BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro ordered the country’s military to capture the top leader of the Estado Mayor Central, aggravating a breakdown in relations between the illegal armed group and the government as they hold peace talks.
(Trinidad Express) In what is one of the largest awards of damages made by the courts in a case for false imprisonment, the High Court has directed that the State pay a 16-year-old Venezuelan boy $2.4 million, exclusive of interest, after he was unlawfully detained for 456 days at the Heliport, Chaguaramas.
(Trinidad Express) In what is one of the largest awards of damages made by the courts in a case for false imprisonment, the High Court has directed that the State pay a 16-year-old Venezuelan boy $2.4 million, exclusive of interest, after he was unlawfully detained for 456 days at the Heliport, Chaguaramas.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela opposition leader Maria Corina Machado yesterday named Corina Yoris as her successor to take on President Nicolas Maduro in the country’s presidential election in July, following the arrest of two of Machado’s close aides.
LIMA, (Reuters) – The Inter-American Court of Human Rights on Friday ordered Peru to pay damages to residents of an Andean town for violations of their right to a healthy environment from years of air, water and soil pollution from a nearby mine.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Almost half of Haiti’s people are struggling to feed themselves as gang violence spreads across the country, with several areas close to famine, international organisations said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) A local rapper who went by the sobriquet “V-Max,” was shot and killed in Mt Lambert on Thursday night.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Attacks flared in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince yesterday as political groups appeared to get nearer to finalizing a transition council set to take over from an absent government, including a shootout which left another gang leader dead.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday sanctioned Nicaragua’s attorney general for her role in the government’s “unjust persecution of political prisoners and civil society,” the U.S.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Brazil is weighing options to import natural gas from Argentina’s massive Vaca Muerta formation, and especially the possible reversal of a line currently used for transporting Bolivian gas, as it looks to ease its gas deficit, Mines and Energy Minister Alexandre Silveira told Reuters yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) One of the promoters of Carnival mas band Have Ah Time was shot and killed in Diego Martin on Tuesday night.
(Reuters) – Suspected gang members were killed during an attack on the Petion-Ville neighborhood on the southern outskirts of Haiti’s capital, as a clash with police and locals pointed to a resurgence of vigilante justice while the state remains absent.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela attorney general Tarek Saab said yesterday that two people close to opposition candidate Maria Corina Machado had been arrested, prompting Machado to call the charges leveled at her team “completely false.”
(Trinidad Express) There is growing alarm over the disappearance of contracting firm owner Shivam Parsuram.
(Reuters) – Residents in the upscale neighbourhood of Petion-Ville on the outskirts of Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince barricaded themselves in their homes today, local media reported, citing heavy gunfire and bodies found on the street.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Weighing in on the raging debate surrounding the recent Privy Council quashing of Adidja ‘Vybz Kartel’ Palmer’s murder conviction, former Prime Minister Patterson and his colleague King’s Counsel Hugh Small said the decision taken to proceed with the trial after the jury-tampering incident “was not merely a risk but a fatal error”.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Acting House Leader and the minister responsible for gender, Olivia Grange, says Opposition Leader Mark Golding has brought the House of Representatives into disrepute by questioning the election of Juliet Holness as House Speaker.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The United States is seeing some “negative signals” regarding Venezuela’s commitment to free elections that could mean sanctions on its oil industry may not be extended, a U.S.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police formally accused former President Jair Bolsonaro of fraud on his vaccination records, opening the door to criminal charges, according to a police report seen by Reuters yesterday.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivian police have carried out the second-largest drug bust in the country’s history, seizing more than 7.2 tons of cocaine destined for Belgium with a street value of nearly half a billion U.S.
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