Regional News

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump today said he was reversing a license given to Chevron CVX.N 

(Trinidad Express) Penal labourer Lucky Jagdeo whose body was found in a river a short distance from his home was strangled and beaten to death.

(Trinidad Express) When Pandit Sunil Seetahal Maharaj took a dig at the Stink+Dutty fete and wining patrons in an address to his devotees at the Ganesh Utsav Foundation’s Maha Shivaratri celebrations on Monday, he did not expect his unconventional call to worship would ricochet across social media.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Armed gangs launched a fresh attack on Haiti’s capital before dawn yesterday, killing residents in the Delmas 30 neighbourhood and causing more residents to flee as gangs continue to operate unchecked in the Caribbean nation.

(Barbados Nation) The following is a statement  yesterday from Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley on the changes to the Cabinet.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – A massive power outage across Chile plunged the country’s capital Santiago into darkness yesterday and knocked out electricity to major copper mines in the country’s north, buffeting global metal markets.

WASHINGTON/HAVANA,  (Reuters) – The United States has expanded a visa restriction policy to target Cuban officials believed to be tied to a labour programme that sends Cuban workers overseas, particularly healthcare workers, U.S.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) –  Mexico’s lower house of Congress yesterday approved a constitutional reform to ban the planting of genetically modified (GM) corn, a move that could lead to more tension with the United States after the resolution of a trade dispute, analysts said.

(Trinidad Express) ‘NOBODY could bring back my son’. These were the words of Azard Mohammed, the grieving father of La Romaine painter Zaid Mohammed, who sustained multiple injuries when he got into a fight after leaving a bar on Sunday night.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Accused Mexican drug kingpin Ismael “El Mayo” Zambada is willing to plead guilty in a deal with prosecutors in the United States if the arrangement spares him from the death penalty, his lawyer told Reuters on Monday.

SAO PAULO/BRASILIA(Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff, now the head of the BRICS bloc’s development bank, has been hospitalized in Shanghai, Brazilian newspaper Folha de Sao Paulo reported on Monday, citing the hospital.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba’s top cigar maker Habanos said on Monday that sales of the company’s luxurious smokes had soared to a record $827 million in 2024 as revenue poured in from fast-growing markets in China and elsewhere in Asia.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – A Kenyan police officer was killed yesterday in Haiti north of the capital, Port-au-Prince, the first casualty since the Kenyan-led security mission arrived in the Caribbean country in June 2024, the mission’s authorities said.

(Trinidad Guardian) Soca star Machel Montano has apologised to rapper, singer and songwriter Nicki Minaj for what he deems “a mistake misunderstanding on his part” for comments made at the Stink N Dutty fete.

(Trinidad Express) Three people were killed and a six-year-old boy injured when gunmen barged into a house at Guanapo, Arima, on Saturday night and opened fire.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Dr Andrew Holness has hailed the strong backing of Spanish investors as a resounding vote of confidence in Jamaica’s tourism future.

(Trinidad Guardian) There is growing unease among Trinidad and Tobago nationals living in the United States during President Donald Trump’s second term, as many fear mass deportations.

(Trinidad Guardian) In an attempt to combat rising gang violence in Caricom, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, who is the regional body’s lead on crime and security, says steps are being taken to strengthen laws to now treat gun violence as an act of terrorism.

(Trinidad Guardian) The search is ongoing for Able Seaman Keiron Simon, who was pulled underwater inside a sinking vessel during a multinational drug bust in local waters between T&T and Grenada on Thursday.

BURITICUPU, Brazil,  (Reuters) – The city of Buriticupu, in the northeastern tip of the Brazilian Amazon, is being slowly swallowed by the earth.