Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Despite a reward offer of $20,000, police have received no credible leads into the whereabouts of missing Penal businesswoman Christina Adsett.

(Trinidad Guardian) Tragedy struck in San Fernando yesterday, after a worker from the Water and Sewerage Authority died after being buried alive inside a trench about a mile from his home.

(Trinidad Express) Renowned Trinidad author and columnist, BC Pires has died.

(Trinidad Express) A judge in Trinidad and Tobago can only be removed from office in accordance with the special procedure set out in Section 137 of the Constitution.

(Trinidad Express) Renowned Trinidad author and columnist, BC Pires has died.

(Trinidad Guardian) NiQuan’s founder and chief visionary officer Ainsley Gill has written to bankers, noteholders and financiers saying that if the Gas to Liquids (GTL) plant does not get urgent funding it will be forced “to cease operations and send home all employees”.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley was set to travel so he was dressed casually before he was roped into an international press conference.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has vetoed the core parts of a bill backed by the country’s powerful farm lobby that would have limited claims to ancestral lands where Indigenous people have lived by 1988.

PANAMA CITY,  (Reuters) – Panama’s congress yesterday approved a modified version of the government’s contract with a local subsidiary of Canadian miner First Quantum, after extended negotiations over the open-pit copper mine the firm operates and amid anti-mining protests.

(Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden will host leaders from South American nations at the White House for a summit on Nov.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Argentina may be about to leap into the political unknown.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitian police arrested former justice official Joseph Felix Badio in the assassination of President Jovenel Moise, a police spokesman told Reuters yesterday, Badio is accused by investigators of ordering the hitmen who carried out the attack in July 2021.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Some grain shipments on rivers in Northern Brazil have been halted due to a drought that has sent Amazon river tributaries to the lowest level in over a century, according to a note sent to clients yesterday by shipping services provider Serveporto.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s attorney general, a steadfast opponent of President-elect Bernardo Arevalo, has crafted a complex strategy to weaken his mandate or prevent him from taking office, according to five sources with knowledge of the prosecutor’s thinking.

VALENCIA/MARACAY, Venezuela,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado, the front-runner in a primary set for Sunday, has traveled the crisis-hit country in her signature jeans, white t-shirt and sneakers with her slogan “until the end”, despite a ban on her holding office.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Five people jailed in Venezuela, including two opposition leaders, were released yesterday, the opposition’s chief negotiator with President Nicolas Maduro’s government said.

(Reuters) – Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Keith Rowley urged Canada yesterday to help Caribbean countries reinforce their security by helping with coastal patrols as the region deals with worsening gun violence.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Biden administration yesterday broadly eased sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector in response to a 2024 election deal reached between the Venezuelan government and the country’s opposition.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – A Brazil congressional probe into the Jan. 8 insurrection by thousands of Jair Bolsonaro’s supporters yesterday recommended that the far-right former president and some of his closest allies be charged with an attempted coup d’état and other crimes.

(Reuters) – Joran van der Sloot, the prime suspect in the 2005 death of Alabama teenager Natalee Holloway, admitted to killing her on a beach on the Caribbean island of Aruba, a confession he made in pleading guilty yesterday to charges of extorting the victim’s mother.