CHAGUARAMAS, Trinidad and Tobago, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Unemployed and without food to feed his family, Venezuelan construction worker Robert Monterosi says there is only one way he can survive – dodging customs officials to sell smuggled goods in neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago and stock up there.
NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Puerto Rico should use some of the billions of dollars in aid pledged after a deadly hurricane last year to fix a flawed land ownership system that is hampering reconstruction, community leaders said in a report published yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) After giving the Government a failing grade during his performance appraisal at the annual Labour Day rally in Fyzabad, Joint Trade Union Movement (JTUM) leader Ancel Roget called on citizens to use the PNM’s third anniversary in office, September 7, to rest and reflect.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s all-powerful Constituent Assembly elected as its head on Tuesday Socialist Party No.
MASAYA, Nicaragua, (Reuters) – Nicaraguan police and masked gunmen clashed with anti-government protesters yesterday, leaving at least two dead following the suspension of peace talks to quell two months of deadly demonstrations, a human rights group said.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 35-year-old mother of three, who had recently taken out a restraining order against a man she knew, was found dead in St James on Monday night.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government is to install 1,000 closed-circuit televisions (CCTVs) in strategic locations islandwide by year-end.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean prosecutors said yesterday they questioned the Vatican’s top sex abuse investigator as he prepared to fly out of the country following a fact-finding and reconciliation mission ordered by the Pope.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 35-year-old mother of three, who had recently taken out a restraining order against a man she knew, was found dead in St James last night.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian President-elect Ivan Duque has promised to unite a divided country behind his plans to toughen a peace accord with Marxist rebels and rekindle economic growth, but he will face major challenges when he takes office in August.
CUCUTA, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Exhausted but relieved, Yariani Flores lay next to her healthy newborn son, along with four other Venezuelan women who just gave birth in a hospital in Colombia’s border city of Cucuta.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Right-wing candidate Ivan Duque won Colombia’s presidential election yesterday, beating leftist Gustavo Petro in a victory that will reassure investors but raised the prospect of changes to a landmark peace accord with Marxist rebels.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The University of the Common-wealth Carib-bean, UCC, has secured 25 acres of land at Caymanas Estate, on the outskirts of Kingston, to be developed as a knowledge city and edu-tourism venture, in partnership with CHEC.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean President Sebastian Pinera’s proposal to create a publicly funded programme to help reduce the burden of student loans would cost $8 billion in its first four years, according to a Finance Ministry report cited by local daily La Tercera yesterday.
Trinidad Guardian: Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley on Friday advised people with concerns that the Carnival terror plot had been fabricated to take up that issue with the government of Jordan.
(Barbados Nation): A team from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) will be back on the island for more talks next month.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – At least seventeen people died at a Caracas club early on Saturday morning when a person activated a tear gas grenade inside, Venezuela’s interior minister Nestor Reverol said.
(Trinidad Guardian) Just two years ago, 12-year-old Nasia Roberts wasn’t sure she would ever walk again.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Talks between the Nicaraguan government and local civil groups to end two months of political unrest hit a snag yesterday after the government dismissed calls for an international probe into violence during the protests that has left 170 people dead.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – A year and a half in Venezuela’s feared prison system, deprived of food and water, caused opposition lawmaker Gilber Caro to lose 18 kg (40 lb), about a fifth of his body weight, he said.
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