Regional News

CARACAS/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil, Colombia and Mexico are pushing for Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro to meet with the opposition candidate in last week’s disputed election, a diplomatic source told Reuters today, as increasing numbers of Western governments reject Maduro’s claim to victory.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 36-year-old woman, who admitted to beating her four-year-old stepdaughter to death in 2016, has been sentenced to 12 years in prison. 

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The United States yesterday recognized Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s opponent and opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez as the winner of Venezuela’s disputed presidential election, rejecting Maduro’s claim of victory.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Recent glacier retreat across the Andes is unprecedented in the history of human civilization, according to a new study published in the Science journal yesterday.

CARACAS/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The presidents of Brazil, Mexico and Colombia called for Venezuela to release detailed voting tallies today, amid a dispute over presidential election results that has sparked protests.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Brazil today took over the administration of Argentina’s diplomatic premises in Caracas following the expulsion of Argentine diplomats by Venezuela’s government, leaving the fate of six Venezuelan opposition figures taking refuge in the embassy unclear.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Newly minted president of the Court of Appeal Justice Marva McDonald Bishop, in freeing Vybz Kartel and his three co-appellants, today said that it was not in the interest of justice to order a retrial.

CARACAS/PUERTO ORDAZ, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Shops and public transport across Venezuela shut down yesterday as tensions over a fiercely disputed presidential election and rumours of more opposition arrests and sporadic violence kept many people home.

MARACAY/VALENCIA, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Stores were closed and buses not running around much of Venezuela today, as tensions over a disputed presidential election and rumours of opposition arrests kept many people home.

HANOI,  (Reuters) – European Union foreign policy chief Josep Borrell said today the bloc could not recognise Venezuela’s election result until all votes were counted and records provided, amid international concerns over the integrity of the vote.

(Trinidad Express) Doctors are noticing that a lot more children in the critical stage of dengue are presenting neuro-symptoms resulting in neuro-dengue.

(Trinidad Express) CARICOM does not have to take a position on the Venezuelan election because it is a domestic matter, Caricom chairman Dickon Mitchell said yesterday.

(Reuters) – Grenadian Prime Minister Dickon Mitchell said yesterday that early estimates suggest that losses from deadly Hurricane Beryl, which hit the Caribbean earlier this month, likely total as much as a third of economic output.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government unveiled yesterday a 23 billion reais ($4.07 billion) proposal for an artificial intelligence (AI) investment plan aimed at developing sustainable and socially-oriented technologies.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – The Panama Canal  expects to increase the number of daily transit slots for vessels to 36 from the current 34 beginning in September, the canal’s deputy administrator said, as rains allow authorities to ease drought-imposed restrictions.

(Trinidad Express) The mother of Trinibad artiste Mescach Emmanuel, better known as Plumpy Boss, is calling on the government of St Maarten to assist her son who is in critical condition after he was shot several times on Saturday night on the Dutch Caribbean island.

(Trinidad Guardian) As investigations continue into a third killing in Arima in as many weeks, residents near Dump Road and environs have implemented self-imposed curfews for their safety, as they remain uncertain of who is next.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Protesters took to streets throughout Venezuela today, waving flags and demanding President Nicolas Maduro acknowledge he lost Sunday’s election to an opposition that says they clinched a landslide victory.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Indigenous people who see a threat to their ancestral lands from the construction of a railway to carry grains to a port in the Amazon yesterday pulled out of a work group created by the government last year to advance the project.

(Trinidad Express) Trinibad artiste Mescach Emmanuel, better known as Plumpy Boss, is in a critical condition after he was shot several times on Saturday night in St Maarten.