Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Chaguanas businessman Tariq Razak, 59, was gunned down outside of his business place on the western end of Eric Street yesterday morning.

… but grants Holness right to challenge reports   (Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has lost his bid to force the Integrity Commission (IC) to certify his 2022 and 2023 statutory declarations, but has been given the go-ahead to seek the court’s authority in getting the IC’s investigative report and special report invalidated.

MONTEVIDEO/BRUSSELS,  (Reuters) – The European Union and South America’s Mercosur bloc dragged a long-delayed free trade deal over the line yesterday, announcing an agreement – at least in principle – on the pact that has deeply divided nations in Europe.

(Trinidad Express) A San Fernando businessman was gunned down inside his vehicle on Thursday night.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Development Bank of Latin America and the Caribbean (CAF) has approved US$250 million in financing to support two critical resilience and sustainability initiatives in Trinidad and Tobago—resilient road infrastructure and resilient educational infrastructure.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Nearly 20 of the roughly 400 Kenyan police officers serving in Haiti on a U.N.-backed

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Nearly 20 of the roughly 400 Kenyan police officers serving in Haiti on a U.N.-backed

(Jamaica Gleaner) Trevor Patterson, longtime personal attorney for late hotel mogul Gordon ‘Butch’ Stewart, has denied allegations that he forged documents to add beneficiaries to a trust initially limited to Adam Stewart and one of his sisters.

MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Mexico is seeking an agreement with U.S. President-elect Donald Trump to ensure it does not receive deportees from third countries in case of large-scale deportations of migrants from the United States, President Claudia Sheinbaum said yesterday.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba said late on Wednesday it had reconnected its national electrical grid, though generation remained far below demand one day after a plant failure knocked out power to millions across the island.

MONTEVIDEO/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) –  European Commission President Ursula von der Leyen landed in Uruguay yesterday seeking to finalize a long-delayed trade deal between the European Union and South Ameri-ca’s Mercosur bloc, even as France slammed the agreement as “unacceptable”.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – When Brazilian Rebeca Mendes became pregnant in 2017, she fought for the right to have an abortion in her home country.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar are now in a war of words on the ANR Robinson Airport expansion project in Tobago.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba said it was generating only enough electricity to cover about 1/6th of peak demand late yesterday, hours after its national grid collapsed leaving millions without power.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva officially recognized three more Indigenous territories yesterday, pushing to 13 the number of lands to which he has granted legal protection since his latest term began in early 2023.

(Reuters) – The Bahamas’ legislature was forced to suspend its session yesterday after a heated debate about a police corruption scandal escalated, with one opposition lawmaker grabbing the symbolic parliamentary mace and throwing it out the window.

(Trinidad Express) A convicted killer, who twice lost his appeal against sentence, has been ordered set free after spending more than 32 years in prison.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) –  Colombian President Gustavo Petro said yesterday that finance vice minister Diego Guevara will step into that ministry’s top job, after previous minister Ricardo Bonilla resigned amid an ongoing corruption scandal.

MONTEVIDEO/BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – South America’s Mercosur trade bloc will meet in Uruguay today with fresh signs the group could use the event to announce a long-delayed deal with the European Union after last-minute negotiations to get it over the line.

(Trinidad Express) A contractor who escaped a hit by gunmen two months ago was gunned down in Cocoyea, San Fernando, on Tuesday night.