GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei said yesterday he would not attend next month’s Summit of the Americas, a day after the United States criticized the Central American country for appointing its attorney general to serve another term.
HAVANA/MIAMI, (Reuters) – Cubans in Havana yesterday celebrated the Biden administration’s decision to ease Trump-era restrictions on remittances and travel to the island, a crack in the door that comes as its government wrestles with economic crisis and a mass exodus of its citizens to the United States.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s elections chief yesterday warned that the South American country could face a similar assault as the 2021 U.S.
CARICOM members are to vote for the Commonwealth Secretary General candidate of their choice at the upcoming Heads of Government of Government meeting in Rwanda.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalan President Alejandro Giammattei re-appointed the country’s attorney general to a new term on Monday, just months after the prosecutor was accused by the U.S.
BRASILIA, May 16 (Reuters) – Brazilian Senate leaders are stepping up support for the judiciary as it comes under fresh attack from President Jair Bolsonaro, who is gearing up for a re-election campaign by questioning the integrity of a voting system run by the courts.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday announced a series of steps to revise its policy toward Cuba, including easing some Trump-era restrictions on family remittances and travel to the island and sharply increasing the processing of U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) An aggressive and hard-line approach has been taken to root out rogue officers within the prison system.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran authorities arrested accused cartel leader Herlinda Bobadilla yesterday, following an extradition request for her and her sons by the United States.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Thousands of abortion rights supporters rallied across the United States yesterday, angered by the prospect that the Supreme Court may soon overturn the landmark Roe v.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – A constitutional assembly in the world’s top-copper producing nation yesterday rejected a major overhaul to mining rights, including expanding Chilean state ownership.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba´s ailing economy has begun to recover in some sectors after two years of pandemic-induced contraction but soaring global prices for food and fuel require “audacious” measures to tame inflation, economy minister Alejandro Gil told Cuban lawmakers yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) A Petit Valley man who was deported after illegally entering Grenada is expected to face the court on Friday charged with the 2021 murder of Ricardo Ottley.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Haitian Jonas Joseph juggled running a busy hairdressing salon and a small bar in the capital Portau Prince for five years, allowing him to provide for his young family.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican government is dismissing a claim by under-pressure Commonwealth Secretary General Baroness Patricia Scotland that “there is no vacancy” and that Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Kamina Johnson Smith should end her bid for the top post.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has labelled the country’s crime situation as ‘unusually horrendous’, saying that the country has serious, serious social difficulties.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – At least 11 people drowned when a vessel carrying Haitian migrants capsized near Puerto Rico, the U.S.
(Trinidad Express) A woman was found dead in her home in Blue Basin yesterday, with a piece of cloth covering a fatal wound to her head.
LAS BAMBAS, Peru, (Reuters) – The community of Fuerabamba in the Andean region of Peru was resettled eight years ago to make way for a giant Chinese-owned copper mine, in a $1.2 billion scheme billed as a model solution to protests dogging the South American nation’s mining sector.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina, one of the largest wheat exporters, yesterday became the first country in the world to authorize the planting of GMO wheat when it approved the national commercialization of the HB4 GMO wheat variety developed by Bioceres BIOX.BA.
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