Regional News

(Trinidad Express) A mother has been arrested after being identified from a video posted on social media showing her verbally and physically abuse two young children.

RIO DE JANEIRO,  (Reuters) – Indigenous people from nine villages in Brazil’s Yanomami territory were found to be contaminated by mercury, with those living closer to illegal gold mining sites presenting higher levels of contamination, a study released yesterday found.

(Reuters) – Diplomats at a regional Americas body yesterday urged Haitian politicians to move forward with a delayed plan to replace Prime Minister Ariel Henry with a transitional council, a move which could trigger the long-awaited deployment of an international security force.

(Reuters) – The son of a Dominican lawmaker was fatally shot at a gas station in Houston, Texas, according to police, who said yesterday they were searching for four men wanted for what they called a targeted killing.

HOUSTON,  (Reuters) – Oil major Shell SHEL.L is seeking a long-term license from the U.S.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – More than 53,000 people fled Haiti’s capital in just three weeks of March as conflict between powerful armed gangs wreaked havoc for civilians, with the state largely absent and a path out of the chaos yet to be established by politicians.

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Guadeloupe-born author Maryse Conde, who wrote about colonialism, slavery and the French-Caribbean diaspora, died in southern France at the age of 90.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – In just three years, Brazil’s hugely popular Pix payment system has become the country’s favorite way to pay, replacing cash and wire transfers in many cases and now threatening the dominance of credit cards in the booming e-commerce sector.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Panic set in around downtown Port-au-Prince yesterday as wild shooting filled the streets of Haiti’s capital, with heavy gunfire near the national palace.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru’s president replaced six ministers yesterday after they abruptly resigned, amid a fresh political scandal involving luxury watches that targets her, adding more volatility to the South American nation’s increasingly rocky politics.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on Sunday outlined several economic measures he said he was directly involved in to save the day for Trinidad and Tobago.

SAO PAULO/MARACAY, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuela is battling a record number of wildfires, according to data released today, as a climate change-driven drought plagues the Amazon rainforest region.

HOUSTON/BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters)  – Energy companies from Argentina and Brazil have begun talks on reversing the southerly flow of a Bolivian natural gas pipeline network that connects the three countries as a regional gas deficit could force Brazil to pay up for alternative supplies of the fuel.A

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – The Kremlin today dismissed a report that Russian military intelligence may be behind the mysterious “Havana syndrome” ailment that has afflicted U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) A combination of alcohol, along with the noise emanating from an apartment above at Building 16, Oropune Gardens, Piarco, are believed to be what led a suspect to kill a father and son on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Kevin Francois’s last act as he came face to face with armed gunmen on Thursday night, was to shield his three-year-old son from the hail of bullets that cut him and his brother down.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A boat carrying Chinese migrants capsized off the coast of the Mexican southern state of Oaxaca, killing eight migrants, and Mexican authorities said over the weekend that they were investigating the incident.

(Trinidad Guardian) Officers of the North Central Division Major Crimes Unit, led by Sgt Thomas, later arrested the suspect, who had been locked in an apartment.

(Trinidad Guardian) Quick work by the newly formed response unit in the North Central Division led to the arrest of a suspect who killed a father and son and injured two others during a stabbing incident in Oropune Gardens, Piarco, yesterday.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean authorities yesterday said they had captured a leader of a powerful gang, Los Lobos, which has been accused of involvement in the assassination of the country’s anti-corruption presidential candidate last August.