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Cartes of “significant corruption” and of obstructing a cross-border criminal investigation.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors in Brazil yesterday charged three men for the murder of British journalist Dom Phillips and indigenous expert Bruno Pereira, a crime that drew widespread attention to increasing lawlessness in the Amazon rainforest under the government of President Jair Bolsonaro.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba’s National Assembly yesterday approved a sweeping update of its family law which opens the door to allowing gay marriage, greater women’s rights, and increased protections for children, the elderly and other family members.

(Trinidad Guardian) Six police officers accused of murdering three friends in Moruga in 2011 have failed in their bid to be granted bail pending their eventual trial.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – At least 18 people died yesterday during a major police raid in a dense warren of Rio de Janeiro slums, state military police said, in the latest bloody confrontation in Brazil’s second-largest city.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former attorney general Anand Ramlogan, SC, is challenging the decision of a judge to grant police officers warrants to wiretap his phones as part of their investigation into witness tampering allegations against him.

(Trinidad Guardian) Former attorney general Anand Ramlogan, SC, is challenging the decision of a judge to grant police officers warrants to wiretap his phones as part of their investigation into witness tampering allegations against him.

SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – Costa Rica will receive more than US$400 million in funding for its national decarbonization plan, the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) said in a statement yesterday.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department yesterday added dozens of current and former officials, lawmakers, judges and business people from Central America to a list that names those the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Monday night launched a scathing attack on a number of senior attorneys who she identified as having spoken in defence of Attorney General Reginald Armour.

(Trinidad Guardian) Eight police officers have been charged with murder. Among the eight charged are a sergeant and a Corporal.

(Trinidad Guardian) An El Socorro, San Juan businessman who shot and killed two bandits and injured a third during a home invasion yesterday, is not expected to face any consequences after he discharged his licensed firearm during the incident, according to senior police.

MATANZAS, Cuba,  (Reuters) – A tanker carrying some 700,000 barrels of Russian fuel oil is delivering its cargo at a Cuban terminal, Refinitiv Eikon vessel tracking data showed, a move to ease the fuel scarcity that has forced power cuts and rationing in the island.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – President Jair Bolsonaro invited the diplomatic corps yesterday to hear his charges that Brazil’s election system was open to fraud ahead of October elections in which he is trailing in a bid for a second term.

Following protests against his government’s policies Surinamese President Chandrikapersad Santokhi yesterday cancelled a planned trip to Paraguay where he was expected to participate in the Mercosur summit, according to the waterkant.net

MATANZAS, Cuba,  (Reuters) – A tanker carrying some 700,000 barrels of Russian fuel oil is delivering its cargo at a Cuban terminal, Refinitiv Eikon vessel tracking data showed, a move to ease the fuel scarcity that has forced power cuts and rationing in the island.

 (Trinidad Express) Gunmen opened fire on a group walking along the roadway in Curepe on Sunday, killing a 23-year-old Venezuelan woman.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two Venezuelan girls, who said they were part of a group which included 12 others, were rescued after Venezuelan activist Yesenia Gonzales reached out to the TTPS for help on the weekend after assisting the teen girls aged 16 and 17 – one of whom had been kidnapped six months ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) Passengers flying with Caribbean Airlines are no longer required to wear masks while travelling with the airline.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados has recorded its first confirmed case of monkeypox.