LIMA, (Reuters) – The Chinese state-owned company at the centre of a dispute over operations of a megaport it is building on Peru’s Pacific coast insisted yesterday on terms agreed with the government, as some local officials have sought to backtrack on the deal.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. issued visa restrictions against executives of several Colombia maritime companies allegedly linked to migrant transportation to the Colombia-Panama border, a senior U.S.
(Trinidad Express) Renowned Caribbean health researcher and scholar Professor Emeritus David Picou has died at the age of 97.
ELDORADO DO SUL, Brazil, (Reuters) – Rescuers rushed to evacuate people stranded by devastating floods across the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul yesterday, with at least 90 dead, thousands left homeless, and desperate survivors seeking food and basic supplies.
(Trinidad Guardian) The estimated costs of the clean-up operation so far for the Tobago oil spill at the central Government level is around US$12 million but by the end of the exercise it could increase to as much as US$30 million, says Energy Minister Stuart Young.
(Trinidad Guardian) St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says “unsuccessful attempts” had been made to impugn the character of the former president of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Dr Hyginus “Gene” Leon, whom he described as “a distinguished son of our Caribbean civilisation from St Lucia”.
(Trinidad Guardian) The United States Assistant Secretary for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement, and the U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) The estimated costs of the clean-up operation so far for the Tobago oil spill at the central Government level is around US$12 million but by the end of the exercise it could increase to as much as US$30 million, says Energy Minister Stuart Young.
(Trinidad Guardian) St Vincent and the Grenadines Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves says “unsuccessful attempts” had been made to impugn the character of the former president of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) Dr Hyginus “Gene” Leon, whom he described as “a distinguished son of our Caribbean civilisation from St Lucia”.
(Trinidad Express) A 29-year-old man who has been called ‘the prime suspect’ in the mass shooting reported in Cocorite on Saturday night which claimed the lives of four men, and injured eight others, has been held attempting to flee the country.
(Trinidad Guardian) Despite recently opening its flagship Miniso store at the Falls Westmall, found-er and CEO of First Retail Inc, Omar Hadeed, says the company’s local growth will “now be slowed” as the foreign exchange (forex) problem continues to be very challenging.
HOUSTON/NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Indian oil refiner Reliance Industries RELI.NS has resubmitted a request to the U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian)Tobago investigators have identified the body found over a precipice in Mt St George as 32-year-old Shellon Walters-Joseph, of Mt Marie, Scarborough.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s former security minister Jose Raul Mulino on Sunday stormed to victory in a presidential poll dominated by his old boss, the popular ex-leader Ricardo Martinelli, who buttressed his campaign despite being holed up in Nicaragua’s embassy.
(Trinidad Express) Four people were killed and eight injured in a mass shooting at Powder Magazine in Cocorite on Saturday night.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The parents of an American and two Australian surfers presumed to have been killed in northern Mexico have arrived in the country and will try to identify the dead bodies believed to be their children, a Mexican regional official said on Sunday.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said on Sunday he had to be hospitalized again in the northern city of Manaus due to a skin infection caused by a bacteria, adding there is no forecast for when he could be discharged.
(Trinidad Guardian) Four people are dead, and eight others wounded following a shooting in Cocorite, on Saturday night.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – More than a million people thronged Brazil’s Copacabana beach for a free Madonna concert yesterday, braving the heat to see the end of her “Celebration” world tour.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Heavy rains in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul this week killed at least 55 people, local authorities said last evening, while dozens remain unaccounted for.
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