PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Gun battles between rival gangs have killed more than 50 people since Friday near Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, a local mayor said yesterday, amid a continuing escalation of violence gripping the Caribbean nation.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said yesterday that a deal was close with Moscow to buy much cheaper diesel from Russia, in what would appear to be the latest tangible benefit stemming from his friendly relationship with President Vladimir Putin.
(Trinidad Express) Gunfire rang out last night in Harmony Hall in Gasparillo where two men were killed.
(Trinidad Guardian) Making ends meet was harrowing for many during the pandemic as results from a recently released survey found that 50 per cent of respondents were not satisfied with their financial situation and 27 per cent said they had too much debt to deal with.
PUYO, Ecuador, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When Itaya Andy studied community therapy years ago at Ecuador’s Universidad Estatal Amazonica (Amazonian State University), she realized there were hardly any programs designed to support indigenous women like herself.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Global mining giant BHP Group BHPB.LBHP.AX has lost an appeal in a London court seeking to block a 5 billion pound-plus ($6 billion-plus) lawsuit by 200,000 Brazilians over a 2015 dam failure that triggered Brazil’s worst environmental disaster.
(Trinidad Express) Legendary calypsonian the Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco) feels “wonderful” about his 87th birthday today.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A local official from Brazil’s leftist opposition Workers’ Party (PT) was shot dead yesterday by a federal prison guard shouting support for right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro, according to a state civil police report and a witness.
CUCUTA, Colombia/ SAN ANTONIO, Venezuela (Reuters) – Colombia’s leftist president-elect, Gustavo Petro, pledged on the campaign trail to end neighbouring Venezuela’s isolation, normalize relations with the socialist government in Caracas, and get trade flowing.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The monkeypox patient who fled the May Pen Hospital in Clarendon early Saturday afternoon is back in isolation.
(Trinidad Express) Legendary calypsonian the Mighty Sparrow (Slinger Francisco) feels “wonderful” about his 87th birthday today.
(Trinidad Express) – The Government will be pumping financial resources into tackling the social root of what is driving criminality in the nation’s children, says Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.
(Barbados Nation) – Attorney General Dale Marshall says there is no immediate fix to the gun-related crime in Barbados and stressed that national public safety is everyone’s responsibility.
WASHINGTON/HAVANA, (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department announced visa restrictions yesterday against 28 Cuban officials that it said were implicated in a crackdown on largely peaceful protests in Cuba nearly one year ago.
MANAUS, Brazil, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest reached a record high for the first six months of the year, as an area five times the size of New York City was destroyed, preliminary government data showed yesterday.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Four employees from U.S Customs and Border Protection (CBP) have been referred for disciplinary review over their treatment of Haitian migrants who they sought to push back across the Rio Grande using horses last September, CBP officials said on Friday as the agency released a more than 500-page report on a widely filmed and photographed incident.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police yesterday carried out an operation against an alleged criminal gang that it said used crypto tokens to launder money made from illegal gold mining.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The head of Mexico’s Financial Intelli-gence Unit (UIF) yesterday said it has been investigating millions of dollars’ worth of money transfers involving former President Enrique Pena Nieto, in which he may have received “economic benefits.”
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti today commemorates the one-year anniversary of the murder of President Jovenel Moise, whose killing created a power vacuum and allowed the country’s gangs to expand their territory and even take over the headquarters of the nation’s courts.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil is at risk of facing a more serious incident than the Jan.
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