Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) A regional ferry system may be on the horizon to journey through Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.

(Trinidad Express) A gunman broke into a family’s home in Tabaquite before dawn today and killed a man.

(Trinidad Express) While there will be leading political figures in attendance at the state funeral for the late former prime minister Basdeo Panday today, none of them will be speaking at the service.

(Trinidad Guardian) A regional ferry system may be on the horizon to journey through Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian authorities celebrated their country’s democratic system yesterday, a year after a right-wing crowd invaded and vandalized its Supreme Court, Congress and presidential palace in protest against an election result.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – At least 25 people are dead and six injured after a minibus carrying tourists from a coastal trip collided with a truck in Brazil’s northeastern state of Bahia, local authorities said yesterday.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa on Monday declared a state of emergency for 60 days a day after the country’s most-wanted prisoner disappeared from the jail where he was being held.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia and Ecuador broke up a criminal organization responsible for sending up to five tons of cocaine per month to the U.S.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil will hold ceremonies in the capital celebrating its democratic system one year after a right-wing mob invaded and vandalized Brazil’s Congress, its Supreme Court and the presidential palace to protest an election result.

(Trinidad Express) Fifteen people have been murdered in just the first week of the new year.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican authorities in the violence-plagued southwestern state of Guerrero said they were investigating a gruesome massacre that took place in a part of a remote desert where two rival criminal groups have been fighting for control.

(Trinidad Guardian) Police are searching for two men who shot a Pasea businessman before crashing their getaway car in a nearby drain on Saturday evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) A former transport minister under the United National Congress (UNC) is applauding a plan by T&T, Guyana and Barbados to create a company that will establish a ferry service between the islands.

(Barbados Today) Almost 50 years after returning to the skies under the ownership of Caribbean governments, the 67-year-old island-hopper LIAT is to wind up in its current form –  LIAT (1974) Ltd – on January 24, its court-appointed administrator confirmed on Thursday.

(Trinidad Express) Time seemed to have stood still as members of the Defence Force bore the body of the late former prime minister Basdeo Panday in a coffin, draped in the national colours of red, white and black, through the streets of the capital city of Port of Spain, yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The autopsies on the bodies of Shevonne Moffat and Gemma Alexis have come back as inconclusive, and police will now await toxicology reports on the bodies.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A former oil trader at Vitol, one of the world’s largest energy trading companies, paid officials in Mexico and Ecuador nearly $1 million in bribes to win contracts worth around $500 million, a U.S.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Peace talks between Colombia’s government and the largest FARC dissident group managed to get the rebels to suspend kidnappings, free 10 hostages, and reduce clashes with the country’s military in under three months, a government negotiator said yesterday.

LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivia announced a record cocaine seizure from the country’s western Oruro department, officials said on Friday, giving the drugs a local street value of $224 million but nearly double that in Europe where the illicit cargo was likely headed.

(Trinidad Guardian) Local entertainer Akhenathon “Yung Bredda” Lewis is calling out citizens, in particular fellow artistes, for their silence on the crime situation.