CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado is facing increasing pressure from her allies to choose a substitute to potentially run in her place in the July presidential election, five sources with knowledge of the matter said.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Attorneys for Vybz Kartel and his fellow murder accused are expected to seek bail while the Court of Appeal decides if they should face a retrial.
(Trinidad Guardian) Hannah Mathura was shot in the head and then buried in a shallow grave at the family’s home in Valsayn.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A powerful gang leader in Haiti has issued a threatening message aimed at political leaders who would take part in a still unformed transition council for the country, which has been rocked by escalating violence in recent weeks.
(Trinidad Express) Keith Martin, the man known to Trinidad and Tobago as “Jumbo, the nuts man” has died.
(Trinidad Guardian) Director of the Tobago Emergency Management Agency (TEMA) Allan Stewart said while clean-up continues, Tobago can declare the situation under control.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s capital was calm yesterday, two days after the prime minister said he would step down, but the United States and the United Nations began to withdraw staff in a sign they fear peace might not hold.
(Trinidad Express) Police have arrested the male suspect in connection with the alleged murder of 18 year old Hannah Mathura.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has asked the public to be “patient” as an investigation into the Strategic Services Agency takes place.
Former Suriname president Desi Bouterse and Iwan Dijksteel, who were sentenced to twenty years in prison, for their involvement in the December murders of 1982, are now officially wanted by the international police organization Interpol.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Uncertainty hung over Haiti’s political future yesterday after its prime minister said he would step down, a move welcomed by many Haitians exhausted by months of escalating gang violence, but with questions over security still to be settled.
PUNTO FIJO/CARACAS/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Iran and Venezuela are trying to patch together an oil alliance that began to fray last year, according to six people familiar with the matter, after the South American country fell behind on oil swaps that had boosted crude exports and helped stem domestic fuel shortages.
(Trinidad Express) Skeletal remains, suspected to be that of an 18-year-old woman, were found yesterday in Valsayn.
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – Kenya has said its police officers will soon be in Haiti to confront rampaging gangs controlling the capital, but worsening insecurity and uncertainty about financing are casting doubt on the mission’s prospects.
SAN JOSE DEL GUAVIARE, Colombia (Reuters) – It will be difficult for the Estado Mayor Central (EMC) armed group to sign a peace deal with the Colombian government before President Gustavo Petro finishes his term in 2026, despite trust between the two sides, a major leader of the EMC told Reuters on the sidelines of peace talks.
PORT-AU-PRINCE/KINGSTON, Jamaica, (Reuters) – Haiti’s unelected prime minister, Ariel Henry, will step down once a transition council and temporary replacement have been appointed, he said yesterday, after leading the Caribbean country since the 2021 assassination of its last president.
(Trinidad Express) Gunmen in uniforms resembling police tactical wear shot and killed four gardeners in a camp in Mayaro in the early hours of yesterday.
(Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Jamaica today to attend a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) meeting on Haiti where a collapse in security and a humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean nation has unfolded, the State Department said.
(Trinidad Guardian) A Siparia community is in mourning after well-known attorney Everald Davidson died after a car knocked him down as he exercised in his neighbourhood on Saturday evening.
(Trinidad Express) Death was instantaneous for a 46-year-old La Romaine mechanic when he was shot while sitting in his Range Rover yesterday afternoon.
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