Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from BBC News - Latin America & Caribbean
Brazil manager Carlo Ancelotti is sentenced to a year in prison by a Spanish court for tax evasion - but he will not have to serve time in jail.Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Mexico | The Guardian
Deportees include two people from Myanmar, two from Cuba, and one each from Vietnam, Laos and Mexico War-torn South Sudan has said it is holding a group of eight men controversially deported from the United States. Only one of them is...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from NYT > Americas
The men who were arrested have links to Canada’s military, and the police recovered a large cache of guns and explosives.Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from NYT > Americas
Tariff negotiations between the two top trading partners are on a different track from those the U.S. is pursuing with other nations. But Canada may not get a better outcome.Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from NYT > Americas
The city’s largest public sector union and the mayor reached a tentative deal, ending a work stoppage that led to piles of trash on the streets.Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Trinidad Guardian) With the United States set to implement reciprocal tariffs by August 1, 2025, Caricom Chair Andrew Holness says while talks with the Donald Trump administration continue, the time has come for the region to take trade...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Trinidad Guardian) Prominent attorney Martin George has been charged with two counts of sexual assault by police. The article Prominent Trinidad attorney charged with sexual assault appeared first on Stabroek News .Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from NYT > Americas
Top concerns include the displacement of longtime residents as rents and food prices surge. Ire over the influx of well-heeled foreigners has been building for years.Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Mexico | The Guardian
A market-centered model and growing inequality led to rightwing ascendance. This moment calls for a new regional solidarity The second world war ended with an agreement of coexistence that included the creation of the UN multilateral...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from NYT > Americas
A 5.7-magnitude earthquake and its aftershocks near Guatemala City led to landslides that were reported to have killed at least two people.Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government plans to introduce the post of Lord Chancellor of the Judiciary to oversee the day-to-day logistics and running of the courts, and nationwide consultations will be held on this major change. The article...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Trinidad Guardian) A law will be brought to the Parliament to raise the legal age for gambling and marijuana use to 25 years and over and also increase the legal age for alcohol use to 21 years and older. The article Trinidad PM raises...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Illegal armed groups in Colombia have added thousands of members and expanded their territorial control in the last three years, despite government efforts to negotiate ceasefires, according to an internal...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Trinidad Guardian) Antigua and Barbuda Prime Minister Gaston Browne is urging the new Kamla Persad-Bissessar Government to fulfil a commitment made to the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) during the tenure of the People’s...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
While in agreement with Transport Minister Daryl Vaz, that the National Rural Bus Service will be a win win for all, Egerton Newman, president of the Transport Operators Development Sustainable Services (TODSS), says the Government must...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Mayor of Kingston Andrew Swaby yesterday expressed dissatisfaction with Matthew Samuda, the minister with responsibility for water and housing, and the National Water Commission (NWC) over what he described as their poor treatment of...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
WESTERN BUREAU. Four CARICOM member states will be implementing free movement of the region’s nationals by October 1, 2025, marking a major step forward in regional integration under the entity’s Single Market and Economy (CSME)....Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
The chief crime scene examiner from the Independent Commission of Investigations (INDECOM) testified yesterday that he was unaware that the police had visited and processed Constable Noel Maitland’s apartment before his team’s official...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
WESTERN BUREAU: The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) could lose more than US$542 million annually under the United States’ newly imposed reciprocal tariffs, a blow that threatens to unravel decades of export growth, particularly in...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
WESTERN BUREAU: The CARICOM Private Sector Organisation (CPSO) is warning that the region faces a looming economic threat from the International Maritime Organization (IMO) global carbon tax, which could significantly increase the cost...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
WESTERN BUREAU: Agriculture Minister Floyd Green is urging the Western Central Atlantic Fishery Commission (WECAFC) to remain committed to safeguarding fisheries across its member states – especially the livelihoods of local artisanal...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
WESTERN BUREAU: Prime Minister Andrew Holness is calling for a transformation in the relationship between Africa and the Caribbean and wants the region’s leaders to turn their shared history into practical partnerships with the capacity...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Professor Clive Landis, pro vice-chancellor and principal of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Cave Hill, has warned that the freedom to disagree peacefully is under threat. Speaking at the UWI Vice-Chancellor’s Forum on ‘Academic...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
After five years of closed gates and shifting timelines, the long-promised reopening of the Rockfort Mineral Bath has again been postponed, this time to the end of July, causing disappointment among hopeful patrons. This promise was made...Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from NYT > Americas
