BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva holds a solid polling lead going into Sunday’s election against incumbent Jair Bolsonaro, with a chance of clinching the race in the first round, fresh surveys showed on Saturday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – At least 12 prisoners in Haiti died for lack of food or medicine in the month ending in mid-September, a Haitian official said on Thursday, adding the figure had likely risen since then due to a gang blockade that has created crippling fuel shortages.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Venezuela today released seven jailed Americans, including five oil executives, in exchange for the release of two relatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, U.S.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cubans protested in the streets of Havana for a second night late yesterday over continued blackouts across several neighbourhood, in some of the largest single rallies in the city since widespread anti-government demonstrations last July.
(Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday dismissed Mexico’s $10 billion lawsuit seeking to hold U.S.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – In the aftermath of Thursday’s stabbing death of a student at Kingston Technical High School, a senior law enforcement officer is recommending that administrators collaborate with the police to conduct more unannounced searches at institutions across the country to find potentially deadly weapons and other prohibited items.
(Trinidad Express) – “This budget is a vicious frontal attack on the poor and working classes.
(Jamaican Observer) Supreme Court Judge Justice Vinnette Graham-Allen on Wednesday issued new orders to attorneys involved in the pretrial hearings for Portland businessman Everton “Beachy Stout” McDonald, who is charged with the murder of his first and second wives, after their failure to comply with previous orders caused an adjournment.
(Jamaica Observer) A man said to be a former Jamaica Defence Force soldier was shot and killed on Sunlight Street, off Maxfield Avenue in Kingston 13, on Thursday morning.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados created history today, becoming the first country in the world to be approved for the newly formed International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) Resiliency Sustainability Facility (RSF).
(Barbados Nation) In about three years’ time, the backlog that has long plagued the criminal justice system should be gone.
MANAUS, (Reuters) – Up to 15 people are missing and three are confirmed dead after a bridge collapsed in the northern Brazilian state of Amazonas yesterday, firefighters and local media said.
(Jamaica Observer)Dwight Pennycooke, principal of Wolmer’s Boys’ School, says a snall army of grief counselors and well-wishers have rallied around the school community in the wake of the tragic death of a 15-year-old student on Wednesday morning.
(Jamaica Observer) Prostate cancer continues to be the leading cause of cancer-related deaths among Jamaican adult males; an issue that is highlighted each September when this disease takes centre stage and its effects, treatment and prevention strategies are brought to the fore.
(Trinidad Express) The Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has been given the all clear by the Industrial Court to proceed with its planned restructuring of the organisation.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peruvian indigenous groups were blocking a large river in the country’s Amazon region today in protest over a crude oil spill of an estimated 2,500 barrels in the world’s largest rainforest, the government said.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The International Monetary Fund said today that its staff has agreed on some $293 million in new financing for Barbados, including $183 million via a new trust fund created to help vulnerable middle-income and island countries.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s government agreed on Monday to modify a tax reform proposal under debate in congress and continue to allow oil and mining companies to deduct royalty payments from their taxes in the wake of a wave of industry criticism.
HAVANA, Cuba, (Reuters) – Cuba had slowly begun to restore power across the eastern end of the island, the state electricity provider said early on Wednesday, after Hurricane Ian caused the country’s grid to collapse, turning off the lights for more than 11 million people.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – An estimated 349,000 homes and businesses were still without power in Puerto Rico today after Hurricane Fiona hit on Sept.
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