LIMA, (Reuters) – Peruvian President Pedro Castillo survived on Monday an impeachment vote in Congress that fell short of the votes needed to oust the leftist leader eight months after he took office.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivia’s economy grew by 6.11% in 2021, government data showed yesterday, as a recovery in the country’s productive apparatus and raw material exports helped it to emerge from the largest contraction since the 1950s.
(Reuters) – Petrobras PETR4.SA has a strong governance and there is no room for “adventurers” within the firm, said outgoing Chief Executive Joaquim Silva e Luna yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Blaxx (Dexter Stewart), 60, was a true champion of the people.
(Trinidad Express) Blaxx (Dexter Stewart), 60, was a true champion of the people.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Education Minis-ter Milton Ribeiro resigned yesterday following allegations of corruption in the awarding of ministry funds to municipal districts, according to an announcement in the country’s official gazette.
(Trinidad Guardian) Just four days before her 40th birthday, Rosanna Seepersad’s husband of 23 years was killed in their bedroom while she was allegedly heavily medicated and asleep.
(Trinidad Guardian) Missing Williamsville resident Roger Farrow has been found dead.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – The Supreme Court of Honduras yesterday authorized the extradition of former president Juan Orlando Hernandez to the United States, where he is wanted on drug trafficking and firearms charges.
(Reuters) – Gunmen killed 19 people yesterday in a night-time attack on a clandestine cockfighting venue in western Mexico, authorities said, and several other people were reported hospitalized.
(Trinidad Express) A 44-year-old man was shot and killed in Moruga on Saturday afternoon surrounded by his friends and family.
(Trinidad Guardian) Farmers are given a raw deal in T&T and treated with contempt, leader of the Progressive Empowerment Party (PEP) Phillip Alexander has said.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador’s Congress approved yesterday emergency powers that temporarily suspended some constitutional protections after the Central American country recorded a sharp rise in killings attributed to criminal gangs.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prince William has said he is committed to service and “not telling people what to do” after a tour of the Caribbean that was marked by protests over the British empire and criticism that the trip reflected a throwback to colonial times.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Protesters jeered and swarmed around far-right French presidential candidate Marine Le Pen, streaming into a hotel in the overseas territory of Guadeloupe where she was recording a television program, BFM TV reported today.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said Naparima MP Rodney Charles owes this country an apology for dining with a “racist” French parliamentarian while he represented T&T at the United Nations.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has announced the removal of the Safe Zone system from April 4 and a change in the requirement of PCR tests to enter T&T to Antigen tests, from today.
(Trinidad Express) – For the first time in Trinidad and Tobago in more than a century, a person accused of murder has been granted bail.
NASSAU, (Reuters) – Britain’s Prince William has said he supports and respects any decision Caribbean nations make about their future, as Belize, The Bahamas and Jamaica consider cutting their ties with the British monarchy.
(Trinidad Guardian) Over the years, Sanjeev Mahabir’s love for knowledge has grown to significant heights.
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