Regional News

(Barbados Nation) Ex-Government Minister Donville Inniss has lost an appeal to overturn a U.S.

(Reuters) – The United Nations yesterday called for the creation of a “humanitarian corridor” in Haiti that would allow the distribution of fuel amid dire shortages created by a gang blockade of the country’s principal fuel terminal.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile’s environmental regulator announced yesterday four charges against Canadian-owned Lundin copper mine for a sinkhole that appeared at the site of one of its mines the north of the country in late July.

(Trinidad Guardian) Members of the T&T Fire Service Search and Rescue team, the Hunters Search and Rescue team, T&T Police Service and villagers were on Wednesday night trying to locate a farmer who was feared dead after she was washed away by floodwaters while attempting to cross a ravine in Surrey Village, Lopinot.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry yesterday called on the international community to help the Caribbean nation, as a gang blockade of a key fuel terminal has created widespread shortages of goods including drinking water.

(Trinidad Guardian) Less developed Caricom countries are being asked to consider appealing to oil-rich Guyana to take on part of the role which T&T assumed in 2007 when it was felt T&T was flush with money, and it could share the money with T&T’s Caricom brothers.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador denied yesterday that his administration spied on journalists or opponents after a report that the phones of at least three people investigating human rights abuses were infected with Pegasus spyware.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Police in Haiti fired tear gas yesterday at thousands of protesters marching in the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince, against Prime Minister Ariel Henry’s government and its handling of crippling fuel shortages and soaring prices.

(Trinidad Guardian) It was a traumatic morning for a Mayaro family on Monday, after armed bandits stormed their home.

(Trinidad Express) An autopsy on the body of the University of the West Indies employee Marissa Edwards found that she died after she suffered blunt force trauma and was strangled with a length of copper wire.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombian President Gustavo Petro and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken said yesterday they discussed stepping up the interception of narcotics at sea and enhanced intelligence sharing on drug trafficking.

PONCE, Puerto Rico, (Reuters) – President Joe Biden yesterday pledged more than $60 million in aid to help U.S.

(Trinidad Express) The mother of nine-month-old Salileen Ramsaroop has been charged with manslaughter.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – An estimated 120,000 homes and businesses were still without power in Puerto Rico today, two weeks after Hurricane Fiona caused an island-wide outage for its 3.3 million people.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The second round of Brazil’s presidential election campaign kicked off today after far-right President Jair Bolsonaro outperformed polling and robbed leftist ex-president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of outright victory in the first round of voting.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti yesterday said at least seven people have died of cholera in a surprise return of the disease that comes as the nation is paralyzed by a gang blockade that has triggered shortages of fuel and clean drinking water.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Secretary of State Antony Blinken heads to Latin America today to reassert Washington’s commitment to the region and meet with three new leftist leaders, amid concerns that neglect of the hemisphere has let China make economic inroads.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Phones of at least three human rights investigators in Mexico were infected with Pegasus during the term of President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador despite his government’s assertions that it would stop using the controversial spyware, a report yesterday found.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s presidential election will be settled in a second-round runoff vote on Oct.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Venezuela on Saturday freed seven Americans, including five oil executives, in exchange for two relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro jailed in the United States on drug convictions, U.S.