RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil opened a conference of foreign ministers from the G20 group of nations today by blaming the United Nations and other multinational bodies for failing to stop mounting wars and conflicts that are killing innocent people.
(Trinidad Express) Billion-dollar transnational companies are “cheating” the public revenue; going after them to ensure they pay their taxes is important, says Independent Senator Anthony Vieira.
(Trinidad Guardian) UNC leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar says there should not be any Salaries Review Commission (SRC) increases for herself, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley or President Christine Kangaloo, but the salary increases should be given to the hardworking public servants.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – A Chilean appeals court yesterday ordered the reopening of an investigation into the death of the leftist poet and Nobel laureate Pablo Neruda in 1973 soon after the military seized power in a coup.
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.
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