Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Amar Deobarran educated thousands of pupils over a long teaching career, but he will be remembered as a wife killer who ruined the lives of his children.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Justice Minister Delroy Chuck says Jamaica’s gunmen are operating like Russian president Vladimir Putin, killing and maiming people without just cause.

(Trinidad Guardian) – Seven months before school teacher Amar Deobarran murdered his wife Omatie Ramdial-Deobarran and then killed himself, he confessed to her that he had a child with another woman, with whom he wanted to start a new life.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – A monumental error. That’s how Antigua and Barbuda’s Prime Minister Gaston Browne has described the decision of Jamaica’s Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith to run for the post of Commonwealth Secretary-General.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador is this month poised for victory in a referendum on his rule that could fortify his authority during the final stretch of his administration even as critics dismiss the vote as a sideshow.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Heavy rains caused mudslides that killed at least eight people, including six from the same family, in the south of Brazil’s Rio de Janeiro state, local authorities and the fire department said yesterday.

Jamaica yesterday announced the candidature of Senator Kamina Johnson Smith, Minister of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade, for the post of Secretary-General of the Commonwealth.

(Trinidad Express) Mother of two Omatie Deobarran was killed at her home in Barrackpore on Friday night.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian democracy is being “threatened,” Edson Fachin, the president of Brazil’s electoral court (TSE), said yesterday, saying the country faced “a turbulent period” ahead of a fraught October presidential election.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s central bank employees began an indefinite strike for a wage increase yesterday, threatening the stability of the wildly popular Pix instant payment system and other data releases.

AMSTERDAM,  (Reuters) – Chile asked judges at the World Court yesterday to award it “equitable and reasonable” use of the waters of the Silala river, which runs from Bolivia into Chile, in the latest dispute between the South American neighbours.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s Parliament, dominated by President Daniel Ortega, yesterday approved reforms that educators warn will weaken the autonomy of universities amid new rules that strengthen the government’s control over curriculums, programs and chairs.

(Trinidad Guardian) Jamaica’s Central Bank’s decision to pursue its own digital currency is as much an effort to reach out to the relative unbanked segment of the population as it is to continue the Western Caribbean country’s effort to digitise its economy.

(Trinidad Express) A private forensic report on deceased diver Kazim Ali junior found that he was alive in the pipeline after being declared dead by Paria Fuel Trading Company Limited, possibly for up to 39 hours.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness said his meeting with US vice president Kamala Harris yesterday was “very productive”.

(Barbados Nation) Barbados has not changed its requirement that everyone in public wear masks.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR) yesterday ruled that Peru should not release jailed former President Alberto Fujimori until further notice, according to a decision shared with Reuters by a human rights activist.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Federal police in Brazil looking into whether President Jair Bolsonaro interfered in police work have cleared him of committing any crime, according to a document sent to the country’s Supreme Court yesterday.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran authorities ordered a subsidiary of Canada’s Aura Minerals Inc ORA.TO

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haitian demonstrators protesting against crime in the city of Les Cayes yesterday burned a plane belonging to U.S.