BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s cash-strapped government will raise $3.2 billion in hard currency in order to meet debt repayments via an issuance of 10-year bills to the central bank, according to a decree in the official gazette today.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has come under fire for his “attack” on Integrity Commission (IC) chairman Dr Rajendra Ramlogan.
(Trinidad Express) Two men were shot dead and three others injured during an attack in front the Tunapuna Market, along the Eastern Main Road, last night.
(Trinidad Guardian) The State funeral for former prime minister Basdeo Panday will be held next Tuesday at the Southern Academy for the Performing Arts (SAPA), according to a reliable source.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has labelled a claim of underfunding by the Integrity Commission as an ‘interesting perspective’.
(Trinidad Guardian) Intensive investigations and coordinated efforts by officers of the Northern Division and other Units resulted in the arrest of a suspect wanted in connection with a double murder, which occurred on Tuesday in the Western Division.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The city of Dourados in the Brazilian state of Mato Grosso do Sul yesterday began the country’s first mass vaccination against dengue, the city’s government said.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – A top Argentine court yesterday suspended a package of labor reforms decreed by new President Javier Milei last month, after the nation’s largest union filed an injunction.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of National Security Fitzgerald Hinds has confirmed that former prime minister Basdeo Panday will be given a State funeral.
(Trinidad Express) The soldier wanted in connection with the murder of his estranged wife and mother in law at a house in Shorelands this morning was held by police last night.
(Trinidad Express) Gunmen opened fire on a car in Woodbrook, Port of Spain shortly after midnight yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Kidnapped businesswoman Aneisha Narine-Boodhoo has been found. Confirmation came yesterday from the Hunters Search and Rescue Team led by Shamshudeen Ayub Details are still coming in however Guardian Media was told Narine-Boodhoo is currently at the hospital seeking medical attention.
(Trinidad Express) Five days after being snatched, El Socorro businesswoman Anesha Narine-Boodhoo has been found.
(Trinidad Guardian) Basdeo Panday, who served as T&T’s fifth prime minister from 1995 to 2001, was the first person of Indian descent and the first Hindu to hold that office.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A former employee of the world’s largest oil trader, Vitol, is set to go on trial in the United States this week on charges of bribing officials in Ecuador to win a $300 million contract from state oil company Petroecuador.
(Trinidad Express) Basdeo Panday has passed away. His death was announced by daughter Mickela Panday this afternoon.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Vice President Geraldo Alckmin yesterday unveiled government measures aimed at providing companies with tax benefits so they can buy new machinery and invest in transportation.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador has reached an agreement with an Indigenous community in the country’s Orellana province to end the group’s blockade of oil projects in the area, the ministry of energy and mining said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Massy has appointed an “independent external counsel” (who they refused to identify) 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.
(Trinidad Express) A 14-year-old has been identified as the suspect who shot and killed two men on Friday night.
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