Regional News

(Trinidad Express) The tattoo on the back of the headless corpse, found floating at a beach at Toco on Monday, has led police to the identity.

(Trinidad Guardian) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has said that persistent foreign ex-change shortages have highlighted the need to reform the foreign exchange market infrastructure in this country.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago is on course to record its 200th kidney transplant in this country next week.

(Trinidad Guardian) Government will move “very soon” to ensure that all public vehicles are electric, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley announced at Tuesday’s ‘Conversations with the Prime Minister’ event.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s far-right president, Jair Bolsonaro, suffered a setback yesterday in his effort to rush through a law that would allow mining on indigenous reservations, which he had argued was necessary because Brazil needed fertilizer supplies.

(Trinidad Guardian) The delivery of justice in this country is unacceptably slow, says Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley.

(Trinidad Guardian) Jonelle John, the woman who was the first detected with the Omicron COVID-19 variant in T&T, has been charged.

(Trinidad Express) “Facebook libel” is not a “sport” that anyone should engage in, but if they choose to do so, then there will be severe financial consequences imposed by the court.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley last night announced that a three-person Commission of Inquiry will be launched into the circumstances that led to the death of four divers in the Paria tragedy.

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peruvian lawmakers yesterday introduced an impeachment motion to try to oust President Pedro Castillo, the second formal attempt to remove the leftist leader, on the same day his latest Cabinet sought a confirmation vote from the legislature.

(Trinidad Guardian) Almost a year after police seized a cache of guns and ammunition at a Central warehouse, police seized another cache of high-powered weapons at the same warehouse yesterday.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Canada-based PetroTal TAL.V said yesterday it may halt operations at one of its Peruvian oil fields in the heart of the Amazon rainforest due to a river blockade led by indigenous communities that has prevented the transport of crude.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro yesterday said he agreed an agenda for future talks with a U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The council of the University of the West Indies (UWI) has rejected a recommendation to increase student fees. 

SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – Costa Rica’s Congress yesterday approved a reform to the country’s federal employee salary scheme, bringing the Central American nation closer to complying with a $1.78 billion agreement with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. authorities are investigating what appeared to be one of the largest human smuggling attempts off U.S.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Treasure from a 300-year-old Spanish shipwreck will not be used as a form of payment for recovery of the boat, Colombia’s government said yesterday.

(Barbados Government Information Service) Since the start of its digitisation project in 2020, the Archives Department has digitised more than 50 000 pages of historical documents dating back as far as 1635.

CARACAS/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. and Venezuelan officials discussed the possibility of easing oil sanctions on Venezuela but made scant progress toward a deal in their first high-level bilateral talks in years, five sources familiar with the matter said, as Washington seeks to separate Russia from one of its key allies.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – The chief executive of ONGC Videsh, India’s second-largest oil and gas company, yesterday confirmed talks between India and the U.S.