was imposing sanctions on 16 allies of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in response to “widespread voter fraud” in the country’s election and his government’s ensuing crackdown on the political opposition.
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