(Trinidad Guardian) Officers of the US-based Alcohol Tobacco and Firearms (ATF) Bureau are assisting local police in tracing the origin of several high-powered rifles, machine guns and ammunition that were seized in a forested part of Santa Cruz on Wednesday afternoon.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has proposed his team for anti-crime talks with the Opposition, to be chaired by Attorney General Reginald Armour, SC.
(Trinidad Guardian) Months of surveillance and intelligence gathering led to the seizure of a quantity of high-powered rifles and hundreds of rounds of ammunition, including armour-piercing rounds, and gunpowder yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) A late-night visit to a fast food strip ended with a popular music producer being murdered the wounding of two other men, including a Trinibad artiste, on Tuesday.
MANAUS, (Reuters) – A barge carrying three trucks and 2,000 empty cooking gas cylinders lies stranded on the vast sand banks of a diminished Rio Negro river after running aground last month, highlighting the plight of river transport in the Amazon region hit by severe drought.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – A Honduran special anti-corruption unit indicted two former conservative presidents yesterday on charges of fraud for the diversion of over $12 million of public funds into political campaigns, the state prosecutors office said.
(The opinions expressed here are those of the author, a columnist for Reuters) By Gavin Maguire LITTLETON, Colorado, (Reuters) – Brazil generated nearly 93% of its electricity from clean sources during the first nine months of 2023, up more than 2 percentage points from the same period in 2022 and the largest clean-power share among major economies.
ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Inmates at Paraguay’s largest prison rioted on Tuesday, taking 11 guards hostage and setting fire to facilities in the crowded Tacumbu penitentiary on the outskirts of the capital.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – In its race to be the first country to sell carbon credits under a new Paris Agreement scheme, Suriname has set a price of $30 per credit in a bid to raise $144 million, the country’s environment minister told Reuters yesterday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Former Haitian Senator Joseph Joel John pleaded guilty yesterday to criminal charges in a U.S.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalan prosecutors are seeking to block the landslide winner of the country’s presidential election from taking office, the head of the Organization of American States (OAS) said yesterday, denouncing the push as a “shameful example for the hemisphere.”
MARRAKECH, Morocco, (Reuters) – Barbados is hoping to execute a “debt-for-climate” swap early next year to secure savings of around $300 million over a 15 year period to fund clean water supplies, the island state’s finance minister told Reuters yesterday.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Hurricane Lidia plowed into Mexico’s Pacific coast at the beach town of Las Penitas as a powerful Category 4 storm last evening, as local tourist resorts hunkered down to shelter from lashing rains, potentially lethal winds and flooding.
(Trinidad Express) The Government is on the cusp of settling a memorandum of understanding (MoU) mechanism for Maritime Security Cooperation between Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago to combat human and narcotics trafficking, migrant smuggling and other forms of transnational organised crime.
(Reuters) – The Dominican Republic announced new measures to strengthen control at its border with Haiti, including an indefinite extension of the border shutdown it enacted last month plus boosting military forces as well as a new exports ban.
CARACAS/DOHA/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Venezuela and the U.S. have progressed in talks that could provide sanctions relief to Caracas by allowing at least one additional foreign oil firm to take Venezuelan crude oil for debt repayment if President Nicolas Maduro resumes negotiations with the opposition in Mexico, five sources said.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico has not provided its ally Cuba with any energy donations, a senior official said yesterday, even as Mexican oil exports to the communist-run Caribbean island have risen dramatically this year.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s president-elect Bernardo Arevalo said yesterday the government is using violence to counter protests and create tension which could be used as an excuse for declaring a state of “siege,” even as the government announced tighter measures.
(Reuters) – Venezuela and Trinidad and Tobago, along with firms participating in a joint offshore project, have begun price negotiations for exporting Venezuelan natural gas to the Caribbean island, following a U.S.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Costa Rica and Honduras slapped each other with visa requirements for travelers from the other’s country yesterday, with Costa Rica first implementing the measure citing security reasons.
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