Regional News

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

(Trinidad Guardian) One day after police identified 21-year-old Keithisha Cudjoe as the latest woman to be murdered in 2022, someone shot a San Fernando mother of two after she left for work yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Investigations are continuing into a murder that took place in broad daylight in Enterprise, Chaguanas yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) January 2022 ended with 50 murders, a figure that was double that of last year and given the constant rising number of murders and violent crimes, a criminologist has suggested that T&T seems heading to become a mafia country.

In a judgment released yesterday, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in its Appellate Jurisdiction, allowed the appeal of the Barbados Commissioner of Police, in the matter of Commissioner of Police v Stephen Alleyne.

(Trinidad Guardian) A decomposed body that was found at the Heights of Aripo on Friday has been identified as that of a Cocorite woman who was reported missing on the weekend, 21-year-old Keithisha Cudjoe, a mother of one.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Part of a major expressway collapsed yesterday above a construction site in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo where Spain’s Acciona SA was excavating a tunnel for a new subway line.

QUITO, (Reuters) – At least 14 people died and another 32 were injured in a landslide in the north of Ecuador’s capital Quito, the country’s emergency response office said today, as firefighter rescue crews continue searching homes and streets covered by mud.

(Trindiad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says corruption in the Public Service has been flourishing.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru Environment Minister Ruben Ramirez said yesterday the government will temporarily suspend Repsol’s offshore oil unloading operations following a spill of over 10,000 barrels that has caused widespread environmental damage.

(Trinidad Express) Former police commissioner Gary Griffith said yesterday the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) was “starved of resources” while he was at the helm.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Landslides and flooding from heavy rains in Sao Paulo state have killed at least 19 people since Friday, including seven children, public safety officials said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Virgin Atlantic is back! After a forced break of almost two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK carrier has restarted flights to Tobago as part of a wider resumption of services to the Caribbean.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Chilean protesters marched against immigration and crime in the Andean country’s far north yesterday, with some violent factions destroying belongings from migrant camps in the streets amid growing tension in the region over border controls.

(Trinidad Guardian) Virgin Atlantic is back! After a forced break of almost two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK carrier has restarted flights to Tobago as part of a wider resumption of services to the Caribbean.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities have detained a mayor belonging to the ruling Socialist party and two elected deputies as part of an operation against drug trafficking, the government said, without saying if any drugs were seized.

(Trinidad Express) – A ten-year-old boy died on Thursday night after he was shot in the head at his home in Arima.

QUITO, (Reuters) – OCP Ecuador, the operator of Ecuador’s privately held heavy crude pipeline, suspended pumping crude yesterday as a preventative measure after it ruptured in the Amazon, and began cleaning and repairs.

ROME, (Reuters) – Italy has rejected a request by Venezuela for the extradition of Rafael Ramirez, a once powerful oil minister and former head of state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, his lawyer said on Saturday.

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina has struck an agreement in principle with the International Monetary Fund over a new $44.5 billion standby deal, both sides said yesterday, a major breakthrough in tense talks to restructure loans the country cannot repay.