SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – The head of El Salvador’s police force and a man arrested on charges of a multi-million-dollar embezzlement were among the nine people killed when the military helicopter in which they were travelling crashed, authorities said on Monday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The Belize Defence Force is deploying two senior officers to Jamaica ahead of an assignment to Haiti, it said on Sunday, as part of its commitment to support a long-delayed security mission to help Haitian police fight powerful gangs.
(Reuters) – Police in Guinea-Bissau have seized 2.63 tons of cocaine found on an airplane that arrived from Venezuela in the West African country’s capital, the judicial police said.
ASUNCION, (Reuters) – South America’s Paraguay River, a key thoroughfare for grains, has hit a record low in Paraguay’s capital Asuncion, with water levels depleted by a severe drought upriver in Brazil that has hindered navigation along waterways in the Amazon.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – The head of El Salvador’s police forces and a man accused of a multi-million dollar embezzlement were killed when the military helicopter in which they were travelling crashed on Sunday night, the government said.
MADRID/CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez flew into Spain on Sunday to seek asylum, Madrid said, hours after quitting his country amid a political and diplomatic crisis over July’s disputed election.
LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivia declared a national emergency due to raging forest fires the country’s defense ministry announced on Saturday.
CARACAS/MADRID, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition presidential candidate Edmundo Gonzalez left for Spain overnight and was seeking asylum, officials said today, amid a mounting political and diplomatic crisis over the disputed results of July’s election.
(Trinidad Express) Stork Technical Services T&T Ltd has informed staff that, due to a “bleak future financial outlook”, it is considering a phased shutdown of its operations, beginning this month and to be completed by the end of the year, potentially leaving 389 employees without jobs.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivia declared a national emergency due to raging forest fires the country’s defense ministry announced yesterday.
BRASILIA/CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela revoked Brazil’s authorization to represent Argentine interests in the country, including administering the embassy where six opposition figures are sheltering, the Venezuelan government said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Seconds after he walked out a parlour to head home, avid cricketer and father of two Hakim Mitchell was caught in a deadly ambush of another man in Malick on Thursday night.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday fired Human Rights Minister Silvio Almeida following accusations that he sexually harassed several women, including another cabinet minister.
(Trinidad Express) The drama continued at MovieTowne yesterday as security hired by the Port of Spain Infrastructure Company (POSINCO) threatened to use force against the Trinbago Commercial Development Company Limited (TCDC) security if they closed the doors of the administrative office.
BRASILIA/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Center for Research and Prevention of Aeronautical Accidents (Cenipa) said yesterday that a preliminary report into the August crash of a Voepass airliner showed icing detectors had been activated on the ATR aircraft.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian musician Sergio Mendes, who brought bossa nova to international audiences in the 1960s, died on Friday at the age of 83 in Los Angeles, his family said.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Slimy, green seaweed floats in water-filled beakers, buckets and bins in the University of Santiago’s labs, algae which scientists in the Chilean capital are trying to turn into an efficient power source.
(Trinidad Express) Killers came by sea to kill three men on the Icacos Beach in Cedros before daybreak yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government is failing citizens in the fight against dengue, says St Augustine MP Khadijah Ameen.
(Trinidad Guardian) Veteran musician, band leader Roy Cape has died. He was 82.
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