Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) Dr Dodridge Miller has been appointed Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI).

(Trinidad Guardian) Government and Auditor General Jaiwantie Ramdass appear to be at loggerheads over an error detected in T&T’s 2023 revenue data.

(Reuters) – Three police officers were killed yesterday in southern Chile during what President Gabriel Boric called a cowardly attack that led him to declare three days of national mourning.

(Reuters) – Haiti’s transition council yesterday said it will vote for the country’s next president on Tuesday as part of efforts to bring the Caribbean country under control amid rampant gang violence.

(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of businessman Earle Samsoondeen huddled in fear inside their home as some 20 gunshots rang out, unaware that he was under attack at their front gate.

(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago will have its first ever country pavilion at the Offshore Technology Conference set to be held in Houston next month.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Tobago House of Assembly is offering a $10,000 reward to registered fishermen who successfully capture the shark involved in today’s shark attack leaving a British national seriously injured. 

HUMAITA, Brazil,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – In November, Pedro and two of his sons rushed to the river and sank their mining boat under the brown water to hide it from officials patrolling the Amazon area as Brazil’s government cracks down on wildcat gold miners.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Gang violence within the community of Grange Hill, Westmoreland, has left a grade 10 schoolboy, 16-year-old Carson Bennett, dead and his female schoolmate of Grange Hill High School hospitalised.

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – At least 10 people died and 11 were injured in the early hours this morning in a major fire at a guesthouse in Brazil’s southern city of Porto Alegre, said the Rio Grande do Sul state fire department, which is still searching for the missing.

(Trinidad Express) The Ministry of Works and Transport is urging the owners of the vessel responsible for spilling more than 50,000 barrels of hydrocarbons along Tobago’s coastline to remove the wrecked craft within one month or else it will be disposed of in accordance with the law.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s transition council took power in a ceremony yesterday, formalizing the resignation of former Prime Minster Ariel Henry as the Caribbean country seeks to establish security after years of gang violence wreaking chaos and misery.

 (Reuters) – Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry has resigned, his office said today, as a transitional council took power with the aim of returning stability to a country where gang violence has caused chaos and misery.

BRASILIA/MONTEVIDEO,  (Reuters) – A diplomatic crisis in Ecuador and uncertainty over Venezuela’s political future have divided South American nations and killed enthusiasm for a summit that Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is trying to convene, diplomats in the region say.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has revealed the three-person team from the Pan American Health Organisation which has begun its independent investigation into the outbreak at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Port-of-Spain General Hospital.

(Trinidad Guardian) Antigua-based airline, LIAT 2020 Ltd, is one step closer to taking to the regional skies after it received its first two jet aircraft.

(Reuters) – Barbados will halt the acquisition of a former slavery plantation belonging to a British Conservative MP after locals said he should transfer land ownership to the state as a “reparations gesture” for historical wrongs.

(Trinidad Guardian) NiQuan yesterday terminated its 75 employees and will now mothball its Pointe-a-Pierre plant, which had been in “sleep” mode.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Argentines took to the streets of Buenos Aires yesterday in an anti-government march against budget cuts to public universities, the biggest protest yet against President Javier Milei’s painful austerity measures.

President of the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), Dr Hyginus ‘Gene’ Leon, has resigned with “immediate effect” from the regional financial institution.