RIO DE JANEIRO, – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday denied that he has any intention of carrying out a coup if he loses October’s election, adding that he rejects a constitutional measure seen as an effort to protect him from crime accusations.
TAIPEI, (Reuters) – Taiwan President Tsai Ing-wen told visiting St. Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves today that she was moved by his determination to visit Taiwan, despite China’s recent military exercises around the self-ruled island.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Gangs killed a former Haitian senator who led a government housing programme on Saturday in an affluent area of Port-au-Prince, the prime minister said on Sunday, amid a spike in violence by criminal groups in the Caribbean nation’s capital.
(Trinidad Guardian) Six days after she went missing, murder convict Kareen Ramlal was found dead in a bushy area off Penal Rock Road on Sunday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Venezuelan Government is hoping to revive cooperation with T&T in the areas of energy and the economy.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Venezuelan Government is hoping to revive cooperation with T&T in the areas of energy and the economy.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Two police officers were charged yesterday in relation to shooting incidents at Rich Plain, Diego Martin, which resulted in the death of PC Clarence Gilkes.
(Jamaica Observer) – The Government has moved to impose heavy punishment on UC Rusal Windalco for the release of “thousands of litres of harmful trade effluent” into the Rio Cobre last week that resulted in a fish kill which affected several species, impacted other aquatic organisms, and posed a danger to domestic water supply for tens of thousands of Jamaicans.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police yesterday arrested five more men in an investigation into the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira in the Amazon rainforest in June.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – A second fuel storage tank near Cuba’s supertanker port in Matanzas exploded this morning following a blaze which burned through the night after lightning hit another tank last evening.
(Reuters) – An oil and gas industry study commissioned by the campaign of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva for the October elections will recommend bolstering Petrobras’ refining capacity, including through the reversal of refinery privatizations, one of the study’s authors told Reuters.
SINGAPORE/MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Adverse weather across top rice suppliers in Asia, including the biggest exporter India, is threatening to reduce the output of the world’s most important food staple and stoke food inflation that is already near record highs.
Washington, DC, 5 August, 2022 (PAHO) – As monkeypox cases continue to rise in several countries of the Americas, Member States of the Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) today held a Special Session of the Directing Council to consider a Resolution to address the outbreak, including supporting equitable access to vaccines for at-risk populations in the region.
(Trinidad Guardian) Digicel T&T Chief Executive Officer Abraham Smith says over the past five months, more than 10,000 customers have lost service because of copper thieves cutting their lines.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government does not support the legalisation of marijuana in this country, Minister of Rural Development and Local Government Faris Al-Rawi has said.
SAN JUAN, (Reuters) – U.S. authorities yesterday announced criminal charges against former Puerto Rico Governor Wanda Vazquez, who was in office from 2019 to 2021, for alleged corruption during her 2020 election campaign.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Efforts by Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro to turn an Independence Day military parade into a political event for his re-election campaign has become a test of the armed forces’ loyalty, retired generals and analysts said.
(Trinidad Guardian) Tributes have been pouring in for a young father who lost his life while trying to save an 11-year-old girl from drowning at the Guapo Beach on Monday.
(Trinidad Express) Labourer Clevon Housand was expected to appear before a magistrate charged with two separate murders which occurred on the same day.
(Trinidad Guardian) The decomposing body of an African male discovered in a forested area off Rincon Road, Las Cuevas, on Monday morning has been unofficially identified as that of Franklyn Abel Clement.
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