UNITED NATIONS/PORT-AU-PRINCE, 2 (Reuters) – Haiti’s capital is almost completely cut off by air, sea and land blockades as gang violence intensifies, stopping aid from getting to 58,000 children with the most life-threatening form of malnutrition, the head of the U.N.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s attorney general’s office and national police said today they have recaptured a well-known alleged leader of the Los Lobos gang – Fabricio Colon Pico Suarez – who escaped from prison in January.
(Trinidad Guardian) Approximately 50,000 barrels of liquid waste have been extracted from Tobago’s coastline between Scarborough and Cove in clean-up operations after the February 7 oil spill from the capsized barge there—and clean-up continues.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s President Daniel Noboa has won significant voter support for a raft of security measures he says will help him fight sharply increased crime, a quick vote tally by the national electoral council showed on Sunday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Armed gangs launched fresh attacks on parts of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince ahead of the installation of a transitional council set to usher in a new government, local media said today, reporting arson and heavy gunfire in the city centre.
BOGOTA, Reuters) – Tens of thousands of Colombians marched on Sunday to reject economic and social reforms being proposed by the leftist government of President Gustavo Petro, the latest in a series of demonstrations against Petro’s policies The reforms, which Petro says will fight deep inequality but which opponents say will damage the country’s already-struggling economy, were key campaign promises for the 64-year-old leader, who took office in 2022.
(Trinidad Express) Nineteen babies died last year in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) at the North-West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA).
(Trinidad Guardian) Former energy minister Kevin Ramnarine is disputing statements made by Energy Minister Stuart Young that the decision by the US government to reimpose sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector does not affect the special amended licence that was issued to the Government of T&T on October 17, 2023.
(Trinidad Guardian) Registered nurse Natasha Samuel says her baby girl Skiye died at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital NICU on April 9.
(Trinidad Guardian) Registered nurse Natasha Samuel says her baby girl Skiye died at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital NICU on April 9.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s major opposition coalition will back Edmundo Gonzalez for president in July’s election, its leadership said yesterday, after intense internal negotiations to determine who could take on President Nicolas Maduro.
St Kitts and Nevis Prime Minister Dr. Terrance Drew (centre) participated in a signing ceremony of a historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between UAE-based K&K Group and Siemens Energy, a global leader in the energy business to initiate a geothermal energy project in the Federation.
(Reuters) – More than 2,500 people were killed or injured in gang violence in Haiti from January through March, up 53% from the last three months of 2023, the United Nations Integrated Office in Haiti (BINUH) said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Following the United States’ decision Wednesday to resume sanctions against Venezuela, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley clarified that as it stands, the Dragon gas arrangement is unaffected.
OIAPOQUE, Brazil, (Reuters) – State-run energy firm Petrobras has hit growing resistance from Indigenous groups and government agencies to its premier exploration project, which would open the most promising part of Brazil’s northern coast to oil drilling.
(Trinidad Express) DNA tests have confirmed that the body of a woman found in Arima in October is that of 23-year-old Alisha Phillip.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T’s Ministry of Energy said yesterday that the decision by the US government to reimpose sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector does not affect the special amended licence that was issued to the Government of T&T on October 17, 2023.
(Trinidad Guardian) The list of babies who died recently at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) in the Port-of-Spain General Hospital (POSGH), due to a suspected bacterial infection, continued to grow yesterday as lawyers identified three others, bringing the current running total to 11.
WASHINGTON/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The Biden administration said it would not renew a license set to expire early today that had broadly eased Venezuela oil sanctions, moving to reimpose punitive measures in response to President Nicolas Maduro’s failure to meet his election commitments.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – A woman brought a 68-year-old man in a wheelchair into a bank branch and tried to get him to sign for a loan, but he had been dead for hours, Brazilian police said today.
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