Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Minutes before gunmen shot and killed three men in Morvant on Tuesday night, residents said the trio were warned to get inside and stay there as talks of an impending attack were circulated.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei is barred from entering the U.S.

DAVOS, Switzerland,  (Reuters) – Brazil will need to relocate citizens in areas that have been hit repeatedly by storms and other disasters supercharged by climate change, the country’s Environment Minister Marina Silva told Reuters in Davos, Switzerland yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A third person is now dead after gunmen wearing tactical gear opened fire on a group in Morvant on Tuesday night.

The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has welcomed the recent decision by Suriname’s highest court, the Hof van Justitie, to uphold the 20-year prison sentence of former President Desiré Delano Bouterse for the torture and extrajudicial execution of 15 political opponents in 1982.

BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) –After an 80-year struggle to regain control of their ancestral lands in Ecuador’s Amazon rainforest, the Indigenous Siekopai people are set to return after a historic court ruling ordered the government to grant the community property titles.

(Trinidad Guardian) As it stands now, there will be no International Soca Monarch for the 2024 Carnival season.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemala’s new liberal president, Bernardo Arevalo, took office early yesterday after an extended delay that underlined the uphill struggle he faces to meet high expectations and enact a sweeping anti-graft agenda in opposition-controlled Congress.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) –  Venezuela’s economy grew more than 5% in 2023 and growth will reach 8% this year, President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday during his annual address to the government-allied legislature.

(Trinidad Express) A man who opened fire with a shotgun in Las Lomas on Sunday night killed a 15-year-old girl and injured a 20-year-old woman.

LIMA,  (Reuters) –  Spanish energy giant Rep-sol REP.MC faces a class action lawsuit with 30,000 alleged victims in Peru stemming from a major oil spill in 2022, the law firm representing the class said yesterday, as a small protest marked two years since the incident.

(Trinidad Guardian) US Ambassador to T&T Candace Bond has affirmed the strong ties between the two countries and has assured that those good relations will continue in 2024.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Anti-corruption crusader Bernardo Arevalo was sworn in as Guatemala’s president in the early hours of today after a chaotic inauguration that was delayed for hours by a last-ditch attempt by Congress opponents to weaken his authority.

SAN JOSE (Reuters) – Nicaragua said it expelled 19 clergymen to the Vatican on Sunday, including Catholic Bishop Rolando Alvarez, a prominent critic of President Daniel Ortega.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemala’s Congress resumed its session today  after an hours-long delay to the inauguration of Guatemalan President-elect Bernardo Arevalo and new lawmakers, a holdup that stoked tensions in the Central American nation.

(Trinidad Express) Attorney Kerywn Garcia, SC, the husband of President Christine Kangaloo, has been appointed by Massy to investigate the claims made by its former executive vice president of business integrity and group general counsel Angélique Parisot-Potter about its executive leadership programme.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) –  Officials were scrambling to free survivors yesterday after a mudslide brought on by heavy rains in northwest Colombia killed at least 34 people and injured dozens on a busy highway.

QUITO, (Reuters) – Forty-two prison staff members who had been held by inmates at prisons in Ecuador amid a sharp uptick in violence were freed or escaped, the SNAI prisons agency said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Over 400 members of staff who work in government offices across multiple ministries have been adequately trained on the new dress code policy for members of the public who visit these offices to conduct business. 

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – Guatemala’s President-elect Bernardo Arevalo met with  Tai-wan’s   minister to discuss strengthening commercial ties yesterday, the Central American nation’s incoming government said in a statement.