Regional News

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Bolivia’s interim government led by President Jeanine Anez is using the justice system to persecute her predecessor Evo Morales and his allies and supporters, Human Rights Watch said in a report published on Friday.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentina’s government said yesterday that it will abstain from voting – and called on other countries to do the same – in the upcoming election of a new president at Latin America’s main financing institution.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A top expert on isolated Amazon tribes in Brazil was killed by an arrow that struck him in the chest as he approached an indigenous group, friends and a police witness said yesterday.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The Brazilian state of Bahia has signed an agreement to conduct Phase 3 clinical trials for Russia’s Sputnik V vaccine against COVID-19 and plans to buy 50 million doses to market in Brazil, officials said yesterday.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Demonstrators took to the streets for a second night in Colombia’s capital Bogota yesterday to press ahead with protests against police brutality that have erupted in violence and taken nine lives so far.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Couva man is expected to appear virtually before a Couva Magistrate charged with the murder of Venezuelan national, Joanna Sanchez-Diaz, which occurred on an unknown date between August 27th 2020 and September 5th 2020.

(Trinidad Guardian) Technology giant Mastercard has announced its partnership with WiPay, building on its strategic plan to evolve and develop its presence in the Caribbean.

(Trinidad Guardian) Officers of the Western Division Emergency Response Patrol (ERP) arrested three robbery suspects this afternoon.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Tragedy rocked the rural district of Keynsham, St Elizabeth, yesterday after a lightning strike killed a teenager and a farmer under an avocado tree.

BUENOS AIRES/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump’s pick to run Latin America’s main financing institution appears poised to win the top job in this weekend’s election amid faltering regional opposition to having a U.S.

THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – The interim government of Bolivia has referred protests and blockades by opposition supporters this August ahead of the presidential vote in October to the International Criminal Court, the court’s prosecutor said in a statement yesterday.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – The governor of Brazil’s São Paulo state said yesterday that Phase 3 clinical trials of a potential COVID-19 vaccine developed by China’s Sinovac Biotech Ltd have shown promising results and it may be available to Brazilians as early as December.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – The office of Brazil’s top prosecutor has decided to keep the country’s famed Car Wash anti-corruption task force active through Jan.

(Jamaica Star) Retailers and shopkeepers across the island are reportedly rationing chicken due to a shortage of poultry meat in the market place.

(Trinidad Express) POLICE had to be called to the Bayside Towers gated community in Cocorite on Sunday to break up a poolside birthday party attended by more than 40 young people.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 16-year-old boy is expected to appear before a Magistrate virtually today, charged with the murder of Kowsil Ramkhelawan.

(Trinidad Express) A 28-year-old labourer of La Brea Trace, Siparia, was denied bail when he appeared before Magistrate Aden Stroude at the Siparaia First Magistrates’ Court yesterday, charged with rape and kidnapping.

(Jamaica Gleaner) DNA samples taken from six persons of interest and close associates of murdered American model Desiree Gibbon have not led to the arrest or identity of the New Yorker’s killer three years after her death.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Minister of Health Dr Christopher Tufton says based on modelling, up to 1.5 million Jamaicans may contract COVID-19. 

(Trinidad Express) FOUR police officers and two civilians were seriously injured after their vehicle crashed while chasing suspected criminals in Barrackpore on Sunday morning.