Regional News

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said he was discharged from hospital yesterday morning, two days after being admitted with an intestinal obstruction.

(Reuters) – U.S. authorities yesterday charged a Colombian man with conspiracy to commit murder or kidnapping outside the United States in connection with the assassination of Haitian President Jovenel Moise, the first official charges in the brazen crime.

(Trinidad Express) Eleven North Eastern Division Task Force officers were detained yesterday after a Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS)-issued Galil rifle went missing over the Christmas period.

(Trinidad Express) Sixty-seven people, including members of the Defence Force and the Coast Guard, were detained yesterday morning on a boat in the waters off Carenage.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Gunmen unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry during an event on Saturday commemorating the Caribbean country’s independence, his office said in a statement.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two years after they were arrested for having in their possession an AK-47 high-powered rifle, 75-year-old Roy Mahabir and his daughter-in-law Sharlene Lawrence, 28, were gunned down on Sunday night.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized yesterday with an intestinal blockage and may need to undergo surgery in the latest complication from a 2018 stabbing.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Twenty-three people have been reported killed so far in Colombia’s Arauca province amid fighting between illegal armed groups, Defense Minister Diego Molano told a news conference late on Monday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Gunmen unsuccessfully attempted to assassinate Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry during an event on Saturday commemorating the Caribbean country’s independence, his office said in a statement.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro was hospitalized today with an intestinal blockage but is in stable condition, the hospital said in a medical note.

(Trinidad Guardian) While many people hope 2022 will be a year when the world finally defeats COVID-19, it continues to bring tragedy, claiming the life of beloved Soca Parang artiste Kenwrick “Kenny J” Joseph.

(Trinidad Express) The station diary at the Carenage Police Station states that businessman Adrian Scoon called Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi while there and being questioned in connection with the party on board the MV Ocean Pelican on Boxing Day.

(Trinidad Guardian) Veteran calypsonian The Mighty Bomber has died. Bomber, whose real name is Clifton Ryan, passed yesterday at the age of 93.

(Trinidad Express) Fire officers believe a sky lantern or fireworks may have caused a New Year’s morning fire in East Port of Spain which destroyed four homes, damaged two cars and caused a power outage after an electricity pole was incinerated.

(Trinidad Guardian) Seriously consider taking the vaccine and the booster. That’s the year-end message to their flocks from seven churches that have jointly called for an attitude of hope heading into 2022, as they warned against “divisiveness” and suggested that vaccination against Covid-19 become a tool for unity.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police Constable Marcus Henry who was last attached to the Eastern Division Task Force, passed away yesterday due to complications from the COVID-19 virus.

(Barbados Nation) Floyd Reifer has announced that he will not be contesting the St George North seat in the General Elections on January 19, 2022.

(Trinidad Guardian) The hike in the price of flour, announced yesterday by the National Flour Mills (NFM), has triggered a panicked ripple effect in the country, especially after the company admitted that prices could rise again in the future.

(Trinidad Guardian) Dozens of Venezuelan nationals who were attempting to enter Trinidad and Tobago illegally in two separate vessels, were intercepted by the Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard (TTCG) during patrols carried out over the Christmas holiday weekend. 

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombian security forces yesterday neutralized two clandestine refineries in the country’s northeast which belonged to the rebel National Liberation Army (ELN), the defense ministry said.