Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) The Integrity Commission (IC) is defending itself following Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley’s criticisms.

(Trinidad Guardian) When fire erupted at their New Grant home on Sunday night, 92-year-old Surujdai Soogrim fought to save her son instead of saving herself.

(Trinidad Express) The body of a man found in Cunupia on Saturday morning has been identified as 20-year-old Elijah Lashley.

WASHINGTON/GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government announced measures yesterday to punish what it has described as anti-democratic moves by officials including Guatemala’s top prosecutor that seek to annul the election won decisively by President-elect Bernardo Arevalo.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Three Cubans are facing up to 30 years in jail for anti-government propaganda and violence, state-run media said, in attacks authorities allege were funded from outside Cuba and aimed to destabilize the island’s government.

(Trinidad Guardian) One Colombian male and two females from the Dominican Republic who were charged with Human Trafficking offences and an offence under the Children’s Act were all denied bail when they appeared before a Scarborough Magistrate on 4th December 2023.

SAO JOSE DO NORTE, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Nearly 1,000 seals and sea lions in southern Brazil have died from bird flu outbreaks, say authorities, who are scrambling to isolate the deadly virus from commercial poultry flocks.

BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina libertarian economist Javier Milei took office on Sunday warning in his maiden speech that he had no alternative to a sharp, painful fiscal shock to fix the country’s worst economic crisis in decades, with inflation heading towards 200%.

(Reuters) – The collapse of an artisanal gold mine in southeastern Venezuela near an Indigenous community killed at least 12 people, the government announced on Sunday.

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A fire in a camp belonging to Brazil’s Landless Workers’ Movement MST in the northern state of Para killed nine people and left eight injured on Saturday night, the movement said on Sunday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The president of the Trinidad and Tobago Hockey Board, Roger St Rose, has been charged by the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service with two counts of sexual penetration of a boy under the age of 16 years.

(Trinidad Guardian) Moments before robbing and murdering businessman Videsh Maharaj at his New Grant home yesterday morning, the gunman calmly greeted the victim’s wife as he walked past her.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s President-elect Bernardo Arevalo yesterday forcefully rejected a legal maneuver from prosecutors to invalidate his election triumph, calling the effort an “attempted coup.”

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – Panama’s trade and industry ministry has ordered Canada’s First Quantum to end operations at its lucrative copper mine, the firm’s unit in the country said on Friday.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – The United Nations Security Council yesterday said it had approved the addition of four suspected Haitian gang leaders to its sanctions list, a long-awaited addition as the Caribbean nation faces a worsening humanitarian crisis.

(Trinidad Guardian) In a passionate plea directed at business owners, High Court Judge Frank Seepersad urged them to stop paying bribes to further their enterprises.

(Trinidad Guardian) A Venezuelan man is currently assisting police in their investigations surrounding the death of his 55-year-old common-law wife.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Presidents of the four Mercosur nations met for their annual summit yesterday with black clouds hovering over the fate of a trade deal with the European Union, as well as the future of the South American common market itself.

SAN JOSE,  (Reuters) – China forcefully rejected cyber-security and spying concerns on Thursday raised by Costa Rica’s president as he explained why Chinese tech company Huawei HWT.UL

(Trinidad Guardian) The National Gas Company (NGC) now has a 10 per cent stake in a landmark agreement for a new commercial structure for Atlantic LNG, which was signed in London on Tuesday.