Regional News

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – Creativity and improvisation  have long been the most celebrated trademarks of Brazilian  soccer teams.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cuba will consider term and age  limits for its top officials at an upcoming Communist Party  conference as it seeks fresh leadership of the government led  by the Castro brothers for more than five decades.

(Trinidad Express)  The Central Bank is ready with the bonds for CLICO depositors, Finance Minister Winston Dookeran said on Wednesday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Five more Caribbean nations have given permission for low-cost carrier REDjet to operate flights from their countries.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Illegal migration between Suriname, Guyana, French Guiana and Brazil can only be tackled by consultations and close cooperation.

(Barbados Nation) Barbadians should brace themselves for more job losses for the remainder of this year, says Governor of the Central Bank Dr Delisle Worrell.

PORT-AU-PRINCE,  (Reuters) – Haitian President Michel  Martelly sought to rally prominent political figures behind him  on Wednesday, meeting with two former presidents in an effort  to encourage reconciliation among past rivals.

(Jamaica Observer) The expansion and modernisation of Jamaica’s oil refinery, Petrojam, appears to have been delayed by at least a further four years.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – The arrival of a Chinese-built  drilling rig set to explore for oil in Cuban waters has been  delayed again and is not expected to reach the island until the  second half of December, sources close to the project said.

(Trinidad Express) People who receive National Insurance pensions, prospective homeowners, the disabled and national security officers are the big winners in Finance Minister Winston Dookeran’s TT$54.6 billion budget which was presented in the new Waterfront Parliament on Monday.

(Jamaica Observer) Andrew Holness yesterday issued a strong rejection of donmanship and garrison politics, saying he has never embraced either, and will not veer from that position regardless of which constituency he will seek to represent in the next general election.

(Trinidad Guardian) Energy Minister Kevin Ramnarine is describing the illegal bunkering of diesel fuel valued at over TT$1.5 billion as economic genocide.

(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Kaloti Jewellery Group, which is headquartered in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates, will assist Suriname in setting up an own mint house.

(Trinidad Express) A 24-year-old Guyanese woman was raped by a lone intruder who forced his way into her Cunupia home during the early hours of Sunday morning.

CARACAS (Reuters) – An unexpected phone call interrupts a Venezuelan government ceremony for local athletes broadcast live on state TV.

(Trinidad Express) A decline in drug trafficking has caused the murder rate to increase in Trinidad and Tobago, according to a recent report from the United Nations.

(Barbados Nation) A dedicated whistleblower hotline for employees to anonymously report white-collar crime and other wrongdoing in their workplaces is about to go live in Barbados.

(Jamaica Observer) Herman Webb is an angry man.The 65-year-old says that Noranda Bauxite Company has been giving him, his neighbours and hundreds of residents in districts neighbouring the community of Stepney in South East St Ann a raw deal.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Three weeks after reports of skin-tone discrimination in Jamaica’s job market hit the fan, the Government’s job placement and training agency – HEART Trust/NTA – has announced that internal investigations have yielded no proof that the agency has ever received requests from employers for light-skinned trainees to fill vacancies at their establishments.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Jiving to rap music and vowing a “thrashing” in Venezuela’s vote exactly a year away, President Hugo Chavez resuscitated a left-wing political coalition yesterday that he hopes will propel him to re-election.