Regional News

(Reuters) – The Nicaraguan government ordered the closure of a radio station known for its opposition against President Daniel Ortega, its director said on Friday.

(Trinidad Express)One man is dead following a shooting incident this morning in One Woodbrook Place.

BUENOS AIRES/CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Argentina on Thursday ordered the seizure of a Venezuelan plane held in Buenos Aires since June at the request of the United States, amid suspicions the aircraft of Iranian origin could have ties to terrorism, local media reported.

(Reuters) – Nicaraguan police have banned a Catholic procession and pilgrimage in the capital of Managua today, citing internal security reasons, the archdiocese said yesterday as the crackdown on the Church intensifies.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The climate resilience minister for the Caribbean island nation of Grenada has been tapped to become the next United Nations climate chief, according to three sources familiar with the selection.

(Trinidad Guardian) Even as condemnation and calls for justice for local sporting hero Anderson Peters continued to grow across Grenada yesterday, Assistant Supt Simon Douglas, of the Royal Grenada Police Force (RGPF), assured a thorough investigation is being conducted.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian business leaders, intellectuals and artists gathered yesterday to read manifestos defending democratic institutions after attacks by President Jair Bolsonaro that have raised fears he could reject the results of October’s presidential election.

(Trinidad Guardian) Three men were murdered in separate incidents in Couva, Point Fortin and Santa Cruz between Wednesday night and yesterday.

CARACAS / BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Venezuela and Colombia yesterday appointed ambassadors to each other’s capitals, moving to rebuild relations between the two countries that have been broken for more than three years.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cubans have been left to endure six- to 18-hour blackouts, and search for ever-scarcer gasoline in the wake of a spectacular blaze that destroyed 40% of Cuba’s main fuel depot and shuttered its only supertanker port.

(Trinidad Express) Blood was spilled in Basseterre, Moruga, yesterday when an 80-year-old man allegedly shot an 82-year-old woman and chopped her son.

(Trinidad Express) The TTPS and the Caribbean has its first female police officer who is internationally qualified as a bomb technician.

(Trinidad Guardian) Labour leaders are expected march through the streets of Port-of-Spain on Friday, as they prepare to protest against the Government’s continued four per cent offer to public sector workers.

MATANZAS, Cuba, (Reuters) – Firefighters yesterday finally overcame what officials described as the worst fire in Cuba’s history that over five days destroyed 40% of the Caribbean island’s main fuel storage facility and caused massive blackouts.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s financial crimes unit, intensifying efforts to catch fraud, has detected some $20 billion in financial operations potentially tied to money laundering over the last 3-1/2 years, the unit’s director said.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – President Jair Bolsonaro is unlikely to contest the outcome of October’s election, Brazil’s top public prosecutor said yesterday, playing down fears of business leaders, diplomats and politicians about the president’s anti-democratic rhetoric.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela will seek to reestablish its military ties with neighbour Colombia, the country’s defense minister said on Tuesday, after years of conflictive relations between the two nations.

(stluciatimes.com) Police Commissioner Milton Desir has acknowledged the need for outside help amid Saint Lucia’s current violent crime wave.

(stluciatimes.com) Police Commissioner Milton Desir has acknowledged the need for outside help amid Saint Lucia’s current violent crime wave.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – A third crude tank caught fire and collapsed at Cuba’s main oil terminal in Matanzas, the province’s governor said yesterday, as an oil spill spread flames from a second tank that caught fire two days earlier in the island’s biggest oil industry accident in decades.