Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) Senseless and reckless.    This is how Kevon Lewis described the murder of his uncle, Siparia labourer Leroy Sifontis, who was held up on his way to work yesterday morning.

(Trinidad Express) A High Court judge yester­day axed a long-­standing colo­nial policy that prison officers must be “clean-sha­ven” in Trinidad and Tobago.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) –  Colombia’s Supreme Court has ordered the country’s interior minister to testify in a corruption probe and the Constitutional Court struck down the creation of the equality ministry in a double blow for the government of President Gustavo Petro.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – Civilian contractors have arrived in Haiti to build living quarters for a Kenyan-led international security force meant to counter gang violence in the Caribbean nation, the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Tobago’s eight murder victim is another woman. Nikesha Sandy was gunned down on the roadway in Plymouth shortly before 7a.m.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) –  Venezuela is open to paying its debt to China – which according to independent data amounts to some $10 billion – lawmaker Nicolas Maduro Guerra, son of President Nicolas Maduro, told Reuters in an interview yesterday.

(Trinidad Express) For the first time in this country’s history an auditor general has filed a lawsuit against an attorney general.

PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil,  (Reuters) – Authorities interrupted rescue efforts in flood-ravaged southern Brazil yesterday amid more rain and the risk of lightning and stiff winds that threaten to exacerbate a catastrophe that has already killed at least 100 people and left over 163,000 seeking shelter.

SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s congress, controlled by President Daniel Ortega, yesterday repealed a law which had given a little-known Chinese investor a concession of up to 100 years to build and operate a canal between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.

PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s president-elect, Jose Raul Mulino, said yesterday he will urge lawmakers to approve a law enabling the Panama Canal to build large water reservoirs in the face of an unprecedented drought that has hit the capacity of the vital waterway.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T had 11.49 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas under contract to be developed at the end of 2022, Energy Minister Stuart Young told a news conference on Tuesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Jamaica has recorded an impressive 1.7 million visitors within the first five months of the year.

(Trinidad Express) A retired High Court judge—David Harris—will chair the team to investigate the imbroglio involving the Auditor General and the Ministry/Minister of Finance.

MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Widespread recent power outages in Mexico were caused by unseasonably hot weather, the country’s president said yesterday, assuring consumers that the national grid has sufficient generating capacity going forward.

(Trinidad Guardian) Up to late yesterday evening, police were still trying to determine a motive for the murders of a man and his common-law wife at their mini-mart on Penal Rock Road, Penal, on Monday night. 

LIMA, (Reuters) – The Chinese state-owned company at the centre of a dispute over operations of a megaport it is building on Peru’s Pacific coast insisted yesterday on terms agreed with the government, as some local officials have sought to backtrack on the deal.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. issued visa restrictions against executives of several Colombia maritime companies allegedly linked to migrant transportation to the Colombia-Panama border, a senior U.S.

(Trinidad Express) Renowned Caribbean health researcher and scholar Professor Emeritus David Picou has died at the age of 97.

ELDORADO DO SUL, Brazil, (Reuters) – Rescuers rushed to evacuate people stranded by devastating floods across the southern Brazilian state of Rio Grande do Sul yesterday, with at least 90 dead, thousands left homeless, and desperate survivors seeking food and basic supplies.

(Trinidad Guardian) The estimated costs of the clean-up operation so far for the Tobago oil spill at the central Government level is around US$12 million but by the end of the exercise it could increase to as much as US$30 million, says Energy Minister Stuart Young.