Regional News

APIA, Samoa,  (Reuters) – Commonwealth leaders, ending a week-long summit in Samoa, said yesterday the time had come for a discussion on whether Britain should commit to reparations for its role in the transatlantic slave trade.

(Trinidad Guardian) McCartha Linda “Calypso Rose” Sandy-Lewis was among eight icons in Tobago honoured by the Tobago House of Assembly on Friday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A T&T national has been extradited to the United States to face charges for 128 counts of sex crime offences against children.

(Trinidad Express) Specialist maritime attorney Nyree Alfonso says that arresting the tug Solo Creed to recover $244 million could become “a case of the candle costing more than the funeral,” as she believes the expenses and efforts of this legal pursuit might ultimately outweigh any financial recovery.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil yesterday signed a 170 billion reais ($29.85 billion) compensation agreement with miners BHP BHP.AX,

QUITO,  (Reuters) – A criminal prosecutor in Ecuador was killed by armed assailants yesterday along with his police escort, in the latest eruption of violent crime to shake the South American nation.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Electricity was cut off today on the entire French overseas territory of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean after the motors at the main power station were turned off by workers on strike, the local prefectural authority said.

MEXICO CITY, – The fate of Latin American economies, deeply reliant on remittances from the U.S.,

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has canceled the trips to the United Nations summits COP16 in Colombia and COP29 in Azerbaijan, his office said yesterday, following medical advice after he suffered a head injury last weekend.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil today signed a 170 billion reais ($29.85 billion) compensation agreement with miners BHP BHP.AX, Vale VALE3.SA and

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Electricity was cut off today on the entire French overseas territory of Guadeloupe in the Caribbean after the motors at the main power station were turned off by workers on strike, the local prefectural authority said.

(Trinidad Guardian)  Minister of Foreign and Caricom Affairs Dr Amery Browne has called for the removal of what he called “imperial arrogance” from discussion on repatriations.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Caribbean is leading by example, according to the International Monetary Fund IMF managing director Kristalina Georgieva.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Looters ransacked shops overnight on the French Caribbean island of Martinique as violent protests against rising living costs showed little sign of abating despite the imposition of a curfew.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – More than 10,000 people in Haiti have been internally displaced in the last week as armed gangs operating in and around the capital Port-au-Prince ramp up attacks on areas they do not yet control, according U.N.

(Trinidad Express) Police are still searching for kidnapped businessman Suvesh Ramnarine.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has arrested the Solo Creed tug in African country Angola, eight months after the vessel is believed to have abandoned the Gulf Stream barge and caused the oil spill disaster off Cove, Tobago.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department said yesterday that a Venezuelan television news network owner was charged in an alleged $1.2 billion money laundering scheme.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian authorities will sign tomorrow a long-awaited reparation deal with miners Vale VALE3.SA,

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican state oil company Pemex aims to increase its hydrocarbon reserves and ensure their restitution during the government of new President Claudia Sheinbaum, according to an internal Pemex document seen by Reuters yesterday.