Regional News

(Trinidad Express) At around 1:40 p.m. on Friday officers went to a home on St.

(Trinidad Guardian) Just days before their divorce was to be finalised, a T&T woman was fatally shot by her abusive estranged husband outside a house in Katy, Texas, in the United States.

(Trinidad Guardian) It was a bittersweet moment for the National Security Ministry and Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) yesterday, as despite successfully achieving the first-ever conviction under this country’s human trafficking laws, the perpetrator broke free of his electronic monitor bracelet and is now on the run.

(Trinidad Guardian) Jamaica’s central bank, which is called the Bank of Jamaica (BOJ), announced yesterday that it was suspending the exchange of T&T banknotes at its banking counter effective Monday “until further advised.”

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden and leaders from Canada, Latin America and the Caribbean yesterday pledged to strengthen the Western Hemisphere’s supply chains as Washington works to counter China and stem regional migration.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – Latin America and the Caribbean are poised for stronger growth in coming years, buoyed by yesterday’s agreement by the United States, Canada and 10 countries to strengthen regional supply chains, the head of the Inter-American Development Bank said.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia and its neighbours will together push six key themes at this year’s UN climate conference, including help adapting to global warming and swapping debt for climate mitigation, the country’s Environment Minister Susana Muhamad said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The fatal shooting of Steffen Belgrave and Darnell Pierre on Wednesday night at Jeffers Lane, St James, has raised concerns among members of that community.

HOUSTON/SINGAPORE,  (Reuters) – China’s PetroChina 601857.SS is proposing to buy up to 8 million barrels a month of Venezuelan crude from state-run oil company PDVSA, according to four people familiar with the matter, hoping to resume a trade suspended four years ago by U.S.

AVANA, (Reuters) – The U.N. General Assembly called for the 31st time on the United States to end its decades-long trade embargo against Cuba as the communist-run island suffers its worst economic crisis in decades, with shortages of food, fuel and medicine.

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – The increasing specialization of Latin America’s exports to China, focusing on oil and mining, shows a “worrying” trend, the United Nations Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) said in a report on Thursday.

(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge has frozen the assets of an attorney as part of a bid by a company to recover $7 million in funds paid to a contractor for a construction project that allegedly did not materialise.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Some of Latin America’s largest countries came out yesterday to condemn Israel’s attacks on a densely populated refugee camp in the Gaza Strip, widening the diplomatic rift between the region and the Middle Eastern country.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday temporarily militarized security at some of the country’s most important ports and airports, as he seeks to tame rising crime after several deadly incidents in Rio de Janeiro state.

LONDON, (Reuters) – Tropical birds, from kingfishers to wrens to warblers, are showing signs of mercury contamination as artisanal and small-scale gold mining operations reach deeper into jungles, new research finds.

GUATEMALA CITY,  (Reuters) – The United States slapped fresh visa restrictions on more than a dozen Guatemalans and their immediate families yesterday, accusing them of undermining democracy in the Central American country.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says the state will “redouble all efforts” in the fight against crime.

(Trinidad Guardian) The family of one of three men who were murdered in Arima believe he was simply in the wrong place at the wrong time yesterday evening.

(Trinidad Guardian) Gerard Forde may have been fortunate to escape gunmen, but his eldest son was not.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Up to mid-afternoon yesterday, there were no reports of loss of life or significant damage to buildings and infrastructure resulting from a magnitude 5.6 earthquake that shook Jamaica.