Regional News

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan gang leader Carlos Revette, known as El Koki and wanted by authorities for months, was killed in a police operation near Caracas, Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuela’s government has urged T&T authorities to carry out an “exhaustive investigation” to clarify the death of a child who migrated to this country with his mother and who died after presumably, the boat in which he was traveling was shot at by the Coast Guard.

(Trinidad Guardian) A devastating fire destroyed nine automotive businesses in Bamboo Number Two yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The atrocity suffered by Katherine Akum Lum when lye was used instead of distilled water after her hysterectomy at a public hospital has sparked a firestorm on social media.

MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan lawmakers loyal to President Daniel Ortega yesterday passed legislation allowing the state to take over six universities the government effectively shut down last week, in a move critics say entrench authoritarianism.

HOUSTON/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Biden administration is considering a Chevron Corp proposal to allow the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard is attempting to explain how its officers came to fire upon a Venezuelan migrant vessel, and act that killed a baby on board the boat.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 15-year-old boy was among three people killed on Saturday night in Diego Martin.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 14-year-old boy is among four people shot dead in Diego Martin.

(Trinidad Guardian) As a single and independent mother, Katherine Akum Lum was living her best life.

(Trinidad Express) – Even as he noted that instances of corruption were widespread in Trinidad and Tobago, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday “the time has come to stop pretending that the angel Gabriel will come down and save us from ourselves”.

(Trinidad Guardian) – A worker was shot dead after he tried to escape during a robbery at a jewellery store on High Street, San Fernando, yesterday.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – The leader of a group of Haitians concerned about the Caribbean country’s future called yesterday for the formation of a provisional government to bolster security and ensure free elections in two years.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Intense fires in Colombia’s Amazon region so far this year point to rising deforestation by people clearing land for ranching and other uses, alarming environment groups, while officials also warned of pollution caused by smoke.

(Trinidad Express) Hitmen are being hired from criminal gangs to murder people.

(Trinidad Express) Police have confirmed they are investigating the alleged failure of Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi to transfer the motor vehicle registration of a car which he sold to former member of the Police Service Commission (PolSC) Roger Kawalsingh.

VENTANILLA, Peru,  (Reuters) – Spanish energy firm Repsol SA said yesterday it will only finish cleaning up a large oil spill off the coast of Peru in late March, pushing back an earlier timeline it had set of late February.

CARTAGENA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Venezuela is moving troops to the border with Colombia with technical assistance from Russia and Iran, Colombia’s Defense Minister Diego Molano said yesterday, calling the possible deployment “foreign interference.”

(Trinidad Express) More than 450 workers are expected to be retrenched from majority State-owned telecommunications provider TSTT.

CARTAGENA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Venezuela is moving troops to the border with Colombia with technical assistance from Russia and Iran, Colombia’s Defense Minister Diego Molano said today, calling the possible deployment “foreign interference.”