PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Attacks flared in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince yesterday as political groups appeared to get nearer to finalizing a transition council set to take over from an absent government, including a shootout which left another gang leader dead.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday sanctioned Nicaragua’s attorney general for her role in the government’s “unjust persecution of political prisoners and civil society,” the U.S.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Brazil is weighing options to import natural gas from Argentina’s massive Vaca Muerta formation, and especially the possible reversal of a line currently used for transporting Bolivian gas, as it looks to ease its gas deficit, Mines and Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira told Reuters yesterday.
(Reuters) – Suspected gang members were killed during an attack on the Petion-Ville neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Haiti’s capital, as a clash with police and locals pointed to a resurgence of vigilante justice while the state remains absent.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela attorney general Tarek Saab said yesterday that two people close to opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado had been arrested, prompting Machado to call the charges leveled at her team “completely false.”
(Reuters) – Residents in the upscale neighbourhood of Petion-Ville on the outskirts of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince barricaded themselves in their homes today, local media reported, citing heavy gunfire and bodies found on the street.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Weighing in on the raging debate surrounding the recent Privy Council quashing of Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer’s murder conviction, former Prime Minister Patterson and his colleague King’s Counsel Hugh Small said the decision taken to proceed with the trial after the jury-tampering incident “was not merely a risk but a fatal error”.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Acting House Leader and the minister responsible for gender, Olivia Grange, says Opposition Leader Mark Golding has brought the House of Representatives into disrepute by questioning the election of Juliet Holness as House Speaker.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The United States is seeing some “negative signals” regarding Venezuela’s commitment to free elections that could mean sanctions on its oil industry may not be extended, a U.S.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police formally accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of fraud on his vaccination records, opening the door to criminal charges, according to a police report seen by Reuters yesterday.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivian police have carried out the second-largest drug bust in the country’s history, seizing more than 7.2 tons of cocaine destined for Belgium with a street value of nearly half a billion U.S.
(Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police indicted the country’s former president Jair Bolsonaro for suspected fraud on his vaccination records, two sources related to the matter said on Tuesday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – At least ten people were killed in a wealthy suburb of Haiti’s capital yesterday, there were reports of looting, and thefts of electricity equipment cut the power supply as lawlessness spread to affluent areas and gangs tightened their grip on the city.
(Reuters) – A U.S. government research team found no significant physical evidence of brain injury in a group of federal employees suffering symptoms of the “Havana syndrome” ailment that emerged in 2016, according to studies published in a medical journal yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona paid $1.3 million for the rental of a luxury vehicle to transport Vice Chancellor Professor Sir Hilary Beckles, following a motor-vehicle crash that disabled the 2023 BMW X6 assigned to him.