Secretary of State Marco Rubio and the U.S. envoy to Venezuela were both working on different deals and ended up at cross purposes.Wednesday, July 9, 2025 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
Immigration enforcement operations across Los Angeles are 'ongoing,' a Homeland Security official said.Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
TSA is now allowing people to keep their shoes on during a security screening at some airports. It is not clear when that policy takes effect at LAX.Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from NYT > Americas
Both American survivors of the mass suicide and murder and Guyanese have criticized the tour. But defenders say the site offers important lessons.Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
The Supreme Court's conservatives said it was a federal judge in San Francisco, not President Trump, who exceeded her authority.Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Mexico | The Guardian
Team of firefighters and first responders volunteer along Guadalupe River after mass flooding in show of solidarity A contingent of firefighters and first responders from Mexico arrived in Texas over the weekend to aid in search and...Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Latin America
The Hotel Oloffson in Haiti's capital Port-au-Prince, long a haven for artists and writers, poets and presidents, a symbol of Haiti's troubled politics and its storied past, has been destroyed by gangs.Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from NYT > Americas
The outrage reflects the growing difficulty of affording a city that has become a hot spot for Western immigrants.Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from The City Paper Bogotá » News
Colombian Senator Miguel Uribe Turbay leads early polls for the 2026 presidential race despite recovering from a June 7 assassination attempt. Authorities have arrested alias El Costeño, one of the alleged masterminds behind the attack....Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from NYT > Americas
The Bird Banding Laboratory has turned duck hunters into citizen scientists. What happens if it is defunded?Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from NYT > Americas
A small company in northern Mexico had faced steep competition from China in making straps, plugs, fasteners, grommets, zip ties and clamps. Now, U.S. tariffs have driven a spike in his business.Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from BBC News - Latin America & Caribbean
The man's real identity has been discovered using DNA, after his sister persevered with the search for her long-lost brother for decades.Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Mexico & the Americas - Los Angeles Times
In Japan, swarms of earthquakes are fueling a dip in tourism and a viral panic over predictions of the next 'big one'Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from NYT > Americas
Haiti’s famed Oloffson Hotel, a cultural landmark and celebrity haven, was incinerated amid rising violence by gangs that control most of the country’s capital.Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has cautioned the region to move towards controlling its own information and generating its own content, lest it falls victim to a new type of control. The article Barbados PM: Let’s...Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will terminate deportation protections for thousands of Hondurans and Nicaraguans living in the United States, according to U.S. The article Trump to end deportation...Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Stabroek News » Regional News
(Jamaica Gleaner) Fifteen years after joining the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as its youngest judge, Jamaica-born Justice Winston Anderson has reached a new milestone. The article Anderson sworn in as 4th CCJ president, calls on...Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Attorney Hugh Wildman is calling for a formal investigation into the conduct of a police investigator and the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in their handling of sexual offence charges against his client, Brian M*,...Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from Latin America
The government of El Salvador has acknowledged to United Nations investigators that the Trump administration maintains control of the men who were deported from the U.S. to a Salvadoran prison.Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
The People’s National Party (PNP) is sharpening its political claws for what it is hoping will be a historic takeover of Manchester – a parish that has not been fully clothed in orange since 1989-1993. Back then, it was Calvin Lyn who...Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
WESTERN BUREAU: Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley has warned that the Caribbean nations cannot confront escalating violence, gun proliferation, and transnational crime with outdated justice systems or isolated national efforts. She...Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Lucien Jones, the vice-chairman of the National Road Safety Council (NRSC), wants the police to treat reckless drivers with the same urgency and seriousness as violent criminals. Speaking against the background of...Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
WESTERN BUREAU: Dr Mohamed Irfaan Ali, president of Guyana, says there is an urgent need for a coordinated regional action to tackle pressing challenges facing the Caribbean, including climate change, national security, and the full...Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
WESTERN BUREAU: Barbados Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley is urging all Caribbean nations to fully embrace the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) by making it their final appellate court, saying it is a matter of sovereignty, security, and...Tuesday, July 8, 2025 from BREAKING NEWS: Latin America (Central America & Caribbean)
Tax Administration Jamaica (TAJ) says the retrofitting of its Greenvale property in Mandeville is on track for completion by September, even as concerns persist over millions in lease costs incurred since the agreement was signed in...Monday, July 7, 2025 from NYT > Americas
With President Trump preparing to revive tariffs this week, some of the world’s biggest exporters are planning a future less dependent on trade with the United States.