Construction is advancing steadily in Dominica on a 10-megawatt geothermal power plant to become the second in the OECS and the first in CARICOM, with a targeted completion date of Christmas Day–December 25, 2025.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian crop agency Conab, which plans to build up grain stocks in a bid to rein in rising food inflation, is seeking to change rules governing procurement contracts, agency head Edegar Pretto said yesterday.
The Council for Foreign and Community Relations (COFCOR) has congratulated Albert Ramdin, Minister of Foreign Affairs, International Business and International Cooperation of Suriname, on his historic election today as the new Secretary-General of the Organization of American States (OAS).
(Trinidad Express) Four men were killed in separate incidents between Friday night and Sunday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two terms and almost ten years later, how will Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley be remembered when he steps away from that office next week?
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador President Daniel Noboa said yesterday that his country will not receive deported migrants of other nationalities, and criticized Venezuela’s president for allegedly rejecting flights of Venezuelan migrants deported from the United States.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Global coffee traders and roasters say they have slashed their purchases to minimal levels, as the industry reels from a steep surge in prices that suppliers have yet to convince retail stores to accept.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Latin American rights activists yesterday warned of growing political threats to reproductive rights across the region, as the United States rolls back access to abortion.
(Trinidad Guardian) Acting Prime Minister Stuart Young has vowed to bring legislation to reform social media should the PNM win the next general election.
(Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that scheduled flights to bring home Venezuelan migrants from the U.S.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Dancehall artiste Mavado has expressed relief and outrage following Friday’s Court of Appeal decision to overturn the murder conviction of his son, Dantay Brooks, and his co-accused, Andre Hinds.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Three women have been charged with the brutal murder of Kevin Walker, the 42-year-old Digicel worker and businessman whose body was found in a barrel on Industrial Terrace in Kingston last month.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – The Panama Maritime Authority, which oversees shipping and port infrastructure in the country, will request all legal and financial documents from a key transaction between CK Hutchison 0001.HKand
(Trinidad Express) Twenty-one bullets were used in the killing of a man in Morvant on Thursday night.
(Reuters) – Haitian economist and former central bank chief Fritz Alphonse Jean took over the rotating presidency of Haiti’s transitional presidential council on Friday, taking the top executive role in a country battling a devastating conflict with armed gangs.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration said yesterday that the previous day’s explosion of a SpaceX Starship spacecraft disrupted about 240 flights, with space debris concerns requiring more than two dozen of those planes to divert.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Twenty two people were killed in gun battles in Ecuador’s largest city Guayaquil on Thursday, in what police said was a potential dispute between factions of the Los Tiguerones criminal gang fighting for control of parts of one neighborhood.
(Trinidad Express) The Sea Lots community is being ripped apart, with the fear of an upcoming war due to jealousy and envy over the issuance of contracts as well as the pace of development in different areas, according to residents.
MADRID, (Reuters) – The Dominican Republic has rebuked Spain’s main opposition party over an AI-generated video in which it indirectly linked the Caribbean nation to corruption while attacking its own country’s government, leading Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to apologise.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump suspended yesterday the 25% tariffs he imposed this week on most goods from Canada and Mexico, the latest twist in a fluctuating trade policy that has whipsawed financial markets and fanned worries over inflation and a growth slowdown.
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