Regional News

(Trinidad Guardian) – A worker was shot dead after he tried to escape during a robbery at a jewellery store on High Street, San Fernando, yesterday.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – The leader of a group of Haitians concerned about the Caribbean country’s future called yesterday for the formation of a provisional government to bolster security and ensure free elections in two years.

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Intense fires in Colombia’s Amazon region so far this year point to rising deforestation by people clearing land for ranching and other uses, alarming environment groups, while officials also warned of pollution caused by smoke.

(Trinidad Express) Hitmen are being hired from criminal gangs to murder people.

(Trinidad Express) Police have confirmed they are investigating the alleged failure of Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi to transfer the motor vehicle registration of a car which he sold to former member of the Police Service Commission (PolSC) Roger Kawalsingh.

VENTANILLA, Peru,  (Reuters) – Spanish energy firm Repsol SA said yesterday it will only finish cleaning up a large oil spill off the coast of Peru in late March, pushing back an earlier timeline it had set of late February.

CARTAGENA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Venezuela is moving troops to the border with Colombia with technical assistance from Russia and Iran, Colombia’s Defense Minister Diego Molano said yesterday, calling the possible deployment “foreign interference.”

(Trinidad Express) More than 450 workers are expected to be retrenched from majority State-owned telecommunications provider TSTT.

CARTAGENA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Venezuela is moving troops to the border with Colombia with technical assistance from Russia and Iran, Colombia’s Defense Minister Diego Molano said today, calling the possible deployment “foreign interference.”

(Trinidad Express) More than 450 workers are expected to be retrenched from majority State-owned telecommunications provider TSTT.

(Trinidad Guardian) One day after police identified 21-year-old Keithisha Cudjoe as the latest woman to be murdered in 2022, someone shot a San Fernando mother of two after she left for work yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Investigations are continuing into a murder that took place in broad daylight in Enterprise, Chaguanas yesterday afternoon.

(Trinidad Guardian) January 2022 ended with 50 murders, a figure that was double that of last year and given the constant rising number of murders and violent crimes, a criminologist has suggested that T&T seems heading to become a mafia country.

In a judgment released yesterday, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) in its Appellate Jurisdiction, allowed the appeal of the Barbados Commissioner of Police, in the matter of Commissioner of Police v Stephen Alleyne.

(Trinidad Guardian) A decomposed body that was found at the Heights of Aripo on Friday has been identified as that of a Cocorite woman who was reported missing on the weekend, 21-year-old Keithisha Cudjoe, a mother of one.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Part of a major expressway collapsed yesterday above a construction site in the Brazilian city of Sao Paulo where Spain’s Acciona SA was excavating a tunnel for a new subway line.

QUITO, (Reuters) – At least 14 people died and another 32 were injured in a landslide in the north of Ecuador’s capital Quito, the country’s emergency response office said today, as firefighter rescue crews continue searching homes and streets covered by mud.

(Trindiad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says corruption in the Public Service has been flourishing.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru Environment Minister Ruben Ramirez said yesterday the government will temporarily suspend Repsol’s offshore oil unloading operations following a spill of over 10,000 barrels that has caused widespread environmental damage.

(Trinidad Express) Former police commissioner Gary Griffith said yesterday the Trinidad and Tobago Police Service (TTPS) was “starved of resources” while he was at the helm.