BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate yesterday passed a bill banning cellphones in schools across the nation and sent the proposed legislation to be signed into law by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The main suspect in the gruesome murder of veteran court reporter Barbara Gayle has been captured.
St Lucian Prime Minister Prime Minister Philip J. Pierre, yesterday announced that in addition to their monthly salary payments, public sector workers will each receive a one-off $500 bonus from the Government.
(Trinidad Express) Barrackpore contractor was shot dead at a friend’s house before daybreak on Tuesday morning.
(Trinidad Express) On December 8, a passenger plane over Port of Spain descending into the Piarco International Airport, came within six metres (20 feet) of unmanned drone.
SANTOS, Brazil, (Reuters) – Helena Monteiro da Costa’s father was brought from Angola to Brazil as an enslaved person in the 19th century.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) is expressing shock and outrage at the tragic death of veteran journalist Barbara Gayle.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Armed men attacked and partially destroyed a hospital in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, a hospital director told Reuters yesterday, amid a wave of escalating violence that prompted Doctors Without Borders to suspend operations in Haiti last month.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Public Utilities, Marvin Gonzales is calling for a retraction from the Trinidad and Tobago Fire Service (TTFS) following their statement regarding the house fire that killed Lisa Morris-Julian, Minister in the Ministry of Education, and her two children.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The arrest of a four-star general in Brazil over the weekend shows courts are ready to play hardball with those accused of plotting to violently overturn election results, breaking with the impunity that shadowed nearly a century of military coups.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s attorney general said in a statement yesterday that 533 people arrested for taking part in protests over a contested July election have been freed.
(Trinidad Guardian) Northern Division Police, alongside Northern Division Fire Officers, are investigating a devastating house fire that claimed the lives of Member of Parliament Lisa Morris-Julian and her two children, aged 25 and 6, early yesterday morning at their family home on Farfan Street, Arima.
(Trinidad Express) Member of Parliament for D’Abadie/O’Meara Lisa Morris-Julien has died in a house fire along with two relatives.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Retired former Prime Minister P. J. Patterson last Tuesday praised Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley as the Caribbean’s fiercest advocate for social and economic justice, noting that no one since his predecessor, Michael Manley, has been as eloquent in speaking on behalf of the region.
(Trinidad Guardian) Authorities have identified the man found dead in his vehicle at the Piarco International Airport car park on Friday.
(Trinidad Express) Bandits slit the throat of an elderly woman and left her to die in her home on Saturday night.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police are expected to make a breakthrough when it comes to crimes affecting fishermen.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Harley Sandoval, an evangelical pastor, real estate agent and mining entrepreneur, was arrested in July 2023 for illegally exporting 294 kilos of gold from Brazil’s Amazon to the United States, Dubai and Italy.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Federal police arrested Brazil’s former Defense Minister Walter Braga Netto today, the army said, after the retired army general was accused in November of plotting a coup to overturn the results of the 2022 election.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva posted an Instagram video yesterday where he can be seen walking for the first time since being rushed to a hospital earlier this week, providing visual evidence of a delicate recovery.
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