Regional News

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – The diplomatic spat between Brazil and Israel entered a third day yesterday, with Brazil’s foreign minister calling Israel’s response to comments made by President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva on the Gaza Strip “unacceptable” and “untruthful.”

BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Poverty levels in Argentina hit 57.4% in January, the highest in at least 20 years, according to a report by the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA) cited by local media on Sunday.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s government could restart aerial bombing campaigns against illegal armed groups, as long as intelligence makes certain minors will not be affected, Defense Minister Ivan Velasquez said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Flying with American Airlines (AA) soon and planning to check a suitcase?

LONDON,  (Reuters) – British foreign minister David Cameron vowed yesterday to help protect the Falkland Islands as long as they wanted to remain under British control despite attempts by Argentina’s new leader to reopen negotiations on their sovereignty.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Sixteen people from the same family were found dead in a remote mountain town in southern Haiti, a local official said yesterday, with local news outlets noting the deaths were reported a day after the family attended a funeral.

(Trinidad Express) It costs just Can$7 (about TT$35) to obtain an electronic travel authorisation (eTA) for citizens of Trinidad and Tobago to travel to Canada for tourism or to visit their friends and family, says Canadian High Commissioner Arif Keshani.

(Trinidad Guardian) A soldier has been shot and killed in Diego Martin.

(Trinidad Express) Cocaine valued at over half a million dollars has been found washed ashore at Cove Estate, Tobago.

PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A Haitian judge in charge the investigation into the 2021 assassination of the Caribbean nation’s last president has charged some fifty people, including his widow and a former prime minister, according to a document leaked to local media.

JERUSALEM, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva is not welcome in Israel until he takes back comments likening the war against Hamas militants in Gaza to the Nazi genocide during World War Two, the Israeli foreign minister said on Monday.

(Trinidad Express) Two men and an 18-year-old woman were shot and killed by police in Tunapuna early yesterday morning during what a senior officer described as an exchange of gunfire.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The police have released the identities of the four men who died in a collision involving two cars on the Rock main road in Trelawny early yesterday morning.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Huge crowds filled the Mexican capital’s main square on Sunday, turning out to support the nation’s electoral body ahead of the upcoming presidential vote and taking aim at current President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador’s efforts to consolidate its power.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The police shot and killed a man who reportedly fired at them after he was confronted about his presence outside the lock-up at the Hunts Bay police station in St Andrew last night.

(Jamaica Gleaner) A 15-year-old boy from St Ann has been charged with the alleged rape of a six-year-old girl at a daycare facility in the parish last month.

(Trinidad Guardian) Between 2015 and 2023, T&T had more than 876 confirmed oil spills and chemical releases, according to statistics from the Environmental Management Authority (EMA).

(Trinidad Guardian) Four trade unions have condemned the Salaries Review Commission’s (SRC) proposed salary increase for Government officials.

KINGSTOWN,  (Reuters) – The top court in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines dismissed a challenge to anti-gay laws dating to British colonial rule on Friday, leaving the Caribbean country among a handful that still prescribes harsh criminal penalties against gays and lesbians.

(Trinidad Express) Three people were shot and killed by police in Tunapuna yesterday morning while one of them was on an Instagram Live video.