PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s transition council today named Edgard Leblanc, the former senate president, to head the body instated last week as it seeks to bring security back to the violence-wracked Caribbean nation.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 25-year-old woman has partially succeeded in a lawsuit over protracted delays by the T&T Police Service (TTPS) in investigating a child pornography ring she was a victim of.
(Trinidad Guardian) Port-of-Spain Division Area East head, ASP Ramesh Soodeen, is warning citizens to be wary of certain parts of the capital city.
(Trinidad Guardian) Finance Minister Colm Imbert has sought legal counsel on a letter from Auditor General Jaiwantie Ramdass’ attorney Anand Ramlogan SC’s Freedom Chambers, which Imbert says contains “outrageous, false and defamatory accusations and allegations”.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s oilseed and maritime worker unions kicked off a strike yesterday to protest a labour reform bill backed by radical libertarian President Javier Milei, which lawmakers began debating earlier in the day.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s new transition council is set to choose the country’s next president tomorrow, but leaders of the gangs who have exerted increasing control are clamoring for political influence and amnesties and threatening violence if their demands are not met.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Indian High Commissioner to Jamaica Masakui Rungsung says a medical camp held earlier this month at the Mustard Seed Communities’ Jacob’s Ladder in Haddon, St Ann, was the least his office could do to help the plight of Haitian children with disabilities who arrived in Jamaica in March.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Auditor General Jaiwantie Ramdass has fired back at Finance Minister Colm Imbert and Attorney General Reginald Armour, SC, via a pre-action protocol letter, over alleged erroneous statements made in Parliament last Friday about her audited report on the nation’s finances.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s main opposition presidential candidate Xochitl Galvez called her rival, frontrunner Claudia Sheinbaum, “the candidate of lies” during a pre-election debate yesterday and dared her to drink a bottle of water from the capital city she governed.
(Reuters) – A bus crash on the outskirts of Mexico City killed 18 people yesterday, while another 32 were injured, according to the state of Mexico’s civil protection agency.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Dr Dodridge Miller has been appointed Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI).
(Trinidad Guardian) Government and Auditor General Jaiwantie Ramdass appear to be at loggerheads over an error detected in T&T’s 2023 revenue data.
(Reuters) – Three police officers were killed yesterday in southern Chile during what President Gabriel Boric called a cowardly attack that led him to declare three days of national mourning.
(Reuters) – Haiti’s transition council yesterday said it will vote for the country’s next president on Tuesday as part of efforts to bring the Caribbean country under control amid rampant gang violence.
(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of businessman Earle Samsoondeen huddled in fear inside their home as some 20 gunshots rang out, unaware that he was under attack at their front gate.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago will have its first ever country pavilion at the Offshore Technology Conference set to be held in Houston next month.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Tobago House of Assembly is offering a $10,000 reward to registered fishermen who successfully capture the shark involved in today’s shark attack leaving a British national seriously injured.
HUMAITA, Brazil, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In November, Pedro and two of his sons rushed to the river and sank their mining boat under the brown water to hide it from officials patrolling the Amazon area as Brazil’s government cracks down on wildcat gold miners.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Gang violence within the community of Grange Hill, Westmoreland, has left a grade 10 schoolboy, 16-year-old Carson Bennett, dead and his female schoolmate of Grange Hill High School hospitalised.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – At least 10 people died and 11 were injured in the early hours this morning in a major fire at a guesthouse in Brazil’s southern city of Porto Alegre, said the Rio Grande do Sul state fire department, which is still searching for the missing.
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