PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s former dictator Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier, who faces charges of corruption and rights abuses after returning from exile in January, is being treated in a hospital after falling ill, aides said yesterday.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Criss-crossing Venezuela armed with promises of change, opposition leaders are jostling for position to run against President Hugo Chavez, convinced they can end his long rule with a mix of centre-left policies.
Historic charter of rights for Jamaicans In a rare bipartisan vote, Jamaica’s House of Representatives has approved a modern charter of civil, political and social rights.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro said yesterday he quit all his official positions when he fell ill in 2006, including head of the ruling Communist Party.
Cabinet member’s son to be extradited The son of a senior Cabinet minister in Bermuda, is to be extradited from the United States to answer to charges of attempted murder.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez said yesterday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The United Nations urged Haitians yesterday to calmly wait for the first results due next week of Sunday’s presidential run-off, saying the earthquake-battered nation’s democratic future was at stake.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela, long accused by the United States of being lax in the fight against drugs, deported six “highly dangerous” suspects yesterday and said the move showed its commitment to combatting organized crime.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitians voted in large numbers yesterday to elect a president for their earthquake-scarred country, choosing between a singer and a former first lady in a generally peaceful run-off.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said yesterday that Brazil’s emergence as a powerful democracy was an example other nations could follow, as young people in the Middle East and north Africa rebelled for greater freedom.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide made a triumphant homecoming to Haiti yesterday after seven years of exile, returning despite U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) There is turbulence once again at Caribbean Airlines and there may soon be vomiting in the cockpit of the state-owned carrier.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Rioting halted construction at two major Brazilian hydroelectric dams in the Amazon, delaying key projects in President Dilma Rousseff’s ambitious infrastructure plan.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil has closed a legal loophole used by foreigners to buy farm land, a change of rules that is fueling uncertainty among agricultural investors in one of the world’s leading food exporters.
(Jamaica Observer) MONTEGO BAY, St James — Members of the police force escorted international rap star DJ Drake from the well-attended Brit Jam stage show in Montego Bay early Monday morning.
(Jamaica Observer) Most inner-city communities which were once ruled by a fearsome strongman have turned over a new leaf and are no longer subscribing to the dictates of the don, representatives of the Citizen Security and Justice Programme (CSJP) told the Observer on Monday.
(Jamaica Observer) Justice Minister Dorothy Lightbourne was on Monday accused of corruptly using her office in the Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke extradition saga to protect the political career of Prime Minister Bruce Golding and the political interest of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP).
(Trinidad Express) Five doctors and four nurses were on Monday suspended from the San Fernando General Hospital following a preliminary investigation into the death of Chrystal Boodoo-Ramsoomair.
(Jamaica Observer) The Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) and the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) on Monday launched a Regional Anti-Corruption Law-Enforcement Conference aimed at forging an alliance between Caribbean law enforcement entities.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States yesterday urged Haiti’s exiled former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide to delay his return until after Haiti’s March 20 run-off presidential election.
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