Regional News

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazil yesterday granted 59 exploratory blocks of oil and natural gas to 13 companies, including Shell SHEL.L,

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez will be extradited next week to the United States, where he faces drug trafficking and firearms charges, Honduran Security Minister Ruben Sabillon said yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Soldier David Alexander has been charged with manslaughter in relation to the death of his daughter, 15-year-old Alliyah Alexander.

(Trinidad Guardian) Minutes after he preached about the importance of preparing for the second coming of Jesus, a Pointe-a-Pierre evangelist was shot dead in front of his family on Monday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police have launched a manhunt for the killers of Amar Mohammed, 23.

(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley is asking the public to be patient as crews from the Barbados Water Authority (BWA), assisted by private contractors, work around the clock on emergency repairs at the Belle Pumping Station.

(Trinidad Express) Evangelist Kerwin Davis of Plaisance Park, Claxton Bay, was shot and killed last night at Jack Street, Marabella shortly after he officiated at a 40 days prayer service.

 (Trinidad Express) Former police commissioner Gary Griffith is promising his party the National Transformation Alliance (NTA) will bring about a “tsunami” of change.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – An illegal gold mining boom on Brazil’s largest indigenous reservation has brought disease, violence and grave human rights violations on the Yanomami people, according to research and allegations included in a new report yesterday, blaming high gold prices and tacit government support.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s top election authority, the Supreme Electoral Court (TSE), told Reuters yesterday it has invited the European Union for the first time to observe its general elections this year, when President Jair Bolsonaro will seek re-election.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – As a punishing, record-breaking drought enters its 13th year, Chile yesterday announced an unprecedented plan to ration water for the capital of Santiago, a city of nearly 6 million.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Nine out of ten Mexicans voting yesterday in an unprecedented recall election engineered by President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador backed him to stay in office, underlining his domination of a polarized political agenda.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Nubank NU.N, Latin America’s most valuable fintech, is fueling its expansion in Mexico and Colombia with the investment of a $650 million line of credit, the digital bank said today.

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Education has again apologised to the children affected by the circumstances surrounding the award of the SEA (Secondary Entrance Assessment) President’s Medal, 2020.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexicans today vote on whether their president should stay in office, in an unprecedented referendum he argues is vital to confirm his democratic mandate but which the opposition casts as a costly distraction from the country’s real problems.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Road traffic deaths have increased by 25% in 2022, with 30 lives lost on the nation’s roads, according to data from the Traffic and Highway Patrol Branch Roadway Surveillance Unit.

(Barbados Nation) – A Guyanese woman and her partner, who were living and working in Barbados under the Caricom Single Market and Economy free movement of labour programme, appeared in court on Friday charged with unlawfully and maliciously wounding her eight-year-old child.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – U.S. farmers, on a trade tour in Cuba, said on Wednesday they would like to sell more wheat and other farm products to the impoverished Caribbean island as a global food crisis looms, but that Cold War-era restrictions continue to hamper new deals.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said yesterday that Mexico does not accept the Russian invasion of Ukraine in a video message released to coincide with a global event in support of Ukrainian victims of the conflict.

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – A Honduran judge yesterday signed off on the extradition of former police chief Juan Carlos Bonilla to the United States, where he is wanted for drug trafficking and use or possession of firearms.