Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley addressed the Summit of the Americas in Los Angeles on Friday and expressed hope that respect and regard would be afforded to all states within the hemisphere, including Cuba and Venezuela.

(Trinidad Guardian) – China’s Ambassador to Trinidad and Tobago Fang Qiu has confirmed two Chinese companies will become tenants at the Phoenix Park Industrial Estate.

(Reuters) – Iran and Venezuela, oil producers grappling with crippling U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Three more people have lost their lives to COVID-19, according to the latest update from the Ministry of Health.

LA PAZ,  (Reuters) – A Bolivian court found former President Jeanine Anez guilty yesterday of orchestrating a coup that brought her to power during a 2019 political crisis.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and fellow leaders from the Western Hemisphere yesterday rolled out a new set of measures to confront the regional migration crisis, seeking to salvage an Americas summit roiled by division.

ATALAIA DO NORTE, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Brazilian search teams have found “apparently human” remains in the river where a British journalist was last seen in the Amazon rainforest, police said yesterday, in what may be the biggest break yet for the five-day investigation.

(Trinidad Express) In full view of passing motorists and pedestrians in San Juan yesterday, a gunman opened fire, killing a 47-year-old mother of two while seriously injuring a man who was next to her.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – Latin American leaders rebuked U.S. President Joe Biden face-to-face yesterday over his exclusion of Cuba, Venezuela and Nicaragua from an Americas summit he is hosting, underscoring the challenges he faces to reassert leadership in the region.

(Trinidad Express) A gunshot victim being taken to hospital by a friend was intercepted by four men pretending to be police officers this morning.

WASHINGTON/HAVANA,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday moved to lift some Trumpera restrictions on remittances and travel to Cuba even as it fended off criticism for blocking the Communist run island and long-time foe from attending a regional summit this week.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – Britain yesterday said it had agreed a comprehensive plan to reform the governance of the British Virgin Islands without direct rule from London at this stage after an official report found systemic dishonesty in the British overseas territory.

LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – The head of a Mexico-based evangelical megachurch that claims about 5 million followers worldwide was sentenced yesterday in a Los Angeles courtroom to 16 years and eight months in prison for sexually abusing three girls.

BUENOS AIRES/LIMA/LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – China has widened the gap on the United States in trade terms in large swathes of Latin America since U.S.

LOS ANGELES,  (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken yesterday criticized efforts to suppress press freedom in several Latin American countries and said the United States seeks to increase media protection in the region with the most murders of journalists.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ health care sector has been bolstered with the arrival of 70 Cuban medical practitioners, including four specialised doctors.

LOS ANGELES/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Vice President Kamala Harris has pooled $3.2 billion in corporate pledges aimed at addressing some of the economic factors driving migration from Central America, her office said yesterday, lending impetus to measures to be discussed at the Summit of the Americas this week.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – A sixth person is suspected in the murder last month of a Paraguayan prosecutor vacationing in Colombia, the head of Colombia’s national police said on Tuesday, adding a Brazilian gang initially planned to carry out the murder in Paraguay.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian naval officials conducting underwater monitoring of the long-sunken San Jose galleon have discovered two other historical shipwrecks nearby, President Ivan Duque said yesterday.

SANTO DOMINGO,  (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic’s environment minister, Orlando Jorge Mera, was shot dead in his office yesterday, authorities said.