Regional News

…Daughter of Sauce Doubles owner taken by masked men (Trinidad Express) Twenty-seven-year-old Anisha Hosein, the daughter of the owner of Sauce Doubles, was kidnapped in El Dorado yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) In the space of 24 hours, five people were shot dead in separate incidents across Trinidad and Tobago.

MADRID (Reuters) – Spain recalled its ambassador to Buenos Aires for consultations on Sunday after Argentina’s President Javier Milei made derogatory comments about Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez’s wife during a far-right rally in Madrid.

(Trinidad Guardian) An early morning shooting at a popular liming spot in Sangre Grande has left two people dead and two others fighting for their lives at the hospital after undergoing emergency surgeries.

(Trinidad Guardian) “What a desperately bad place we’re in in Trinidad and Tobago.” These were the words of the former principal of the University of the West Indies, St Augustine, Prof Clement K Sankat, who was robbed yesterday morning. 

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Iran yesterday said it will send experts to its ally Venezuela to help with medical accelerators in hospitals it said had been stopped due to Western sanctions.

LA VICTORIA, Vene-zuela, (Reuters) –  Vene-zuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez said yesterday he will ensure all political parties are free to operate if he unseats President Nicolas Maduro in a July vote, and he urged the military to uphold the country’s institutions as intended by the constitution.

(Trinidad Express) The Coalition against Domestic Violence (CADV) has welcomed the judgment in favour of Samantha Isaacs who was murdered by her ex-boyfriend in 2017.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tobago Trinibad artist Kalonji Arthur has been granted $1 million bail after appearing virtually before a magistrate yesterday.

(Reuters) – The Dominican Republic’s Luis Abinader, an anti-corruption crusader who helped catapult the island nation’s economy from pandemic lows to one of the fastest growing in Latin America, looks set for a first round victory in presidential elections on Sunday.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Mexican state energy company Pemex started sending 16,300 barrels per day (bpd) of crude oil to its new Olmeca refinery this week, less than 5% of its total capacity, internal data seen by Reuters showed, signaling another delay.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Kenyan lawyers have moved to block the country’s planned deployment of police to Haiti, a court filing showed, days before officers are expected to arrive in the Caribbean nation to tackle spiralling violence there.

(Trinidad Guardian) Self-proclaimed spy, pastor Ian Brown, is again in police custody, after he and four other affiliates of the Strategic Services Agency, including former director Roger Best, were detained by police during a 24-hour exercise between Wednesday afternoon and yesterday.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – Panama’s next government is considering erecting new checkpoints along a stretch of thick jungle on its southern border that has become a treacherous part of the journey for growing masses of U.S.-bound

PORTO ALEGRE, (Reuters) – Brazil’s southernmost state is planning at least four “tent cities” to accommodate some 8,000 people currently in improvised shelters due to the historic floods that have devastated the region.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela will not grant safe passage to leave the country to six opposition aides who have taken refuge in the Argentine embassy in Caracas, a ruling party official said late on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Express) Twenty-four pharmacies are under police probe for selling unregistered, fake or expired drugs.

(Trinidad Express) Twenty-four pharmacies are under police probe for selling unregistered, fake or expired drugs.

(Trinidad Guardian) A teenager and his brother were shot dead in an alleged police-involved shooting in St Augustine yesterday.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, (Reuters) –  Brazil’s southernmost state capital may suffer severe flooding for weeks to come, experts warn, compounding the struggles of half a million people forced to abandon their inundated homes.