MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Claudia Sheinbaum, a Nobel Prize-winning climate scientist, will become Mexico’s first female president after winning a landslide election victory and promising to continue the work of her mentor and outgoing leader Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador.
(Trinidad Guardian) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has vowed to reopen the Petrotrin Refinery should she be re-elected prime minister in next year’s general election.
(Trinidad Express) A businesswoman and fitness coach died in a fatal collision on Friday night.
WASHINGTON/HAVANA, (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department on Tuesday announced regulatory changes to allow more American financial support for Cuba’s nascent private sector and bolster access to U.S.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s election is now the bloodiest in its modern history after a candidate running for local office in central Puebla state was murdered yesterday at a political rally, taking the number of assassinated candidates to 37 ahead of tomorrow’s vote.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Barbados-based Caribbean Examinations Council’s (CXC) decision to remove the Agriculture Double Award from its syllabus has been described as “short-sighted” by agricultural economist Dr Omardath Maharaj, who believes this will have a ripple effect on food production in the Caribbean.
(Trinidad Guardian) The mas fraternity has been plunged into mourning following the death of eight-time San Fernando King of the Band winner Leroy Prieto.
USS WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Argentina naval forces and a U.S. fleet including the nuclear-powered aircraft carrier USS George Washington carried out naval exercises yesterday in waters off the South American nation, a show of closer ties under new President Javier Milei.
(Reuters) – A Trinidad and Tobago court order has granted ConocoPhillips COP.N
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuadorean police said yesterday that the leader of a major gang from the South American country, who is implicated in the January murder of a prosecutor, among other crimes, has been arrested in Panama.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Supreme Court has ruled that dancehall entertainer Vybz Kartel and his co-accused are to remain behind bars pending a decision in the Court of Appeal on whether they should be retried for murder.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police have charged Canadian YouTuber Chris Must List with sedition, a day after he was taken into custody by officers of the Special Investigation Unit in Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
(Barbados Nation) The Queen Elizabeth Hospital is gearing up to introduce a new electronically driven information system within the next few months at its Accident & Emergency Department (A& E) which could lead to significantly reduced wait times at this island’s largest medical health facility.
ELDORADO DO SUL, Brazil, (Reuters) – After three days of ferocious rains, Edite de Almeida and her husband fled their flooded home in early May and let loose their humble dairy herd on higher ground.
(Reuters) – British oil major BP BP.L and Trinidad and Tobago’s state energy firm NGC have received a two-year licence from the U.S.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela has revoked its invitation for the European Union to send election observers for a presidential contest in July, Elvis Amoroso, the head of the National Electoral Council (CNE) said yesterday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s transition council yesterday tapped former Prime Minister Garry Conille, who briefly led the country over a decade ago, to return to the role as the Caribbean nation works to restore stability and take back control from violent gangs.
…Energy Minister refers to global shift away from hydrocarbons (Trinidad Guardian) T&T has received six bids on four blocks from BP, Shell and EOG Resources in the 2023 shallow water auction to explore for oil and gas.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s Constitutional Court denied yesterday proposals from the finance ministry to modify a ruling that struck down a ban on oil and mining companies deducting royalties from their taxes, in a move the leftist government has said will force an increase in the 2024 fiscal deficit.
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