PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Thousands of Haitians today joined rallies around the Caribbean country to protest rampant crime and soaring consumer prices as its central bank reported that inflation had hit a 10-year high.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The heart of Portuguese monarch Dom Pedro I, who declared Brazilian independence from Portugal 200 years ago and was named “emperor” of Brazil, arrived from Portugal yesterday and will be put on display as part of independence anniversary celebrations.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Thousands of Haitians today joined rallies around the Caribbean country to protest rampant crime and soaring consumer prices as its central bank reported that inflation had hit a 10-year high.
(Trinidad Guardian) Killings in Port-of-Spain continued over the weekend as Jason “Pompey” Purcell was gunned down on Saturday night.
(Trinidad Guardian) Three weeks before strangling seven-year-old McKenzie Hope Rechier, the 25-year-old suspect confided in a neighbour that she planned to kill the child and herself.
(Trinidad Express) The bound and bullet-riddled bodies of two men were found in Tucker Valley, Chaguaramas, on Friday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Seven-year-old McKenzie Hope Rechia is dead after being allegedly strangled by a close female relative at her home in Palo Seco, yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) As the Caribbean Community (Caricom) pushes ahead with its target of reducing its US$5 billion food import bill by 25 per cent by 2025, President of Suriname Chandrikapersad Santokhi yesterday announced that his country will make land available for agricultural production, fostering partnerships between Surinamese and other Caribbean producers and processors.
(Reuters) – Nicaragua’s Rolando Alvarez, Bishop of Matagalpa and one of the most influential leaders of the country’s Catholic Church, is under house arrest in the capital Managua after he was removed from the northern diocese in a pre-dawn raid, police said yesterday.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba will send nearly 500 doctors to the Calabria region of southern Italy, Cuban state media reported this week, part of a broader programme that sends surplus medics from the communist-run island to countries in need.
(Trinidad Express) Police shot and killed a Belmont man at his home yesterday, when he reportedly pointed a gun at them.
(Trinidad Guardian) Six scrap iron workers have been arrested overnight, as vanloads of protesters used the cover of darkness to block parts of Claxton Bay and environs.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – This year will be the deadliest on record for journalists in Mexico, with 18 killed so far, human rights organization Article 19 said in a report yesterday.
ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Paraguayan Vice President Hugo Velazquez yesterday said he will not resign until he has details of U.S.
(Trinidad Express) A shooting in Arima on Wednesday night has left a coastguardsman injured, and a 26-year-old woman dead.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Spain’s Aena yesterday won the rights to operate the largest block of airports auctioned by Brazil’s government for 2.45 billion reais ($471.61 million).
MIAMI, (Reuters) – U.S. authorities have seen a spike in weapons smuggling to Haiti and the Caribbean in recent months, officials said yesterday, promising to boost efforts to combat the trade that is fueling rampant gang violence in Haiti and rising crime in the region.
(Trinidad Guardian) Pandemonium broke out in Morvant on Tuesday evening when two gunmen opened fire on a crowded basketball court, leaving two children, aged 9 and 11, seriously injured, with the nine-year-old boy fighting for his life at hospital after being shot in the head.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police yesterday accused President Jair Bolsonaro of discouraging mask use during the pandemic and falsely suggesting that people who got vaccinated against COVID-19 ran the risk of contracting AIDS.
(Trinidad Guardian) A landslide triggered a chain of events that knocked out power to thousands of homes across Trinidad on Tuesday night and then again yesterday morning.
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