LIMA, (Reuters) – Peruvian authorities said on Friday that they had launched an investigation into President Dina Boluarte for disbanding a special police force that had been investigating her brother, who was detained earlier in the day.
(Trinidad Express) The distance between Guyana and Trinidad and Tobago, as well as the route it has to take through Venezuela’s territorial waters, are two major obstacles hindering the construction of a natural gas pipeline to export gas from Guyana to T&T, ExxonMobil’s country manager Alistair Routledge has said.
Spanish galleon sank off Colombian coast in 1708 Colombia plans mission to recover ship and cargo Indigenous communities seek share in any proceeds MADRID, (Reuters) – Members of three South American indigenous communities have asked Spain and UNESCO to declare a Spanish galleon that sank 300 years ago with a bountiful cargo as “common and shared heritage” from which they too should benefit.
(Trinidad Express) A High Court judge yesterday axed a long-standing colonial policy that prison officers must be “clean-shaven” in Trinidad and Tobago.
(Trinidad Guardian) Senseless and reckless. This is how Kevon Lewis described the murder of his uncle, Siparia labour-er Leroy Sifontis, who was held up on his way to work yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) Senseless and reckless. This is how Kevon Lewis described the murder of his uncle, Siparia labourer Leroy Sifontis, who was held up on his way to work yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Express) A High Court judge yesterday axed a long-standing colonial policy that prison officers must be “clean-shaven” in Trinidad and Tobago.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s Supreme Court has ordered the country’s interior minister to testify in a corruption probe and the Constitutional Court struck down the creation of the equality ministry in a double blow for the government of President Gustavo Petro.
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Civilian contractors have arrived in Haiti to build living quarters for a Kenyan-led international security force meant to counter gang violence in the Caribbean nation, the U.S.
(Trinidad Express) Tobago’s eight murder victim is another woman. Nikesha Sandy was gunned down on the roadway in Plymouth shortly before 7a.m.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela is open to paying its debt to China – which according to independent data amounts to some $10 billion – lawmaker Nicolas Maduro Guerra, son of President Nicolas Maduro, told Reuters in an interview yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) For the first time in this country’s history an auditor general has filed a lawsuit against an attorney general.
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, (Reuters) – Authorities interrupted rescue efforts in flood-ravaged southern Brazil yesterday amid more rain and the risk of lightning and stiff winds that threaten to exacerbate a catastrophe that has already killed at least 100 people and left over 163,000 seeking shelter.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s congress, controlled by President Daniel Ortega, yesterday repealed a law which had given a little-known Chinese investor a concession of up to 100 years to build and operate a canal between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s president-elect, Jose Raul Mulino, said yesterday he will urge lawmakers to approve a law enabling the Panama Canal to build large water reservoirs in the face of an unprecedented drought that has hit the capacity of the vital waterway.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T had 11.49 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas under contract to be developed at the end of 2022, Energy Minister Stuart Young told a news conference on Tuesday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Jamaica has recorded an impressive 1.7 million visitors within the first five months of the year.
(Trinidad Express) A retired High Court judge—David Harris—will chair the team to investigate the imbroglio involving the Auditor General and the Ministry/Minister of Finance.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Widespread recent power outages in Mexico were caused by unseasonably hot weather, the country’s president said yesterday, assuring consumers that the national grid has sufficient generating capacity going forward.
(Trinidad Guardian) Up to late yesterday evening, police were still trying to determine a motive for the murders of a man and his common-law wife at their mini-mart on Penal Rock Road, Penal, on Monday night.
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