Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Massy Holdings Ltd announced yesterday the early retirement of Gervase Warner, the group’s president and CEO.

(Trinidad Express) Tobago’s serene waters were yesterday marred after an overturned vessel off its south-western coast near Canoe Bay saw an ‘extensive’ oil spill polluting the area, in some cases reaching the coastline.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – At least five agents of Haiti’s BSAP, an armed environmental agency that in recent years has evolved into a paramilitary body, were killed in a shootout with national police in Port-au-Prince yesterday, the police trade union told reporters.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Dengue fever has surged in Brazil’s hot rainy season, forcing health authorities to take emergency measures and start mass vaccination against the mosquito-borne illness.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s Constitutional Court yesterday approved a request from a terminally ill patient to decriminalize euthanasia and ordered the National Assembly to approve a law regulating the procedure within a year.

NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A former Honduran police chief has pleaded guilty to a U.S.

SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s government said yesterday it had granted asylum to Panama’s former President Ricardo Martinelli, after the ex-leader, currently facing a lengthy prison sentence at home, requested the protection at Nicaragua’s embassy in Panama City.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera died from asphyxiation due to submersion after the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a lake in southern Chile on Tuesday, the local prosecutor’s office reported yesterday.

 (Reuters) – A supplier to brands including Nestle, Kellogg’s and Colgate has been farming palm oil on deforested land in one of the best-preserved areas of Peru’s Amazon rainforest, an environmental group said in an investigative report released on Wednesday.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – A major economic reform package championed by Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei will be sent back to a legislative committee for consideration, the president’s party said yesterday, marking a major setback for the bill.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A manager at a U.S. subsidiary of Mexican state oil company Pemex expected a “cash register” of bribes would “start ringing” once he gave inside information to an employee of the world’s largest oil trader, Vitol, trial evidence showed yesterday.

SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean ex-President Sebastian Pinera died in a helicopter crash today in the south of the country, three sources told Reuters.

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – The landslide re-election of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele was cheered by supporters of his gang crackdown, but has worried opponents who fear the country is sliding into a de facto one-party state.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police have charged local artiste Kman 6ixx with being a member of a gang and with possession of ammunition.

(Trinidad Express) The body of an 85-year-old Trinidad-born woman who was visiting for Carnival was found this morning in Arima.

SAN SALVADOR,  (Reuters) – President Nayib Bukele yesterday secured a thumping victory in El Salvador’s elections after voters cast aside concerns about erosion of democracy to reward him for a fierce gang crackdown that transformed security in the Central American country.

(Barbados Nation) An additional 25 000 seats out of the United States will be available for travellers when Delta Airlines makes a return to Barbados since 2016.

(Reuters) – Forest fires raging in central Chile have killed at least 46 people, President Gabriel Boric said yesterday, warning that the death toll is likely to keep rising.

(Trinidad Guardian) The United States has confirmed to Government that Trinidad and Tobago will not be directly affected by the US’ upcoming reimposition of sanctions on Venezuela’s energy sector.

(Trinidad Express) Former FIFA vice-president Austin Jack Warner says he has no doubt that the “nightmare” brought upon him by the United States government, which accused him of bribery, money laundering and other fraud-related crimes during his time as an executive of football’s governing body, is now over.