BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Hackers briefly disabled three websites belonging to the Brazilian government early yesterday in the latest of an international wave of cyber attacks on companies and organizations.
(Trinidad Express) Low-fares airline REDjet says the integrity of its safety has been “unfairly maligned”, following a meeting of transport ministers in Trinidad and Tobago.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – John Kufuor of Ghana and Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva of Brazil won the $250,000 World Food Prize for cutting hunger in half while serving as president of their nations, the prize organizers announced yesterday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s parliament yesterday rejected President Michel Martelly’s choice for prime minister, delivering an early political blow to the new Haitian leader.
(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Transparency Institute (TTTI) said on Monday it was regrettable that FIFA has apparently closed the investigation into bribery allegations against Jack Warner, without formally clearing his name.
(Trinidad Express) Mem-bers of the business community are condemning plans by the trade union movement to shut down the country and are urging them to settle their issues through dialogue.
HAVANA (Reuters) – A 15-year effort to improve Communist Cuba’s shoddy bookkeeping and root out corruption has made progress but there is still much to be done, a national audit published on Sunday showed.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Attorney-at-Law Jacqueline Samuels Brown has started to make submissions on behalf of convicted attempted hijacker Stephen Fray, in the case brought before the appeals court.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – A car bomb wounded 17 people in Colombia’s colonial-era city of Popayan, but a “calamity” was averted when police intercepted the vehicle before it reached its target in the main square, authorities said yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) A St Michael Man accused of buggering two schoolboys has been remanded to Dodds Prisons until July 15.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Seventeen-year-old Mark Braun was born in Jamaica with debilitating birth defects that left his legs upside down and crossed.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A mole in the Ministry of Finance provided the United States Embassy in Kingston insider information on almost every move made by then Finance Minister Dr Omar Davies.
(Trinidad Guardian) Majority state-owned Telecommunications Services of T&T (TSTT) is set to award a multi-million dollar advertising contract to Ross Advertising Ltd, the advertising agency of People’s Partnership, owned by Ernie Ross.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez met with Cuban President Raul Castro and former leader Fidel Castro as he “recovers satisfactorily” from surgery in Havana last week, Cuban press reported yesterday.
LA JOLLA, Calif. , (Reuters) – The arrival of a unique oil rig off communist Cuba is set to cause waves in Washington, raising questions about U.S.
(Barbados Nation) Nearly 70 000 Barbadians have filed their income tax returns electronically and, according to Inland Revenue senior inspector Neville Clarke, the system has proved to be a success with seven in every ten working Barbadians completing their forms on the computer.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Revelations of a surge in the personal wealth of the Brazilian government’s influential chief of staff seem unlikely to cost him his job but could drag on and become a major headache for President Dilma Rousseff.
(Trinidad Guardian) For the past decade, intelligence units have been gathering information on the expansion of the Chinese Triad, a highly organised criminal unit which has spread its tentacles throughout the Caribbean.
(Trinidad Express) “Mr Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning is accordingly suspended from the service of this House with immediate effect,” declared House Speaker Wade Mark on Monday night.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil will take new steps to protect local industries from a strong exchange rate, including an investigation of Chinese imports that come in improperly through other countries, its trade minister told Reuters yesterday.
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