Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) “It have some animals outside there, some demons, because I don’t know what to call them,” a tearful Patrice Cudjoe said while gazing at her daughter’s casket.

 (Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has once again sympathised with the family of the infant killed when the Coast Guard ­intercepted a vessel carrying Venezuelan migrants.

(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuelan father Yemmi Santoyo had a day of mixed emotions yesterday when he had to identify the body of his baby boy, who was shot dead by members of the Coast Guard over the weekend, but was hours after reunited with his daughter.

(Trinidad Guardian) A hearse belonging to Dennie’s Funeral Home caught afire while carrying a body to his funeral along the North Coast Road yesterday.

MIRITI-PARANA, Colombia  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Scurrying nimbly through thick Colombian Amazon rainforest, teenager Pablo Galindo Tanimuca abruptly slows his pace and puts a finger to his lips, asking for silence as he approaches a small salt-water pond regarded as sacred by his indigenous community.

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has said that the shooting death of a Venezuelan baby by the Coast Guard on Saturday was an accident and added that the Coast Guard members were carrying out “reasonable and professional orders under international protocols and law”.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – At least 14 people were killed and 35 injured after a landslide covered several homes in central Colombia yesterday, the country’s disaster management agency said.

BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters) – Thousands of Argentines marched through the streets of Buenos Aires yesterday to protest against a likely deal with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to revamp more than $40 billion of debt the country cannot pay back.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – The United States will contribute $8 million to Colombia’s national police to support human rights and anti-corruption training of the force, U.S.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuelan gang leader Carlos Revette, known as El Koki and wanted by authorities for months, was killed in a police operation near Caracas, Interior Minister Remigio Ceballos said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Venezuela’s government has urged T&T authorities to carry out an “exhaustive investigation” to clarify the death of a child who migrated to this country with his mother and who died after presumably, the boat in which he was traveling was shot at by the Coast Guard.

(Trinidad Guardian) A devastating fire destroyed nine automotive businesses in Bamboo Number Two yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) The atrocity suffered by Katherine Akum Lum when lye was used instead of distilled water after her hysterectomy at a public hospital has sparked a firestorm on social media.

MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan lawmakers loyal to President Daniel Ortega yesterday passed legislation allowing the state to take over six universities the government effectively shut down last week, in a move critics say entrench authoritarianism.

HOUSTON/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Biden administration is considering a Chevron Corp proposal to allow the U.S.

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Coast Guard is attempting to explain how its officers came to fire upon a Venezuelan migrant vessel, and act that killed a baby on board the boat.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 15-year-old boy was among three people killed on Saturday night in Diego Martin.

(Trinidad Guardian) A 14-year-old boy is among four people shot dead in Diego Martin.

(Trinidad Guardian) As a single and independent mother, Katherine Akum Lum was living her best life.

(Trinidad Express) – Even as he noted that instances of corruption were widespread in Trinidad and Tobago, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday “the time has come to stop pretending that the angel Gabriel will come down and save us from ourselves”.