PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – The number of people crossing the perilous Darien Gap linking Panama and Colombia has hit a record high of 400,000 in the year to September, official data showed, as migration to the United States intensified despite efforts to curb the flow.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Luis Roberto Barroso, a liberal who has favoured legalizing abortion and criminalizing homophobia in his 10 years on Brazil’s Supreme Court, became chief justice on Thursday as the court’s relations chilled with Congress over allegations of judicial overreach.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil Potash Corp, the Canadian firm planning to build Latin America’s largest fertilizer mine in the Amazon rainforest, says a local Indigenous people, the Mura, have agreed to the project, but federal prosecutors insist the community is still divided.
(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has confirmed several galvanised sheets on a section of Hangars 09 and 10 at its Piarco base were displaced due to high winds associated with the early afternoon thunderstorms yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) In a move that has left Tobagonians talking, President Christine Kangaloo surprisingly made a call for the autonomy Tobago has been clamouring for, saying the time had come for it to be done once and for all.
(Trinidad Express) “He was not a bad person, he never had any kind of enemies, and a lot of people looked up to him and loved him.”
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – More than 10,000 people have fled their homes in parts of Haiti’s central department, the United Nations’ migration agency said yesterday, after a series of gang attacks in recent days including in a hospital north of the capital.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police said today they were carrying out fresh raids and arrests as part of an investigation into the Jan.
(Trinidad Guardian) Even with her little body wrapped in bandages after suffering second-degree burns when she fell into a pot of boiling lentil peas, little Shazade Simon tried to console her worried relatives.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Costa Rica’s President Rodrigo Chaves said yesterday that he has ordered officials to declare a state of emergency as the number of migrants passing through the small Central American nation has risen sharply.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Commodities trader Cargill has been ordered by a Brazilian court to pay 600,000 reais ($120,185) as indemnity for buying cocoa from farms where child labor or forced work has been identified.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A U.S. pilot pleaded guilty yesterday to violating American sanctions by transporting former Venezuelan oil minister Tareck El Aissami, whom Washington accuses of drug trafficking.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – JPMorgan Chase JPM.N agreed to pay $75 million to settle claims by the U.S.
(Jamaica Gleaner) More than 50 presenters and experts from across the globe are expected to join in discussion on a range of topics focusing on whether Artificial Intelligence (AI) is an existential threat or tool for scaling over human limitations.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Nicolas Petro, the son of Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro, will face trial for alleged crimes of illicit enrichment and money laundering while serving as a politician in the province of Atlantico, the attorney general’s office said on Monday.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Chevron Corp CVX.Nplans to add 65,000 barrels per day (bpd) of Venezuelan oil output by the end of 2024 through its first major drilling campaign in the nation since Washington allowed it to restore production clipped by U.S.
(Trinidad Express) Almost 300 guests, including a number of Trinidadians, had to be evacuated from a hotel in Guyana on Saturday night after fire tore through one of the floors of the six-storey building which was booked to capacity with fans who came for the Republic Bank Caribbean Premier League (CPL) cricket final last night.
(Trinidad Guardian) A Venezuelan migrant was one of two men killed in a drive-by shooting in St Helena yesterday afternoon.
(Jamaica Gleaner) With some 565 suspected, presumed and confirmed cases as of Friday, the Ministry of Health and Wellness yesterday declared an outbreak of dengue in Jamaica.
(Trinidad Guardian) With T&T’s credit card sales using foreign exchange projected to reach US$2 billion this year, Minister of Finance Colm Imbert requested the Central Bank inject US$50 million into the banking system on a one-off basis last Wednesday.
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