LONDON, (Reuters) – Ecuador is expected to deal quickly with Anglo-French oil company Perenco’s efforts to enforce a multi-million dollar award payment as delaying could cast a shadow over international bond payments down the line, analysts said.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s attorney general’s office is investigating former President Enrique Pena Nieto for alleged money laundering, illicit enrichment, and illegal international transfers, two sources familiar with the matter told Reuters on Tuesday.
(Reuters) – The Nicaraguan government ordered the closure yesterday of seven Catholic radio stations linked to a bishop who has been critical of the country’s president, Daniel Ortega.
(Trinidad Express) An innocent woman was shot as a result of the police response to a frightening attack planned by unknown men on officers of the Besson Street Police Station on Sunday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Before two gunmen shot him dead, Danny Mehalal cried out to his girlfriend urging her to run, shortly before the gunmen fired multiple bullets at him from an AK-47 rifle.
(Trinidad Guardian) The decomposing body of an African male discovered in a forested area off Rincon Road, Las Cuevas, yesterday morning has been unofficially identified as that of Franklyn Abel Clement.
(Trinidad Express) Lord Nelson’s still got it. The venerable calypsonian, real name Robert Nelson, celebrated his 91st year on Earth with a clock-turning, hip-shaking, chest-exposing performance on Saturday evening.
(Trinidad Guardian) Diego Martin resident Akili Charles will be remembered by many people for different reasons.
(Trinidad Guardian) All 426 management positions at the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) will be made redundant in the first phase of the transformation plan currently being implemented at the cash-strapped public utility.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Cuban capital of Havana will begin electricity blackouts in August, has canceled carnival and is taking other measures as the country’s energy crisis worsens, state media reported yesterday.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalan authorities arrested a well-known local journalist on accusations of money laundering and blackmail, according to a prosecutor in charge of the case, a move that has sparked outrage among human rights activists.
(Trinidad Express) – A suspected gang leader was among three people who were shot and killed in separate incidents in Diego Martin, Laventille and Port of Spain between Friday night and Saturday morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley remains in isolation, in keeping with the current COVID-19 protocols, and is being monitored by his physicians, as he rides out a second infection with COVID-19.
(Barbados Nation) Barbadian academic and prominent social scientist in Canada, Professor Myrna Lashley, wants her birthplace to legalise prostitution, saying sex workers “need to be protected just like everyone else”.
(Trinidad Guardian) A love triangle involving an estranged couple yesterday ended in tragedy, after the wife’s younger lover entered her marital home at Las Cuevas and killed them both before he fled into the forest.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Court of Appeal’s landmark judgment on the ability of judges to consider bail for persons charged with murder has been upheld.
LONDON, (Reuters) – London’s High Court has rejected President Nicolas Maduro’ s latest efforts to gain control of more than $1 billion of Venezuela’s gold reserves stored in the Bank of England’s underground vaults in London.
(Trinidad Express) A Trinidadian living in Florida has pleaded guilty to hiring a hitman to kill his ex-girlfriend’s fiancé.
(Trinidad Guardian) The board of the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) has been mandated by Cabinet to immediately begin the execution of a transformation plan for WASA, which will start with the cutting of 213 members of the executive team, followed by cuts in an unknown number of WASA staff.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A string of recent arms-trafficking scandals in Haiti, including the discovery of weapons in a shipping container labeled as church donations, has ignited anger over a steady flow of U.S.
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