BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A court’s ruling that residents of a polluted Peruvian mining town have the right to a healthy environment could be a milestone for similar cases in Latin America, though the blighted community still faces hurdles in its fight for justice.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – A renowned Venezuelan activist was arrested for his alleged involvement in a reported assassination attempt against President Nicolas Maduro last month, the country’s Attorney General Tarek Saab said late yesterday.
(Reuters) – Argentina has bought 24 F-16 jets for its air force from Denmark, President Javier Milei and Defense Minister Luis Petri said in a video posted on X on Tuesday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Digicel Group has announced Marcelo Cataldo as its new group chief executive officer, effective May,1.
WASHINGTON/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. will not renew a temporary license that widely eased sanctions on Venezuela’s oil and gas sector unless progress is made by President Nicolas Maduro on commitments for free and fair elections this year, a State Department spokesperson said on yesterday, three days before the license is to expire.
(Reuters) – The Panama Canal will increase booking slots for its Panamax locks from May 16 due to estimated water levels of the artificial lake which it draws from, the canal authority said yesterday, pointing to an easing of a drought that had caused cuts in daily crossings.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba yesterday said it would insist the U.S.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – The four largest indigenous communities in Chile’s Atacama salt flat suspended dialogue with state-run copper giant Codelco and lithium miner SQM over expanding lithium mining in the flat, the groups said in a statement yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Half of the world’s 75 poorest countries are experiencing a widening income gap with the wealthiest economies for the first time this century in a historical reversal of development, the World Bank said in a report on Monday.The
(Trinidad Express) Three houses, six vehicles and a pet dog were lost in a fire in Freeport that police and fire officers were told was initiated by a resident burning trash yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The “overwhelming majority” of allegations contained in the 13-page document submitted by its former executive vice president of business integrity and general counsel, Angelique Parisot-Potter, “have not been made out.”
(Trinidad Guardian) Seven families whose babies died of neonatal sepsis over four days at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU) of the Port-of-Spain General Hospital (P0SGH) have joined together to file a class action lawsuit for medical negligence against the hospital.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – The government of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is following the “worrying events” in the Middle East, it said on Saturday, but it did not condemn Iran’s retaliatory strikeon Israel earlier in the day.
(Jamaica Gleaner) High Court Justice Bertram Morrison did not mince words on Friday as he ordered Gregory Roberts, the man convicted of the murder of schoolgirl Shineka Gray, to serve a minimum of 50 years for the crime.
(Trinidad Express) The brother-in-law of Crystal Harricharan, the mom who pleaded for protection until her murder last Tuesday, has been shot dead at her wake.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police yesterday charged four-year-old Amarah Lallite’s stepfather, Isan Contant, with her murder.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. officials met representatives of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro in Mexico this week to express concerns about Venezuela’s electoral process, a White House official said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) CARIRI and PAHO have been engaged, while the Health Ministry has launched a separate investigation into the deaths of seven babies at the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit of the Port of Spain General Hospital between April 4th and 7th, according to Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – The February kidnap and murder of a Venezuelan opposition figure in Chile was ordered from Venezuela and likely political, according to Chile’s prosecutor’s office, and the government will seek to extradite two suspects who fled to Venezuela.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s government today issued a decree formalizing the creation of a nine-member transitional presidential council, a long-delayed move that is intended as the first step in bringing security to the crisis-wracked country.
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