BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Nine people died and 28 are missing after a multidecked tourist boat carrying about 170 passengers sank in Colombia’s Penol-Guatape reservoir yesterday during the long holiday weekend, a government official said.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Eight people from a little-known urban guerrilla group have been arrested in connection with a bombing last week at an upscale mall in the Colombian capital Bogota, the police said on Saturday.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Organization of American States President Luis Almagro offered yesterday to resign if Venezuela holds free elections and enacts reforms to protect democracy in the troubled South American nation.
(Reuters) – Brazil’s top federal prosecutor will level corruption charges against President Michel Temer one at a time instead of making all the accusations at once, a strategy aimed at weakening his defense, a source with direct knowledge of the process told Reuters yesterday.
OSLO, (Reuters) – Norway told visiting Brazilian President Michel Temer yesterday that it would slash its payments to help safeguard the Amazon rainforest in 2017 by more than half to about $35 million because of a rise in forest destruction.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – President Michelle Bachelet asked for forgiveness from Chile’s indigenous Mapuche people yesterday for “errors and horrors” committed by the state and announced plans to give them more power and resources.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A justice at Brazil’s Federal Supreme Court has delivered to the country’s top prosecutor the bulk of an investigation into allegations that Presi-dent Michel Temer took bribes in exchange for political favours doled out to meatpacker JBS SA.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan troops yesterday fired what appeared to be rubber bullets at protesters as they attacked the perimeter of an airbase, and a demonstrator was killed, bringing the death toll to at least 76 in unrest since April.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – The liberalization of marijuana laws is fueling drug trafficking but Cuba will not follow the trend of loosening restrictions on marijuana, a government official said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The third victim of Monday’s triple murder at John John, East Port-of-Spain has been identified as Venezuelan national Miguel Matillo, 24.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s Foreign Minister Delcy Rodriguez left her post yesterday to run for a seat in a controversial new congress, drawing praise from her boss as a “tiger” for her feisty defense of the socialist government.
(Trinidad Express) More than 24 hours after the passage of Tropical Storm Bret most of St Helena Village, located minutes away from the Piarco International Airport, remains under flood.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s Congress dismissed the finance minister yesterday following revelations that he asked the comptroller to green light a controversial project, a fresh blow to centrist President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski and his efforts to jumpstart the faltering economy.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A New York fashion designer who has called himself the “curator of cool” pleaded guilty yesterday to charges stemming from a bribery case that involves a brother and nephew of former United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon.
(Trinidad Guardian) Tropical Storm Bret is being indirectly blamed for the death of a 43-year-old construction worker in East Trinidad yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) The full scale of the damage left in the wake of Tropical Storm Bret is only now becoming apparent.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Brazilian Senate committee yesterday rejected President Michel Temer’s labor reform bill, in an unexpected blow to his administration that does not kill the pro-market proposal but shows weakening support for his agenda.
(Trinidad Express) As at 5a.m Tuesday, the Tropical Storm Warning was discontinued for Trinidad and Tobago, Grenada and its dependencies.
CANCUN, Mexico, (Reuters) – Foreign ministers from across the Americas failed to reach agreement at a meeting yesterday on a resolution criticizing the government of Venezuela, which saw more violent protests in its capital as the discussions deadlocked in Mexico.
(Trinidad Express) Three men have been shot dead at John John, Laventille.
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