(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says while the Tobago oil spill isn’t completely under control, it remains manageable and the situation should improve with additional resources.
(Trinidad Guardian) Massy Holdings’ president and chief executive Gervase Warner says the disruption caused by the company’s annual general meeting led to his early exit from the organisation.
(Trinidad Express) A major disaster continued to impact Tobago on Friday as an overturned oil products tanker called Gulfstream kept spewing black oily deposits into the ocean, eventually reaching from Scarborough to Lowlands.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba has charged 30 people for stealing 133 tonnes of chicken and selling them on the street in a rare major heist at a time of food shortages in the communist-run nation.
(Trinidad Express) A Muslim police officer who mounted a legal challenge against him being prohibited from growing his beard due to his religious belief has had his claim dismissed.
(Trinidad Guardian) Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Chief Secretary Farley Augustine says he may declare the oil spill on the island a tier three disaster by today.
(Reuters) – A former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informant was sentenced to life in prison and another man pleaded guilty yesterday in a U.S.
By John Kemp
LONDON, (Reuters) – Brazil’s gas imports fell to their lowest level for two decades in 2023 as its brimming hydroelectric reservoirs and rapid wind and solar deployment hit thermal power demand.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama denied a request from Nicaragua to allow safe passage for ex-President Ricardo Martinelli to leave the country, according to a foreign ministry statement published on Friday, after the former leader was granted asylum by the Nicaraguan government.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – State energy company Pemex released large volumes of methane from an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico last year, with leaks recurring even after a United Nations agency flagged problems there to the Mexican government, according to a Reuters analysis of previously unreported U.N.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher has been ordered to reopen the screening process for prospective officers to include those who may have been previously excluded due to their height.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian police today confiscated former President Jair Bolsonaro’s passport and accused him of editing a draft decree to overturn election results, pressuring military chiefs to join a coup attempt and plotting to jail a Supreme Court justice.