MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican authorities yesterday outlined an 11-month plan to search for and recover the bodies of 10 coal miners trapped underground a month ago, a quiet admission that they are giving up on ambitions of rescuing the men alive.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro is calling supporters to attend street rallies alongside Independence Day military parades tomorrow, a showing that may gauge support for the far-right leader’s attacks on democratic institutions ahead of an October election.
(Trinidad Express) The nation’s schools were all but abandoned by mid-morning yesterday, the first day of the new academic year, as thousands of teachers heeded their union’s call to “rest and reflect” on the Government’s four per cent wage increase offer.
(Trinidad Express) The 2022 murder toll has reached 400 and climbing.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chileans overwhelmingly voted against a proposed new constitution on Sunday, rejecting what would have been one of the world’s most progressive charters.
(Trinidad Express) For many years, the archives and library of Trinidad and Tobago’s first prime minister, Dr Eric Williams, housed at The University of the West Indies’ Alma Jordan Library, has been a key resource for many academic papers, theses, lectures and books.
(Trinidad Guardian) Dr Slinger Francisco known around the world as the Mighty Sparrow—who was baptised Saturday in Brooklyn, New York —will now be using his gift of singing for the Seventh Day Adventist Church and the Glory of God according to Seventh Day Adventist Pastor Clive Dottin.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian electoral authorities yesterday morning carried out a search and seizure warrant at the home of Sergio Moro, a former judge who led one of Brazil’s biggest corruption probes, a former justice minister and current Senate candidate.
(Trinidad Guardian) Junior Dexter Peters, 51, was yesterday denied bail when he appeared virtually before a Port-of-Spain magistrate charged with two offences arising out of claims of sexual abuse at the St Dominic’s Children’s Home 25 years ago.
(Trinidad Guardian) TriniBad artiste Kalonji Arthur who was shot multiple times in the car park of the Brix Autograph Collection Hotel in St Ann’s on Friday underwent emergency surgery the same day after the shooting but is still in a serious condition.
(Trinidad Express) Police suspect the murder of a 27-year-old woman on Independence Day may have been drug-related and that she was not the initial target.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Argentines descended on the capital’s main plaza yesterday in a show of solidarity against a shocking assassination attempt on the country’s vice president a day earlier, which triggered an outpouring of support in a country gripped by deep political polarization and economic crisis.
(Trinidad Guardian) A brazen shooting in the carpark of the luxury Brix Autograph Hotel in St Ann’s yesterday left one woman dead and a TriniBad artiste nursing multiple gunshot wounds.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba slammed U.S. funding for “democracy promotion” programmes as interventionist and illegal, aimed at toppling the government just as the island nation faces its worst economic crisis in decades, the country’s Vice Foreign Minister said on Friday.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner escaped unharmed yesterday after a man fired a loaded gun at her that failed to go off inches from her head.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Foreign and CARICOM Affairs, Dr Amery Browne and the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, Jamaica Kamina Johnson Smith have signed a Memorandum of Under-standing to establish a trade complaints mechanism between T&T and Jamaica in an effort to foster better relations.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador yesterday began a year-long regularization process for thousands of Venezuelan migrants who are undocumented or lack visas or a legal right to stay in the country.
(Reuters) – Men with painted faces and masks pelted each other with rags drenched in gasoline and rolled into tight flaming balls, as the town of Nejapa in El Salvador celebrated its annual fireball festival.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia will give properties confiscated from drug trafficking groups and valued at some $4.9 billion to farmers, women’s organizations, youth collectives and universities, leftist President Gustavo Petro said yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government has intensified its plan to put 15,000 hectares of land under Irish potato cultivation and to increase onion production in the next planting season.
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