Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) A bereaved Marabella family is pleading with police not to let the murder of PH taxi driver Shahmeil Redhead go unsolved after he was gunned down during a job on Wednesday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro scolded his Vice President Hamilton Mourao yesterday for condemning the Russian invasion of Ukraine and said it was not his job to speak about the crisis in eastern Europe.

(Trinidad Express) It was the worst case of deja vu a mother could experience.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian presidential candidate Sergio Moro called in an interview day for the political center to unite behind him in order to beat “extreme” alternatives on his left and right at this October’s election.

PROCESADOR DE GAS CACTUS, Mexico,  (Reuters) – It never gets completely dark in Colonia El Carmen, home to Mexico’s largest natural gas processing centre, in the poor southern state of Chiapas.

(Trinidad Express) A Barrackpore family has been ripped apart by violence after the husband chopped his wife then appa­rently drank a poisonous substance and died on Monday night.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley joined other leaders at the Sixth Summit of Heads of State and Government of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF) yesterday.

MOSCOW/HAVANA, (Reuters) – Russia has agreed to postpone some debt payments owed to it by communist-run Cuba until 2027, its lower house of parliament said yesterday, just days after the two countries announced they would deepen ties amid the spiraling Ukraine crisis.

(Trinidad Guardian)  It was described as an invasion after bandits stormed four businesses at Boundary Road, San Juan, yesterday.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – An Argentine bishop requested massages from young men studying to be priests and stored pornographic photos on his phone, witnesses testified yesterday on the second day of the cleric’s trial for sex abuse.

MANAGUA,  (Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega became one of the first world leaders to back Russia’s stance over Ukraine yesterday, saying President Vladimir Putin was right to recognise two regions controlled by Moscow-backed separatists as independent.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Judges on Colombia’s constitutional court voted yesterday to decriminalize abortion until 24 weeks of gestation, the court said in a statement, in a victory for abortion rights groups which sued to have the procedure removed from the penal code.

Barbados is to host the largest clean hybrid power plant in the Caribbean, producing baseload power for 16,000 Barbadian households from solar and locally produced green hydrogen Rubis Energie, the parent company of Rubis Caribbean, has acquired 51% of the largest hydrogen power project in the Caribbean, Renewstable® Barbados (“RSB”), developed by HDF Energy, a release from the company said last week.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haiti’s government yesterday hiked the minimum wage by as much as 54% following weeks of demonstrations by garment workers who say their wages are not enough to keep up with the rising cost of living.

(Barbados Nation) Government will soon be setting up a new Constitution Review Commission, says Attorney General Dale Marshall, and he will be making recommendations about its membership to Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley.

(Trinidad Guardian) Michael Deepak Doodooman valiantly braved the scorching heat, trying to save his elderly parents as he saw them rolling around on the ground, their clothing engulfed in flames, as a raging inferno swept through their Princes Town home yesterday morning.

SANTO DOMINGO,  (Reuters) – The Dominican government yesterday began building a wall that will cover almost half of the 392-kilometre (244 miles) border with Haiti, its only land neighbour, to stop irregular migration and the smuggling of goods, weapons and drugs.

(Trinidad Express) Zepheniah Harripaul, who was abducted from his Chaguaramas workplace on Thursday, told his family he had been threatened and someone attempted to run his car off the road recently.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Russia and Cuba will deepen ties and explore collaboration in transportation, energy, industry and banking, Cuba’s Foreign Ministry said late on Friday following a visit from Russia’s Deputy Prime Minister Yuri Borisov.

CANCAHUANI, Peru, (Reuters) – On a cold day in January, a group of angry indigenous communities in Peru’s copper-rich Andes was driving a hard bargain with the government and Chinese mining firm MMG Ltd around a makeshift negotiating table on a covered soccer pitch.