Regional News

(Trinidad Express) The Government rejected the suggestion that Pegasus software should be bought, National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds said on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) The Government rejected the suggestion that Pegasus software should be bought, National Security Minister Fitzgerald Hinds said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are investigating the circumstances of a ‘mystery’ double murder of a young couple who resided along the North Coast Road, close to the pillars on the way to Maracas Bay.

(Trinidad Guardian) Grandmother Sita Jagessar, who was murdered at her Debe home last Tuesday, was beaten and strangled.

MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s government yesterday said it had completed its withdrawal from the Organization of American States (OAS), a move the group swiftly decried as violating international norms and unable to go into effect for another year.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – El Salvador’s Congress yesterday approved a month-long extension of emergency measures that rights groups say infringe civil liberties but which President Nayib Bukele has said are necessary after a surge of gang killings.

(Trinidad Express) How was a dead woman able to sell a parcel of land in Trinidad years after her death?

(Trinidad Guardian) – A police officer was shot and killed on Rich Plain Road, Diego Martin, yesterday, while conducting a search operation.

(Barbados Nation) – Prominent businessman Ralph “Bizzy” Williams said Barbados can be entirely powered by sun, saving the country US$200 million a year.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Thousands of Argentine farmers protested in Buenos Aires yesterday against President Alberto Fernandez, whose policies to contain food prices to curb rampant inflation have been criticized by the agricultural sector.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Work-ers at a Panasonic auto parts plant in northern Mexico elected an independent union this week, marking another defeat for one of the country’s biggest labour organizations as Mexico seeks to strengthen worker rights in line with a new trade deal.

(Trinidad Express) – As the family of Debe grandmother Sita Jagessar await the results of an autopsy to find out what caused her death, a member of the family said they believe she was ambushed and killed in her home.

(Trinidad Guardian) A police officer was shot and killed on Rich Plain Road, Diego Martin, yesterday, while conducting a search operation.

QUITO, (Reuters) – The president of Ecuador’s National Justice Court yesterday said he had signed an extradition request for the country’s ex-President Rafael Correa, who lives in Belgium, seeking his return to Ecuador to serve an eight-year jail term for bribery.

(Trinidad Guardian) Kurt Cupid also known as Kurt David Smith, 51, a man described by police as a person of interest in several high profile criminal investigations including million-dollar robberies was killed in Longdenville on Thursday night.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Opposition parties yesterday filed constitutional complaints at Brazil’s Supreme Court against a pardon granted by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to an ally who the court sentenced to nearly nine years in prison for anti-democratic threats.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s national police have captured 18 suspected members of a criminal group who could have ties to drugs and arms trafficking, as well as murders and terrorism, with possible ties to an illegal armed group in Colombia, the organization said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two relatives, a 31-year-old woman and her common-law husband, have been charged with manslaughter following the death of six-year-old Zackariah Charles.

(Trinidad Guardian) When Joshua Mahabir died from gunshots on Wednesday night, the spanner he used to fix his car was still in his hand and the phone he was speaking to his wife on lay at his side.

(Trinidad Express) Mask-wearing remains mandatory on board Caribbean Airlines flights, according to the airline’s corporate communications manager, Dionne Ligoure.