MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – A local Mexican councilwoman in a small town in the Pacific coastal state of Guerrero was killed yesterday by armed men who showed up at her front door, authorities and local media said, following the most violent elections in modern Mexican history.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Just over 170,000 migrants crossed the perilous Darien Gap that connects Panama to Colombia over the first five months of this year, Panama’s migration agency said yesterday, suggesting 2024 could again break records.
(Trinidad Express) The father of Jayden Reyes, 21, who was gunned down on Sunday night at the Port of Spain General Hospital (PoSGH), has appealed to young men to not choose a life of crime but to aspire to greatness as his son did.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba said yesterday that Russian warships would arrive in Havana next week, but that the four navy ships carried no nuclear weapons and did not present a threat to the region.
(Reuters) – A Trinidad and Tobago court yesterday lifted restrictions on a Canadian video blogger from leaving the country, after he had been charged with sedition and jailed for posting videos featuring alleged gang members criticizing the Caribbean nation’s government.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Caribbean Dawah Association is calling on the Government to clarify why the Immigration Division denied Islamic Scholar Sheik Uthmaan Ibn Farooq entry into T&T, classing him and members of his charity group as “undesirables”.
(Trinidad Guardian) The United States Agency for International Development Regional Office to the Eastern and Southern Caribbean (USAID/ESC) and ANSA Merchant Bank Limited (AMBL) have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) under the banner, “Promot-ing Private Sector-Led Sustainability and Resili-ence of the Environment.”
(Reuters) – A person with prior health complications who had contracted bird flu died in Mexico in April and the source of exposure to the virus was unknown, the World Health Organization said on Wednesday.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva discussed the possibility of starting up talks on a bilateral cooperation and investment facilitation agreement with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in a phone call yesterday.
(Reuters) – TotalEnergies TTEF.PA and APA Corp APA.O will make a final investment decision on Suriname’s most promising oil and gas project in the fourth quarter, aiming to begin output in 2028, the French energy company said yesterday.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s President Dina Boluarte will travel to China this month to meet with her Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping and leaders from mining, technology and transportation firms after the Andean nation’s Congress yesterday granted permission for the trip.
NAIROBI, June 5 (Reuters) – In the months leading up to Kenya’s deployment of police officers to Haiti, President William Ruto has consulted political advisers, security officials and foreign leaders about the high-profile anti-gang mission.
(Trinidad Guardian) A former health minister is warning the public that the steady rise in costs to provide free medical care to the population will eventually put the country in a financial bind.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden on Tuesday instituted a broad asylum ban on migrants caught illegally crossing the U.S.-Mexico
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Luisana Gil, a dog groomer in Santiago, Chile, has a lot of hair on her hands – she throws away bags and bags of her clients’ hair, which until recently went straight to the landfill.
(Trinidad Express) Four men were fatally shot in an incident on Sunday night that began in Gonzales and ended in further bloodshed at the Port of Spain General Hospital.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Claudia Sheinbaum basked in the glow of a thumping presidential win late Sunday, thanking supporters who gathered at the capital’s iconic Zocalo plaza shortly after 1 a.m.
(Trinidad Guardian) After opening fire on a group of men in Gonzales Sunday night, gunmen rushed into the Port-of-Spain General Hospital where one of the victims was being taken for treatment and continued shooting to ensure that he did not survive.
(Trinidad Express) A year after his cousin was shot and killed, and there was an attempt to kill his brother and nephew, a South Oropouche man was gunned down outside his home on Saturday night.
(Trinidad Guardian) After opening fire on a group of men in Gonzales last night, gunmen rushed into the Port-of-Spain General Hospital where one of the victims was being taken for treatment and continued shooting to ensure that he did not survive.
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