Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is to be in Barbados today  where he will participate in a series of talks with high-level U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) Exactly four years after his grandmother died, an Enterprise father of one was gunned down at his home Monday.

(Trinidad Express) Planning and Development Minister Pennelope Beckles has confirmed that she voted in support of an independent investigation regarding recent allegations involving the president of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), Mauricio Claver-Carone.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – American and Cuban officials are due to meet in Washington on Thursday to discuss migration concerns, people familiar with the matter said, in the highest-level formal U.S.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s plan to increase state control of power generation was defeated in parliament yesterday, as opposition parties united in the face of a bill they said would hurt investment and breach international obligations.

(St Vincent Times) Ralph Gonsalves, Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines has travelled to Venezuela for medical attention.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s justice ministry said yesterday that federal police had captured the No.

(Trinidad Guardian) The ex-wife of Coastguardsman Kester Williams, Janelle Yard-Blackman, is urging women to leave violent relationships immediately.

(Trinidad Express) Asha Samaroo is expected to face a magistrate for allegedly faking her kidnapping.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Rwandan President Paul Kagame has said that the driving force behind the economic growth that his country had achieved in the 2010s was driven mainly by the agricultural sector.

(Trinidad Guardian) – There is a problem with leadership in T&T, according to Archbishop Jason Gordon– they don’t serve.

(Trinidad Guardian) – For several hours on Good Friday, police and soldiers combed through the streets of San Fernando, raiding apartment buildings and checking all medical institutions to find three men whom they believe murdered a soldier.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. border authorities arrested 210,000 migrants attempting to cross the border with Mexico in March, the highest monthly total in two decades and underscoring challenges in the coming months for U.S.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of motor bikers followed Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro today from Sao Paulo to the neighboring city of Americana along a 60-mile (100-km) rally.

(Trinidad Guardian) A manhunt is underway for three gunmen who shot and killed Junior Chase, a soldier with the T&T Defense Force, outside a food outlet in San Fernando on Good Friday morning.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Russia has asked Brazil for support in the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and the G20 group of top economies to help it counter crippling sanctions imposed by the West since it invaded Ukraine, according to a letter seen by Reuters.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The board of governors of the Inter-American Development Bank has approved a resolution to hire an outside firm to investigate allegations that IDB President Mauricio Claver-Carone had an inappropriate relationship with a subordinate, sources familiar with the decision said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) During the last two years, in the midst of all the confusion and chaos brought upon by the COVID-19 pandemic, Massy Stores embarked on the most rapid expansion drive in its history, opening 13 new locations across the region in just 18 months.

(Trinidad Guardian) During the last two years, in the midst of all the confusion and chaos brought upon by the COVID-19 pandemic, Massy Stores embarked on the most rapid expansion drive in its history, opening 13 new locations across the region in just 18 months.

(Trinidad Express) Cabinet has stopped the award of a contract for a national CCTV (closed-circuit television) network in Trinidad and Tobago to Irish-owned telecommunications provider Digicel, and referred the evaluation and its outcome to new Attorney General Reginald Armour.