Regional News

PARIS,  (Reuters) – Guadeloupe-born author Maryse Conde, who wrote about colonialism, slavery and the French-Caribbean diaspora, died in southern France at the age of 90.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – In just three years, Brazil’s hugely popular Pix payment system has become the country’s favorite way to pay, replacing cash and wire transfers in many cases and now threatening the dominance of credit cards in the booming e-commerce sector.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Panic set in around downtown Port-au-Prince yesterday as wild shooting filled the streets of Haiti’s capital, with heavy gunfire near the national palace.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peru’s president replaced six ministers yesterday after they abruptly resigned, amid a fresh political scandal involving luxury watches that targets her, adding more volatility to the South American nation’s increasingly rocky politics.

(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on Sunday outlined several economic measures he said he was directly involved in to save the day for Trinidad and Tobago.

SAO PAULO/MARACAY, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuela is battling a record number of wildfires, according to data released today, as a climate change-driven drought plagues the Amazon rainforest region.

HOUSTON/BUENOS AIRES,  (Reuters)  – Energy companies from Argentina and Brazil have begun talks on reversing the southerly flow of a Bolivian natural gas pipeline network that connects the three countries as a regional gas deficit could force Brazil to pay up for alternative supplies of the fuel.A

MOSCOW,  (Reuters) – The Kremlin today dismissed a report that Russian military intelligence may be behind the mysterious “Havana syndrome” ailment that has afflicted U.S.

(Trinidad Guardian) A combination of alcohol, along with the noise emanating from an apartment above at Building 16, Oropune Gardens, Piarco, are believed to be what led a suspect to kill a father and son on Saturday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Kevin Francois’s last act as he came face to face with armed gunmen on Thursday night, was to shield his three-year-old son from the hail of bullets that cut him and his brother down.

MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A boat carrying Chinese migrants capsized off the coast of the Mexican southern state of Oaxaca, killing eight migrants, and Mexican authorities said over the weekend that they were investigating the incident.

(Trinidad Guardian) Officers of the North Central Division Major Crimes Unit, led by Sgt Thomas, later arrested the suspect, who had been locked in an apartment.

(Trinidad Guardian) Quick work by the newly formed response unit in the North Central Division led to the arrest of a suspect who killed a father and son and injured two others during a stabbing incident in Oropune Gardens, Piarco, yesterday.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuadorean authorities yesterday said they had captured a leader of a powerful gang, Los Lobos, which has been accused of involvement in the assassination of the country’s anti-corruption presidential candidate last August.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peruvian President Dina Boluarte yesterday said she would not resign after her house was raided as part of inquiries into possible illicit enrichment and failure to declare ownership of luxury watches.

The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday said that its first President, Justice Michael de la Bastide passed away on 30 March 2024.

(Trinidad Express) Five weeks after he was shot in Enterprise, Chaguanas, a 46-year-old man has died at hospital.

(Trinidad Express) An elderly man who was on a visit from Canada, has been killed in his family’s home by intruders.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuban Roman Catholics held public processions across the Communist-run country yesterday to mark Good Friday, but there was at least one exception in Havana where 150 of the faithful were relegated to the church parking lot.

LIMA,  (Reuters) – Peruvian prosecutors raided the home of President Dina Boluarte late yesterday as part of inquiries into possible illicit enrichment and failure to declare ownership of luxury watches.