PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The Secretary-General of Haiti’s High Transition Council (HCT), Anthony Virginie Saint-Pierre, has been kidnapped according to the head of the committee which has been tasked with creating a roadmap for elections which have been penciled in for next year.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago can now make cash payments to Vene¬zuela for the natural gas extracted from the Dragon field, Energy Minister Stuart Young has announced.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A federal appeals court has overturned an injunction suspending the license for Canadian firm Brazil Potash Corp to build Latin America’s largest fertilizer mine in the Amazon rainforest.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago can now make cash payments to Venezuela for the natural gas extracted from the Dragon field, Energy Minister Stuart Young has announced.
(Trinidad Guardian) Members of the T&T Police Service yesterday made another haul of arms and ammunition in Santa Cruz.
CARACAS/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government and its political opposition yesterday agreed to electoral guarantees for 2024 presidential elections, paving the way for possible U.S.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – The interior minister in Guatemala’s outgoing administration resigned late on Monday following the first death of a protester during demonstrations calling for an orderly transition to a government led by President-elect Bernardo Arevalo.
CARACAS/WASHINGTON/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government and opposition will resume long-suspended talks today that President Nicolas Maduro said would benefit the upcoming 2024 election, a move that could lead to Washington easing sanctions, multiple sources said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The man found dead on Chancellor Hill with stab wounds to his chest has been identified.
CARACAS/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government and opposition will return to political negotiations, the two sides said today, while sources said the United States has reached a preliminary deal to ease sanctions if President Nicolas Maduro follows through on commitments related to a 2024 election.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia expects a visit by Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as the two oil producers deepen their cooperation and Russian companies seek to invest more in the South American country, President Vladimir Putin’s oil point man said today.
QUITO/GUAYAQUIL, (Reuters) – Business heir Daniel Noboa yesterday won Ecuador’s presidential election, vowing to rebuild the South American country, which is struggling with a weak economy and rising crime and violence.
(Trinidad Guardian) Kerissa Dowrich was planning to wear a white dress her mother Karen Thompson got for her graduation at the University of the West Indies, St Augustine Campus, next week.
(Trinidad Guardian) Four days after an attempt on the life of a Deputy Commissioner of Prisons Sherwyn Bruce and a shooting and wounding of prison officer Steve Phipps, another prison officer was shot at on Saturday night.
(Trinidad Guardian) Crime in the country’s capital city has been on the increase.
CAMPECHE, Mexico, (Reuters) – Thousands of people across the Americas gazed at the heavens yesterday to witness a rare phenomenon known as an annular solar eclipse, when the moon passes in front of the sun, momentarily producing the appearance of a “ring of fire” in the sky.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Leoda Bradshaw, the American companion of opposition lawmaker Phillip Paulwell, reportedly travelled to Jamaica with the sole purpose of murdering Paulwell’s infant daughter and her mother.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s leftist government will spend $4.25 billion to buy some 1.5 million hectares (3.7 million acres) of land for poor farmers or displaced people, as part of a bid to increase agricultural output and boost peace efforts, an official said.
(Trinidad Guardian) It is just after noon on Tuesday, and Claire Gomez-Miller has just stepped down as the executive chair of Clico, the storied insurance company she led for six years and three months.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday criticised remarks made by Colombian President Gustavo Petro in which he compared Israeli government comments to those made by Nazis, and called on him to condemn Hamas.
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