BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Landslides and flooding from heavy rains in Sao Paulo state have killed at least 19 people since Friday, including seven children, public safety officials said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Virgin Atlantic is back! After a forced break of almost two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK carrier has restarted flights to Tobago as part of a wider resumption of services to the Caribbean.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean protesters marched against immigration and crime in the Andean country’s far north yesterday, with some violent factions destroying belongings from migrant camps in the streets amid growing tension in the region over border controls.
(Trinidad Guardian) Virgin Atlantic is back! After a forced break of almost two years due to the COVID-19 pandemic, the UK carrier has restarted flights to Tobago as part of a wider resumption of services to the Caribbean.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan authorities have detained a mayor belonging to the ruling Socialist party and two elected deputies as part of an operation against drug trafficking, the government said, without saying if any drugs were seized.
(Trinidad Express) – A ten-year-old boy died on Thursday night after he was shot in the head at his home in Arima.
QUITO, (Reuters) – OCP Ecuador, the operator of Ecuador’s privately held heavy crude pipeline, suspended pumping crude yesterday as a preventative measure after it ruptured in the Amazon, and began cleaning and repairs.
ROME, (Reuters) – Italy has rejected a request by Venezuela for the extradition of Rafael Ramirez, a once powerful oil minister and former head of state oil company Petroleos de Venezuela, his lawyer said on Saturday.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina has struck an agreement in principle with the International Monetary Fund over a new $44.5 billion standby deal, both sides said yesterday, a major breakthrough in tense talks to restructure loans the country cannot repay.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s environment ministry and Repsol SA yesterday increased the estimated size of a Pacific Ocean oil spill at a company refinery to over 10,000 barrels – significantly higher than an initial estimate of 6,000 barrels.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro did not show up to testify yesterday, after a Supreme Court Justice subpoenaed him and ordered federal police to question him in an investigation about leaked documents.
(Barbados Nation) More than 60 Barbadian students are now awaiting the final word on their 2020 CAPE and Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) results.
(Trinidad Guardian) Almost 150 employees of Scotiabank are set to be out of a job by the end of May.
(Trinidad Guardian) Investigators believe the broad daylight murders of two men who were gunned down while in the car park of South Park Mall, in San Fernando on Thursday, was a well-planned execution.
(Trinidad Express) Seventy nationals have lost their jobs following the decision of the Shanghai Construction Group to throw in the trowel on the construction of the Central Block at the Port of Spain General Hospital (POSGH) project.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Supreme Court justice yesterday subpoenaed Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro and ordered police to question him in an investigation into leaked documents in which he has resisted testifying.
(Trinidad Guardian) After spending almost 15 years on remand and facing two trials, two friends from Point Fortin have been freed of murdering a fellow resident in 2007.
(Trinidad Guardian) The search for missing local model, actress and brand promotions representative Vanna Girod, fondly called Vanna Vee, ended tragically on Wednesday after her body was found near a beach in Arnos Vale in Tobago.
(Trinidad Guardian) All 65 people who were held on a party boat in Carenage earlier this month have now been charged with breaching the Public Health Regulations.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Cuban peso was trading at nearly 100 to the dollar on the informal market today, according to a trader and online trackers, a depreciation of more than 30% in less than a month and four times the fixed official rate.
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