By John Kemp LONDON, (Reuters) – Brazil’s gas imports fell to their lowest level for two decades in 2023 as its brimming hydroelectric reservoirs and rapid wind and solar deployment hit thermal power demand.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama denied a request from Nicaragua to allow safe passage for ex-President Ricardo Martinelli to leave the country, according to a foreign ministry statement published on Friday, after the former leader was granted asylum by the Nicaraguan government.
(Trinidad Guardian) A police officer has been killed following a shooting outside a bar in Couva in the wee hours on Thursday.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – State energy company Pemex released large volumes of methane from an oil platform in the Gulf of Mexico last year, with leaks recurring even after a United Nations agency flagged problems there to the Mexican government, according to a Reuters analysis of previously unreported U.N.
(Trinidad Guardian) A police officer has been killed following a shooting outside a bar in Couva in the wee hours of this morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher has been ordered to reopen the screening process for prospective officers to include those who may have been previously excluded due to their height.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian police today confiscated former President Jair Bolsonaro’s passport and accused him of editing a draft decree to overturn election results, pressuring military chiefs to join a coup attempt and plotting to jail a Supreme Court justice.
(Trinidad Guardian) Massy Holdings Ltd announced yesterday the early retirement of Gervase Warner, the group’s president and CEO.
(Trinidad Express) Tobago’s serene waters were yesterday marred after an overturned vessel off its south-western coast near Canoe Bay saw an ‘extensive’ oil spill polluting the area, in some cases reaching the coastline.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – At least five agents of Haiti’s BSAP, an armed environmental agency that in recent years has evolved into a paramilitary body, were killed in a shootout with national police in Port-au-Prince yesterday, the police trade union told reporters.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Dengue fever has surged in Brazil’s hot rainy season, forcing health authorities to take emergency measures and start mass vaccination against the mosquito-borne illness.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s Constitutional Court yesterday approved a request from a terminally ill patient to decriminalize euthanasia and ordered the National Assembly to approve a law regulating the procedure within a year.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A former Honduran police chief has pleaded guilty to a U.S.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s government said yesterday it had granted asylum to Panama’s former President Ricardo Martinelli, after the ex-leader, currently facing a lengthy prison sentence at home, requested the protection at Nicaragua’s embassy in Panama City.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Former Chilean President Sebastian Pinera died from asphyxiation due to submersion after the helicopter he was piloting crashed into a lake in southern Chile on Tuesday, the local prosecutor’s office reported yesterday.
(Reuters) – A supplier to brands including Nestle, Kellogg’s and Colgate has been farming palm oil on deforested land in one of the best-preserved areas of Peru’s Amazon rainforest, an environmental group said in an investigative report released on Wednesday.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – A major economic reform package championed by Argentina’s libertarian President Javier Milei will be sent back to a legislative committee for consideration, the president’s party said yesterday, marking a major setback for the bill.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A manager at a U.S. subsidiary of Mexican state oil company Pemex expected a “cash register” of bribes would “start ringing” once he gave inside information to an employee of the world’s largest oil trader, Vitol, trial evidence showed yesterday.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean ex-President Sebastian Pinera died in a helicopter crash today in the south of the country, three sources told Reuters.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – The landslide re-election of El Salvador President Nayib Bukele was cheered by supporters of his gang crackdown, but has worried opponents who fear the country is sliding into a de facto one-party state.
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