QUITO, (Reuters) – Power was nearly fully restored in Ecuador yesterday afternoon, after a nationwide electricity outage struck residential users, hospitals as well as the capital’s subway system, a failure officials blamed on faulty transmission lines.
(Reuters) – The Caribbean Development Bank’s acting president yesterday called for immediate action to fund efforts to protect the region’s coastlines and population from the growing impacts of climate change, ahead of a potentially severe hurricane season.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The murder of British reporter Dom Phillips in the Amazon rainforest two years ago was not an isolated crime in a region where violence against journalists has soared in recent years, a report published yesterday said.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Finance, Colm Imbert, says T&T raised US$750 million in a 10-year bond on the international capital market yesterday “without difficulty.”
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday he was “totally unaware” that billionaire Indian industrialist Naveen Jindal is currently before the courts in India fighting corruption allegations.
(Trinidad Guardian) A massive leak that led to flooding on three floors of the new Ministry of Health building in Port-of-Spain, yesterday caused a major disruption in its operations and forced the evacuation of employees.
(Trinidad Guardian) The containment of the remaining 11,000 barrels of bunker fuel inside the Gulfstream barge at Cove has resumed following last week’s weather challenges and major oil leak.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia will give legal status to up to 540,000 Vene-zuelan migrants who are guardians to minors residing in the country, Colombia’s country’s migration agency said yesterday.
QUITO (Reuters) – Ecuador’s foreign ministry yesterday said that it was effectively reinstating a visa requirement for travelers from China, citing an increase in irregular migratory flows from the Asian nation.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Federal Court voted yesterday to indict three people, including a federal lawmaker and a former local police chief, accused of planning and ordering the 2018 murder of Rio de Janeiro city council member Marielle Franco and her driver.
(Trinidad Express) A three-judge panel at the Appeal Court has reserved its ruling in a legal challenge by Auditor General Jaiwantie Ramdass.
(Reuters) – A top executive at the United Nations’ migration agency today warned of catastrophic humanitarian consequences for the spiraling numbers of Haitians forced to flee their homes due to violence fueled by a conflict with armed gangs.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva criticized the country’s central bank today saying its chief, Roberto Campos Neto, works to harm Latin America’s largest economy.
CARACAS, (Reu-ters) – Venezuela’s National Assembly yesterday began discussing a proposal to extend through 2047 a contract between state oil company PDVSA and U.S.
(Trinidad Express) The North Central Regional Health Authority’s (NCRHA) Cardiology Primary Care Clinic (CPCC) has brought access to specialist heart care services to communities across the country, which were previously exclusive to hospitals.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition coalition said yesterday that four activists from two of its political parties have been detained in recent days, as tensions rise ahead of a July presidential contest.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva today urged his government to speed up actions in the Amazon to combat organized crime that has contributed to destruction of the world’s largest tropical rainforest.
(Barbados Nation) Submissions will continue next week when the re-sentencing hearing of convicted Campus Trendz killer Jamar Dewayne Bynoe resumes before Justice Michelle Weekes.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Four months after a mystery shipwreck caused a disastrous oil spill from the Caribbean island of Tobago to neighbouring Bonaire, Bertrand Smith, director general of the Maritime Authority of Jamaica, wants more support for the country’s marine planning and the prevention of ghost fishing.
…attacks by gangs ‘well coordinated using lookouts’ (Trinidad Express) Criminal gangs operating in hotspot areas in the country have started monitoring police patrols before carrying out illegal activities.
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