Regional News

(Trinidad Express) There will be no devaluing of the TT dollar as this will not increase the availability of foreign exchange in the country.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A Spirit Airlines flight destined for the Haitian capital of Port-au-Prince was struck by gunfire today, forcing it to be diverted to the neighboring Dominican Republic.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Violence and crime absorb almost 3.5% of Latin America and the Caribbean’s (LAC) economic output, depleting funds that could be used in education and assisting the vulnerable, a report by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) showed.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Althea Graham-Dolly rested her Bible on a chair, and having donned her hat in preparing to head off to church, was turning back to retrieve something when gunmen, who had been travelling in a motor car, attacked and shot her several times Sunday morning.

(Trinidad Express) There will be no devaluing of the TT dollar as this will not increase the availability of foreign exchange in the country.

LIMA/BEIJING, (Reuters) – In South American copper giant Peru, the incoming Donald Trump White House will find itself already on the losing side in a trade battle with China, part of a bigger power realignment around the resource-rich region in Washington’s backyard.

(Reuters) – Gunmen killed 10 people in a bar in the central Mexican state of Queretaro late Saturday, authorities said, adding to a wave of violent crime that is gripping several areas of the country.

HAVANA (Reuters) – A 6.8 magnitude earthquake rocked eastern Cuba on Sunday, according to the U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) A million-dollar birthday celebration for Ancel Villafana that was scheduled to take place at the Beetham Gardens Recreational Grounds today was cancelled late on Friday after permission was rescinded by the authorities.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti will name entrepreneur and former senate candidate Alix Didier Fils-Aime to replace Prime Minister Garry Conille, who was tapped for the role in May, according to a transitional presidential council draft resolution seen by Reuters.

(Trinidad Guardian) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday that T&T’s foreign exchange restrictions are not consistent with the Fund’s Articles of Agreement.

(Reuters) – Sweden and Brazil signed a letter of intent yesterday to extend cooperation on aviation, with Brazil intending to buy SAAB SAABa.ST

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru aims to finalize negotiations for a free trade agreement with India in 2025 and is advancing talks to have a similar trade pact with Indonesia in the future, said Peruvian Minister of Foreign Trade and Tourism Ursula Leon.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – An agreement aimed at ensuring more regular water from Mexico to the United States has been reached, both governments said yesterday, following a long period of tension over a decades-old treaty.

(Trinidad Guardian) RBC is insisting that recent foreign exchange limits announced to its credit cards are necessary in the face of a steady increase foreign currency transactions but no corresponding increase in supply.

(Reuters) – Russia has pledged to provide Cuba with approximately 80,000 tons of diesel fuel worth $60 million to assist the island nation in its energy crisis, Russian state-run RIA news agency reported on Friday, citing Russian Deputy Prime Minister Dmitry Chernyshenko.

(Trinidad Express) RBC has announced a 66% reduction in the foreign exchange limits for its personal and business banking credit cards, effective December 1.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness is to know on December 6, whether the Supreme Court will grant his request for a judicial review of the Integrity Commission (IC) report on his financial affairs.

 (Trinidad Express) Why is the conduct of Finance Minister Colm Imbert not also being investigated over a $2.5 billion understatement in this country’s 2023 public financial records?

MEXICO CITY, Nov 8 (Reuters) – Two of Latin America’s top airlines – Chilean carrier LATAM and Mexico’s Aeromexico – are considering alternatives to sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), which remains in short supply in the region, as a means to cut carbon emissions.