Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Kevin Francois’s last act as he came face to face with armed gunmen on Thursday night, was to shield his three-year-old son from the hail of bullets that cut him and his brother down.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A boat carrying Chinese migrants capsized off the coast of the Mexican southern state of Oaxaca, killing eight migrants, and Mexican authorities said over the weekend that they were investigating the incident.

(Trinidad Guardian) Officers of the North Central Division Major Crimes Unit, led by Sgt Thomas, later arrested the suspect, who had been locked in an apartment.

(Trinidad Guardian) Quick work by the newly formed response unit in the North Central Division led to the arrest of a suspect who killed a father and son and injured two others during a stabbing incident in Oropune Gardens, Piarco, yesterday.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean authorities yesterday said they had captured a leader of a powerful gang, Los Lobos, which has been accused of involvement in the assassination of the country’s anti-corruption presidential candidate last August.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peruvian President Dina Boluarte yesterday said she would not resign after her house was raided as part of inquiries into possible illicit enrichment and failure to declare ownership of luxury watches.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday said that its first President, Justice Michael de la Bastide passed away on 30 March 2024.

(Trinidad Express) Five weeks after he was shot in Enterprise, Chaguanas, a 46-year-old man has died at hospital.

(Trinidad Express) An elderly man who was on a visit from Canada, has been killed in his family’s home by intruders.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuban Roman Catholics held public processions across the Communist-run country yesterday to mark Good Friday, but there was at least one exception in Havana where 150 of the faithful were relegated to the church parking lot.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peruvian prosecutors raided the home of President Dina Boluarte late yesterday as part of inquiries into possible illicit enrichment and failure to declare ownership of luxury watches.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) –  Dengue cases in the Americas rose in the first three months of this year by three times the number of infections reported in the same period last year, the head of the Pan American Health Organization said yesterday.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said yesterday it is serious that a candidate could not be registered for the election in Venezuela.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Gang violence in Haiti has killed over 1,500 people so far this year, including many children, while dozens have been lynched, stoned or burned alive by so-called self-defence brigades, the U.N.

(Trinidad Express) A woman  was found dead with her hands tied in a car in Tobago which had been on fire earlier.

(Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday during his visit to Brazil that a potential agreement between the European Union and the South American Mercosur trade bloc as it stands is a “very bad deal” and more climate commitments are needed.

(Reuters) – Colombia ordered the expulsion of Argentine diplomats from their embassy in the Andean nation, Colombia’s foreign ministry said on Wednesday, citing “denigrating” comments by Argentine President Javier Milei about Colombian President Gustavo Petro.

MARACAIBO, Venezuela,  (Reuters) –  Venezuela presidential hopeful Manuel Rosales said yesterday he was willing to hand over his place on the ballot to a unity candidate, amid uncertainty over who will carry the opposition’s banner in a July contest against President Nicolas Maduro.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s former President Jair Bolsonaro told Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes yesterday he had no reason to have sought asylum at the Hungarian embassy, after the court summoned him to explain why he stayed at the diplomatic compound for two nights in February.

SANTIAGO DE CUBA,  (Reuters) – A crowd swarms the steps of a small state-run market on the outskirts of Santiago, Cuba’s second-largest city, sweating and shouting, jostling for a chance at a once-monthly ration of chicken.