PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitians honored their ancestors to mark the Day of the Dead on Tuesday in colorful voodoo rituals that offered a respite from the tough day-to-day reality of fuel shortages, gang violence and rising malnutrition.
GLASGOW, (Reuters) – Brazil yesterday said it was raising its climate commitments at the start of the COP26 summit, including ending illegal deforestation by 2028, marking a change of tone after more than two years of soaring destruction under President Jair Bolsonaro.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Australian mining billionaire Andrew Forrest is planning what could be up to an $8.4 billion “green hydrogen” investment in Argentina, the South American country’s government said yesterday after a meeting between the businessman and President Alberto Fernandez.
MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega runs for a fourth consecutive term on Sunday in an election seen in Washington as a sham that looks certain to cement his hold on power and deepen the struggling Central American country’s international isolation.
(Trinidad Guardian) – A 28-year-old man from Enterprise, Chaguanas, was murdered in a shooting in Longdenville on Saturday night.
(Trinidad Express) – Two friends were killed and a third man critically injured when he lost control of their car and slammed into a drain off the Uriah Butler Highway in Chaguanas yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Rampant inefficiencies in the Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) project management department have led to the beleaguered State-owned company procuring $81 million in pipelines they may not have needed.
(Trinidad Express) A $50,000 cash reward has been offered for information in locating kidnapped businessman Kartikay Ramsundar.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Ministry of Health has announced 14 new deaths from COVID, including a 4th death attributed to the Delta variant.
(Trinidad Express) More and more Covid-19- positive people are requiring hospital and intensive care unit (ICU) treatment, and nearly all are unvaccinated.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Desperate to have her infant son Pierre admitted to hospital to treat his anemia and diarrhea, Mirlande Cherie set out two weeks ago on an odyssey to find a medical facility that had not already been shuttered by Haiti’s fuel shortages.
(Barbados Nation) – Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has taken the financial institutions to task over high bank fees, her upbraiding coming on the heels of Central Bank Governor Cleviston Haynes announcing a cap on point of sale and ATM fees for banks and credit unions.
(Reuters) – Potential bidders for the bankrupt Limetree Bay refinery in the Virgin Islands may be on the hook for newly discovered groundwater contamination near the site and numerous other unspecified costs, according to a letter from environmental regulators reviewed by Reuters.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Sky-rocketing freight rates will now add to the already high prices of goods initially triggered by global supply chain disruptions.
(Trinidad Express) A security officer protecting a cigarette delivery van was ambushed by six armed criminals and shot dead during a robbery in Valencia yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Transgender activist Brandy Rodriguez has died. Rodriguez was the founder of the Trinidad and Tobago Transgender Coalition.
A male passenger has died on a Caribbean Airlines (CAL) aircraft which was en route to Barbados.
(Trinidad Guardian) Just over three months after his wife and stepson were killed in Arima, Mario Gomez was fatally shot early on this morning at St John’s Road in St Augustine.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday confirmed that the global supply chain clogs at major US and UK ports will have a “very serious” ripple effect on the importation of goods to T&T.
(Trinidad Express) The relatives of one of two men shot dead at a Carapo garage on Monday night claimed he was in the wrong place at the wrong time.
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