Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Lisa Agard has been replaced as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of TSTT with immediate effect.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Electricity consumption in Brazil broke records on Monday afternoon, topping 100.95 gigawatts (GW) for the first time ever as regions across the country face extremely high temperatures.

MEXICO CITY,  (Reuters) – Prominent non-binary Mexican activist Ociel Baena was slain with a razor blade, a local prosecutor said on Tuesday, in a suspected murder that has led to an outpouring of grief from members of the country’s LGBT community.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Unicomer Group yesterday confirmed that there was a cyberattack against Courts, one of its subsidiaries.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A man who was falsely arrested and charged in January 2011 for obtaining goods by false pretences and conspiracy to defraud, arising from the purchase of an AC Delco battery, has been successful in obtaining a Supreme Court award of $14 million with interest against the Government.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Unicomer Group yesterday confirmed that there was a cyberattack against Courts, one of its subsidiaries.

(Trinidad Express) Disgraced king’s counsel Vincent Nelson has filed an appeal to have his conviction set aside on the grounds of abuse of executive power and misconduct, breach of promise not to prosecute, or both.

(Trinidad Express) Seven police officers attached to the Northern Division task force will appear before an Arima Magistrate on Tuesday charged with misbehaviour in public office.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Kalifa Williams, who was freed in the recent Clansman-One Don Gang trial, was shot and killed by the police during an operation in Wynter’s Pen in Spanish Town, St Catherine today.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is calling for an immediate casefire in the current Middle East conflict between Israel and Hamas in the Gaza Strip.

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Thousands of people took to the streets of the Honduran capital yesterday in anti-government protests against leftist President Xiomara Castro, angered by attempts to engineer what they say is an unconstitutional power grab.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Donald Trump, if re-elected in 2024, would expand his first-term immigration crackdown to include sweeping roundups of undocumented people who would be held in large camps to await deportation, the New York Times reported yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) Eight years’ imprisonment was the sentence imposed on two former employees at the Foreign Affairs Ministry after they were found guilty, last month, of trafficking cocaine to New York, Canada and London two decades ago.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Central Bank of T&T (CBTT) says the decision to suspend the exchange of TT dollar banknotes by the Bank of Jamaica was taken to reduce costs and to prevent the possibility of criminal activities, including money laundering.

COJATA, Bolivia, (Reuters) – The exposed crack-ed floors of parts of Lake Titicaca, South America’s largest body of fresh water and the highest navigable lake in the world nestled amid the Andes mountains, are an alarming sight for local farmer Manuel Flores.

(Trinidad Guardian) Reena Ramadhar, 39, and her daughter Rehanna Bhaggan, 14, died when fire gutted their shack at Cemetary Street, Warner Village, Chaguanas around midnight yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Central Bank of T&T (CBTT) says the decision to suspend the exchange of TT dollar banknotes by the Bank of Jamaica was taken to reduce costs and to prevent the possibility of criminal activities, including money laundering.

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – An unusual statement by Israeli spy agency Mossad saying that it had helped foil a Hezbollah attack in Brazil is the latest incident to strain relations between Israel and Latin America’s largest nation against the backdrop of the Gaza war.

(Trinidad Guardian) The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has urged the Surinamese government to implement a more effective social protection programme.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon dropped by 22.3% in the 12 months through July, government data showed yesterday, as President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva made good on a pledge to rein in the destruction that happened under his predecessor Jair Bolsonaro.