RIO DE JANEIRO, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The rescue of 39 slaves from an illegal gold mine in Brazil run by a known offender highlights the difficulty in ending crimes where large profits are involved, labour authorities said.
LIMA, (Reuters) – The head of Peru’s Congress, Manuel Merino, was sworn in as the Andean nation’s president on Tuesday, and vowed that elections set for April would stand after lawmakers removed Martin Vizcarra on corruption charges.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) is insisting that there are no restrictions on the hours citizens may turn up at police stations to file complaints.
(Trinidad Express) A barber who reported to police that he was kidnapped and robbed has been fined for wasteful employment of the police by making a false report.
(Trinidad Guardian) A suspected paedophile faced the wrath of a Carenage community after he was allegedly caught assaulting a child.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s Congress ousted President Martín Vizcarra yesterday in an impeachment vote over corruption allegations, prompting immediate tensions in the Andean nation.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s health regulator said yesterday it had suspended clinical trials for China’s Sinovac coronavirus vaccine, due to a “severe adverse effect” that took place on Oct.
VILLAZON, Bolivia, (Reuters) – Bolivia’s former leader Evo Morales made a dramatic homecoming yesterday, greeted by crowds of cheering supporters as he crossed the border from Argentina where he had been living in exile since late last year.
(Jamaica Star) Last Saturday, a small group of persons and two dogs gathered in Shawn ‘Serpent’ Robinson’s backyard to pay their final respect to a mongrel called Estate.
(Trinidad Guardian) A family of four, including two children aged 1 and 2, have been living on the streets for almost three months after the landlord put them out because of apparent tardiness by the government to pay a rental assistance grant promised to them.
(Trinidad Guardian) Political leader of the United National Congress (UNC), Kamla Persad-Bissessar has apologised to United Kingdom politician Sir Kier Starmer, after her congratulatory message to President-elect of the United States, Joe Biden, reflected the exact wording of several of Starmer’s tweets.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Kymani Steele is still in shock as he remembers disembarking the Toyota Fielder death car around 15 minutes before a fiery collision along the Queen’s Highway in St Ann killed four members of a family on Sunday morning.
(Jamaica Observer) Five people are now in custody as the police investigate the murder of their colleague, Constable Kirkland Plummer, and the fatal shooting of one of his alleged attackers in the deep rural community of Harwood, in northern Clarendon, on Saturday night.
(Jamaica Observer) LISA Hanna, the St Ann South Eastern Member of Parliament who on Saturday lost in her bid to lead the People’s National Party (PNP), says she is ready to work with victor Mark Golding to rebuild the fractious Opposition party.
(Trinidad Express) Two men chopped each other following an argument near the home of a woman known to both of them.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The Mexican president’s hesitation over congratulating Joe Biden on his U.S.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Tropical storm Eta pounded central Cuba with torrential rain yesterday, bursting the banks of rivers and causing flash flooding in some towns before exiting via the island’s northern coast and churning on track to the Florida keys.
(Trinidad Express) The “vast majority” of stranded nationals have been cleared by the Ministry of National Security to return home, giving way for a new category of returning nationals to enter the country.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A federal court in the northern Brazilian state of Amapá yesterday gave authorities three days to restore power after a days-long, state-wide blackout due to a transformer fire.
(Jamaica Gleaner) While there will be considerable euphoria and pride in a Joe Biden-Kamala Harris win in the US presidential race, Jamaica-born New York-based political scientist, Diana Cassells, is cautioning Jamaica and the Caribbean about their expectations at this time.
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