QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s oil production has fallen by more than half due to road blockades and vandalism connected to nearly two weeks of anti-government protests, the energy ministry said yesteday.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he expects to announce former Defense Minister Walter Braga Netto as his running mate for this year’s election in the next few days.
(Trinidad Express) The Office of Disaster Preparedness and Management (ODPM) is advising the national community to prepare for adverse weather conditions, due to the progress of a strong Tropical Wave in the Atlantic that has the potential to form into a Tropical Depression over the next 48-72 hours.
(Trinidad Guardian) Amid the recent price increases in wheat flour, the University of the West Indies, St Augustine will be offering pumpkin and green banana flour as alternatives from September.
(Trinidad Guardian) The search for a missing Princes Town teenager was called off on Saturday after his bullet-riddled body was found spreadeagled behind an abandoned excavator in Princes Town around noon.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Tragedy has struck in Gasparillo after a two-storey house went up in flames, killing a pregnant mother, a five-year-old girl and an elderly grandmother.
(Trinidad Guardian) – The actions of retired Lance Corporal Ian Gross, which culminated in him ending his own life, have left his family puzzled.
(Trinidad Guardian) – The Ministry of Health has recorded 3 additional COVID-related deaths.
The Commonwealth has admitted Gabon and Togo as its 55th and 56th members respectively.
(Trinidad Express) A five-year-old girl was among three people who died in an early morning fire in Gasparillo today.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – A Cuban court sentenced a leading artist-dissident to nine years in jail yesterday and another to five years in a high profile case that human rights groups branded a “farce” but that Cuban state media said was a fair trial over “common crimes.”
(Trinidad Guardian) Leader of Grenada’s New National Party and Opposition Leader-elect Dr Keith Mitchell has congratulated Prime Minister-elect Dickon Mitchell on his victory at the polls following the general elections of June 23, 2022.
KIGALI, (Reuters) – Commonwealth members yesterday voted to keep Patricia Scotland as secretary-general of the 54-nation club after some members including Britain tried to oust her, two sources told Reuters after a behind-closed-doors vote.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s top courts are stepping up meetings with military commanders to ease tensions and reaffirm trust in the democratic process, four senior judiciary sources said, as President Jair Bolsonaro stirs doubt about the integrity of this year’s elections.
National Democratic Congress leader Dickon Mitchell yesterday defeated Dr Keith Mitchell’s New National Party (NNP) to become Grenada’s Prime Minister-designate.
(Trinidad Guardian) In two weeks, the country will be told how the Government intends to help citizens cope with the increase in flour prices.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The largest-known bacterium – a vermicelli-shaped organism that was discovered in shallow mangrove swamps in the Caribbean and is big enough to be seen with the naked eye – is redefining what is possible for bacteria, Earth’s most ancient life form.
(Trinidad Guardian) The reputed leader of the Unruly Isis gang in Chaguanas has been shot and killed.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Thousands of indigenous protesters held a peaceful march through Ecuador’s capital, Quito, yesterday to demand that President Guillermo Lasso address price rises that have ignited 10 days of demonstrations across the country.
(Trinidad Express) A man died aboard a Caribbean Airlines flight on Tuesday that was en route from New York, United States to Trinidad.
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