(Reuters) – Haitian gangs are increasingly economically autonomous, a Geneva-based criminal research group warned, using funds coerced from private businesses, local residents and families of kidnapping victims to pay for guns and soldiers.
(Reuters) – First responders and volunteers from Trinidad and Tobago today sought to contain an oil spill detected last week in the Caribbean country’s waters and clean areas of Tobago island’s coast already affected by the incident.
HAVANA/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – At a small cafe in the town of Bejucal outside of Havana, owner Germán Martín tries to organize his life and business around increasingly frequent blackouts.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Police raids on former President Jair Bolsonaro and his associates for allegedly plotting a coup after the 2022 election has weakened right-wing opposition to President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva ahead of October’s local elections, analysts say.
(Trinidad Guardian) Anthony Smith, a Tuna-puna businessman, who was the first person to be convicted as a human trafficker in Trinidad and Tobago, was on Sunday evening captured by a team of police officers.
(Trinidad Guardian) Soca superstar Machel Montano has been crowned this year’s Calypso Monarch.
(Barbados Nation) Increased seismic activity at the Kick ‘em Jenny submarine volcano near Grenada since Friday, February 9, has placed disaster management officials on alert.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says while the Tobago oil spill isn’t completely under control, it remains manageable and the situation should improve with additional resources.
(Trinidad Guardian) A Trinidad-born American resident on her way to the airport to board a flight home yesterday morning never made it.
(Trinidad Guardian) More young Afro-Trinidadian males are dying compared to males in any other age group or ethnicity.
(Trinidad Guardian) Massy Holdings’ president and chief executive Gervase Warner says the disruption caused by the company’s annual general meeting led to his early exit from the organisation.
(Trinidad Express) With a national effort, combined teams in Tobago have been able to contain the oil spill emanating from the Gulfstream vessel.
(Trinidad Express) A major disaster continued to impact Tobago on Friday as an overturned oil products tanker called Gulfstream kept spewing black oily deposits into the ocean, eventually reaching from Scarborough to Lowlands.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba has charged 30 people for stealing 133 tonnes of chicken and selling them on the street in a rare major heist at a time of food shortages in the communist-run nation.
(Trinidad Express) A Muslim police officer who mounted a legal challenge against him being prohibited from growing his beard due to his religious belief has had his claim dismissed.
(Barbados Nation) Government backbencher Ralph Thorne has crossed the floor to become Leader of the Opposition in a stunning move.
(Barbados Nation) Government backbencher Ralph Thorne has crossed the floor to become Leader of the Opposition in a stunning move.
(Trinidad Guardian) Tobago House of Assembly (THA) Chief Secretary Farley Augustine says he may declare the oil spill on the island a tier three disaster by today.
(Reuters) – A former U.S. Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) informant was sentenced to life in prison and another man pleaded guilty yesterday in a U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) Panama-based carrier Copa Airlines will increase service to Port of Spain, Trinidad (POS) from June 5th, 2024.
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