(Trinidad Guardian) Two Guanapo men were re-manded into custody when they appeared before an Arima magistrate to face charges of murder, shooting and the possession of guns on Monday morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) Ag Deputy Commissioner of Police, Intelligence and Investigation Curt Simon yesterday praised God and the investigators whose work led to two men being arrested and charged for the murders of four members of the Peterkin family at their home in Heights of Guanapo, Arima.
TIBU, Colombia (Reuters) – Colombia’s government and the country’s largest group of dissident former FARC rebels on Sunday suspended offensive actions and celebrated the start of a peace process meant to end the group’s role in almost six decades of internal conflict, the rebel group announced.
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – The Organization of American States (OAS) on Saturday named the representatives that will lead its mission to mediate between Guatemalan officials and street protesters seeking an orderly transfer to power to President-elect Bernardo Arevalo, according to a statement published on social media site X.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – The head of the Organization of American States (OAS) said late yesterday he had accepted an invitation to mediate between Guatemalan officials and street protesters seeking an orderly transfer to power to President-elect Bernardo Arevalo.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell 56.8% in September compared to a year earlier, government data showed yesterday, while the region is struggling with a historic drought.
(Reuters) – Six men suspected of involvement in the murder in August of Ecuador’s anti-corruption presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio were killed in prison yesterday, the prisons agency said, barely a week before a crucial run-off election.
(Trinidad Express) A supermarket security guard was shot and killed last night.
(Reuters) – The United States is restarting deportations of Venezuelans who cross the U.S.-Mexico
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – European Union and Mercosur negotiators met in Brazil on Tuesday and Wednesday to try to reconcile their different positions and complete a trade deal that has been in the works for two decades, three diplomatic sources told Reuters.
(Reuters) – The Domini-can Republic is ready to restart a decommissioned canal off a river shared with neighbouring Haiti, it said yesterday, weeks after shutting down the border to stop another canal being built on the Haitian side that it asserts violated a treaty.
Canada’s Prime Minister, Justin Trudeau, today announced that he will welcome CARICOM Heads to Ottawa for the first Canada-CARICOM Summit on Canadian soil later this month.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The brother of a Brazilian congresswoman and two companions were killed in a shooting in Rio de Janeiro late yesterday, and federal police are looking into possible political motivations.
(Trinidad Guardian) A cross-section of the business community, including the Trinidad and Tobago Manufacturers’ Association (TTMA), Trinidad and Tobago Association of Retired Persons (TTARP) and Ernst and Young, say they agree with Government’s proposal to increase the retirement age, but there are also recommendations for the State to turn its attention to errant business owners who fail to pay national insurance for staff.
(Trinidad Express) Businessman Mohan Persad of supermarket chain Persad’s ‘D’ Food King and his wife were beaten and robbed during a home invasion early yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) Investigators believe revenge was the motive for the murders of Keith “Pam Pam” Roberts and Allan Azard Ali who were gunned down in Point Fortin on Monday night in an attack that left their friend, Anthony Junior “Mario” Bermudez, critically wounded.
(Reuters) – More than 60 Jamaican primary school kids were hospitalized after eating potent rainbow-coloured cannabis candy, the Caribbean country’s education minister said on social media platform X, causing them to vomit and hallucinate.
EL TAMBO, Colombia, (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro yesterday launched a new national drug policy that will look to reduce the size of coca crops, cut potential cocaine output and prevent deforestation linked to drug trafficking, while helping transition small farmers to the legal economy.
(Reuters) – Belize is developing a pilot project to convert the masses of foul-smelling sargassum seaweed swamping its pristine beaches into biofuel, its prime minister said in a statement published by regional Caribbean bloc CARICOM yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit yesterday said that the Dominica Electricity Services Company (DOMLEC) is to rent three megawatt generating system from a US-based firm that when commissioned on November 15, will end the load shedding situation on the island.
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