CARACAS (Reuters) – A Venezuelan opposition leader was cleared by an international court yesterday to run against President Hugo Chavez in 2012, a ruling sure to heat up the race to lead Latin America‘s top oil exporting country.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haitian lawmakers approved the nomination of a UN development expert to serve as prime minister on Friday, handing President Michel Martelly a tentative victory in his third attempt to install a new head of government in the earthquake-ravaged Caribbean nation.
(Barbados Nation) Barbadians poor work ethic may be the biggest impediment to doing business successfully here.
(TrinidadGuardian) Hours before she said final goodbyes to her parents who died in a tragic murder/suicide in Couva, 20-year-old Anita Balkaran was detained by Chaguanas Police on Tuesday night because she had no official documents to live inTrinidad.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haitian police firing tear gas clashed on yesterday with demonstrators who demanded the withdrawal of UN peacekeepers in a protest against the alleged rape of a man by a group of Uruguayan marines.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s 2012 presidential election campaign was unofficially underway yesterday, with President Hugo Chavez and his foes rallying supporters and predicting victory in the South American OPEC member.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba said yesterday it refused to let former New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson see jailed American Alan Gross during a recent visit to the island because it was irked at some of his actions.
(Trinidad Express) – Eleven new areas in addition to the country’s maritime boundary have been deemed “hot spots”, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has said.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s presidential vote will be held on Oct.
(Jamaica Gleaner) As anger boils in Jamaica over reports of colour prejudice in the job market, a livid labour and social security minister, Pearnel Charles, has likened the skin-tone discrimination to apartheid South Africa and has vowed to drag bigoted employers before the courts.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil is close to creating a Truth Commission to investigate abuses committed during its 1964-1985 military dictatorship, ending a 26-year taboo on delving deeply into the period but falling short of calls for human rights abusers to face justice.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Former Argentine President Carlos Menem was acquitted yesterday of smuggling arms to Croatia and Ecuador in the 1990s during a 10-year presidency remembered for free-market reforms and corruption.
(Jamaica Gleaner) It appears that there is a major problem at the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (Petrojam).
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago now rivals Jamaica as the most violent country in the Caribbean, with the number of annual murders rising sharply from 98 to 550 over the last decade, with some areas in the Port of Spain police division being listed among the most dangerous in the world.
(Trinidad Guardian) Regional Securities and Exchange Commission heads (SEC) are said to be working on a common policy to govern the way takeovers and acquisitions of companies within CARICOM are done says local SEC chairman Deborah Thomas-Felix.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A hundred and seventy-seven years after slavery was abolished in the British West Indies, Jamaica’s national training agency – HEART Trust – still has to deal with colour-prejudiced employers who are requesting that trainees be brown or light-skinned as a prerequisite for employment in their firms.
(Jamaica Observer) A lawsuit aimed at busting the Jamaica Public Service’s (JPS) monopoly on islandwide light and power distribution was filed Friday in the Supreme Court.
(Trinidad Express) A 31-year-old San Juan man, who is paralysed from the waist down, was chopped to death at his home on Thursday after he reportedly arranged to have a fellow resident beaten and robbed as he attempted to purchase drugs from him.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T has been given high marks for the management of its resources by Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz.
(Jamaica Observer) The commerce ministry has committed J$100 million over the next three years towards the furniture industry, which aims to claw back some share of the multi-million dollar sector overwhelmingly dominated by imports.
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