CARACAS, (Reuters) – Military and civilian allies of Venezuela’s convalescent President Hugo Chavez insisted yesterday he was still running the OPEC oil-producing nation despite his prolonged absence in Cuba for the removal of a cancerous tumor.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Despite a recent move to classify mobile phones as possibly carcinogenic, the scientific evidence increasingly points away from a link between their use and brain tumours, according to a new study yesterday.
Six Caribbean countries are to benefit from technical assistance grants from the USA under the Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas (ECPA), but Guyana is not among them.
(Trinidad Express) The health of the local economy depends on the country’s ability to fix the disparity between the wages of men and women.
(Trinidad Guardian) A father was sentenced on Wednesday to a total of 57 years in prison with hard labour for having sex on three occasions with his young daughter and sexually assaulting her.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Senator Dorothy Lightbourne has been dumped from her post as justice minister and attorney general, making her the biggest casualty of the long-anticipated reshuffle of the Bruce Golding Cabinet.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The United States Embassy in Kingston has finally responded to Prime Minister Bruce Golding’s allegation that its officials were, among other things, “belligerent and aggressive” in diplomatic talks relating to the extradition request for accused drug kingpin Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.
NEW YORK, (Reuters Life!) – Flights at John F. Kennedy International Airport were delayed shortly yesterday when about 150 diamondback terrapin turtles were spotted crossing a runway, authorities said.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Annual funding for research and development (R&D) in the fight against malaria has quadrupled over 16 years, generating the strongest pipeline of potential treatments in history, according to a report yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) With Jamaica getting ready to celebrate 50 years of political independence from the United Kingdom next year, most Jamaicans are of the view that the country would have been better off had it remained a colony of Britain.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Demands by Venezuela’s opposition for information on President Hugo Chavez’s health grew louder yesterday and bond prices rallied on speculation the socialist leader could be seriously ill.
(Trinidad Express) – A letter of complaint from the Congress of the People (COP) denouncing changes in the People’s Partnership administration was delivered to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Sunday night.
(Trinidad Express) Business mogul Lawrence Duprey on Thursday made moves to stall the Commission of Enquiry into the collapse of financial conglomerate CL Financial, scheduled to kick off on Monday.
(Jamaica Observer) The World Bank (WB), in its Country Economic Memorandum (CEM) on Jamaica dismisses claims by Jamaican firms that access to financing, or crowding out, is a major hindrance to business development, pointing instead to crime, the high cost of electricity and low workers’ skills as the top three major constraints and noted that Jamaican firms complain more than other firms.
(Trinidad Express) Irish mobile phone services provider Digicel Group Ltd has shown what it calls robust growth in its financial performance for its year ended March 31, 2011.
(Jamaica Observer) Reggae artiste Buju Banton was yesterday sentenced to 10 years by United States magistrate Jim Moody in the Sam M Gibbons US Court in Tampa Florida.
(Trinidad Express) The prevalence of serious crime in the Caribbean is stunting economic growth in the region and is deterring investors from coming to this part of the world.
PORT OF SPAIN, (Reuters) – Trinidad and Tobago’s parliamentary opposition yesterday called on the prime minister to fire former FIFA vice-president Jack Warner from her government, days after he resigned from soccer’s world governing body.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – The most verbose president on the planet is strangely silent.
(Trinidad Express) Sasha Mohammed, adviser to Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, has for the first time denied that she sent threatening e-mails to Express editor-in-chief Omatie Lyder and reporter Anna Ramdass.
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