LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s environment ministry and Repsol SA yesterday increased the estimated size of a Pacific Ocean oil spill at a company refinery to over 10,000 barrels – significantly higher than an initial estimate of 6,000 barrels.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro did not show up to testify yesterday, after a Supreme Court Justice subpoenaed him and ordered federal police to question him in an investigation about leaked documents.
(Barbados Nation) More than 60 Barbadian students are now awaiting the final word on their 2020 CAPE and Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) results.
(Trinidad Guardian) Almost 150 employees of Scotiabank are set to be out of a job by the end of May.
(Trinidad Guardian) Investigators believe the broad daylight murders of two men who were gunned down while in the car park of South Park Mall, in San Fernando on Thursday, was a well-planned execution.
(Trinidad Express) Seventy nationals have lost their jobs following the decision of the Shanghai Construction Group to throw in the trowel on the construction of the Central Block at the Port of Spain General Hospital (POSGH) project.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Supreme Court justice yesterday subpoenaed Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro and ordered police to question him in an investigation into leaked documents in which he has resisted testifying.
(Trinidad Guardian) After spending almost 15 years on remand and facing two trials, two friends from Point Fortin have been freed of murdering a fellow resident in 2007.
(Trinidad Guardian) The search for missing local model, actress and brand promotions representative Vanna Girod, fondly called Vanna Vee, ended tragically on Wednesday after her body was found near a beach in Arnos Vale in Tobago.
(Trinidad Guardian) All 65 people who were held on a party boat in Carenage earlier this month have now been charged with breaching the Public Health Regulations.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Cuban peso was trading at nearly 100 to the dollar on the informal market today, according to a trader and online trackers, a depreciation of more than 30% in less than a month and four times the fixed official rate.
(Trinidad Express) Make certain soca songs and calypsoes age-defined. This call came from Independent Senator Varma Deyalsingh as he contributed to the National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) Bill, 2022, in the Senate on Tuesday.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba rejected yesterday accusations by rights groups and diplomats that its court system had unfairly jailed protesters following widespread unrest on the island in July, defending recent trials as just and in line with Cuban law.
(Jamaica Observer) In a move to further extend its tentacles in the region, brokerage firm NCB Capital Markets Limited (NCBCM) said it was now finalising plans to roll-out its long-awaited presence in Guyana.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s President Guillermo Lasso said yesterday he will seek to disconnect the handover of crude from outstanding debt to China during a visit to the Asian country next month, part of his plan to renegotiate some $4.1 billion in debt.
(Trinidad Guardian) Works Minister Rohan Sinanan says he is awaiting a report following the partial collapse of the $280 million Mosquito Creek segment of the Solomon Hochoy Highway Extension project.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti was struck by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake and a series of smaller tremors yesterday that killed two people and led panicked residents of the Caribbean nation’s southern peninsula to flood into the streets.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s security forces yesterday killed a leading member of the so-called FARC dissidents in the south west of the Andean country, during an operation in Cauca province, President Ivan Duque said.
(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley yesterday announced her new Cabinet that featured shifts and new faces.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti was struck by a 5.3 magnitude earthquake and a series of smaller tremors today that killed one person and led panicked residents of the Caribbean nation’s southern peninsula to flood into the streets.
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