Regional News

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Jamaican Bar Association (JAMBAR) has reacted to public outcry over last week’s barring of media from the initial court appearance in the murder case of former Member of Parliament Jolyan Silvera.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Carlos Bolsonaro, a son of former Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro, was targeted by federal police raids today in an investigation into suspected illegal spyingon political foes during his father’s term, two sources familiar with the matter said.

(Barbados Nation) With the radiotherapy machine at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital (QEH) out of operation for several months, close to 100 cancer patients are on a waiting list to get the life-saving procedure in other countries.

(Reuters) – The U.S. is reviewing its sanctions policy against Venezuela after a court in that country upheld a ban preventing  presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado from holding office, the  U.S.

(Reuters) – The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has approved a loan worth $100 million to Paraguay to help the country improve its logistics performance and commercial integration, it said in a statement.

(Trinidad Guardian) The Brydens Group’s regional distribution centre is poised to play a key role in adding to the domestic economy as it will occupy just over 24 acres or approximately 36 per cent of eTeck’s Factory Road Industrial Park with an initial investment value of US$29 million during phase one of development.

 (Reuters) – The United States is reviewing its sanctions policy against Venezuela after a court upheld a ban which prevents presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado from holding office, the State Department said today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Media Association Jamaica (MAJ) Limited has joined the Press Association of Jamaica in calling for restoration of media attendance at the court case involving murder accused Jolyan Silvera.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Supreme Justice Tribunal yesterday upheld a ban which prevents presidential candidate Maria Corina Machado from holding office, upending the opposition’s plans for elections planned later this year.

NAIROBI, (Reuters) – A Kenyan court yesterday rejected a plan to send police officers to Haiti to lead a U.N.-approved

BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia recalled its ambassador to Argentina for consultations yesterday, after Argentine President Javier Milei called his Colombian counterpart Gustavo Petro a “communist murderer.”

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s top court has blocked nine questions that President Daniel Noboa wanted to put to Ecuadoreans in a referendum on security issues, arguing they failed to meet constitutional requirements, it said yesterday.

NAIROBI,  (Reuters) – A Kenyan court today ruled a plan to send police officers to Haiti to lead a U.N.-approved

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – A Brazilian federal judge ruled that miners Vale VALE3.SA

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Brazil’s Abin spy agency allegedly conducted illegal surveillance on at least three Supreme Court Justices and a former Lower House speaker during Jair Bolsonaro’s presidency, according to Supreme Court documents unsealed yesterday.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Environmentalists and Indigenous groups in Ecuador yesterday said that President Daniel Noboa risks being removed from office if he does not comply with a referendum that called for the closure of an oil block in the country’s Amazon.

ACAPULCO, Mexico,  (Reuters) – A volunteer police force in rural Mexico that says it has been overwhelmed by local kidnappings has recruited schoolchildren as young as 12 to join its ranks, the latest sign of how some parts of the country are struggling to cope with organized crime.

(Trinidad Express) A three-year-old Venezuelan girl was grazed by a bullet on Tuesday night when gunmen ambushed and killed her father in Arima.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police launched an operation today to investigate the alleged illegal monitoring of citizens by the Brazilian Intelligence Agency (ABIN) during the administration of former President Jair Bolsonaro.

BRASILIA/MONTEVIDEO,  (Reuters) – South America is seeing a surge in cases of the mosquito-borne disease dengue during the southern hemisphere summer, prompting Brazil to roll out a novel vaccine campaign, while in Argentina many stores have run out of bug spray.