HAVANA (Reuters) – For the first time since the 1959 revolution, Cubans will have the right to buy and sell cars in a much-anticipated reform under President Raul Castro, another step toward greater economic freedom on the communist-led island.
DETROIT (Reuters) – Fresh concerns raised by the largest US labour organization over human rights violations in Colombia are valid, but should not slow down congressional approval of a free trade pact with that country in coming weeks, the US ambassador to Colombia said yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Prime Minister Bruce Golding said he needs time to grieve and has asked that the Jamaican media “bear with me”.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez nationalized a local ferry company on Monday in his latest move to put more of the South American OPEC member’s economy under socialist state control.
(Trinidad Express) Former CL Financial chairman Lawrence Duprey was a visionary whose downfall was that he had “incompetent” managers working under him.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Chairman of the Jamaica Labour Party (JLP), Mike Henry, has revealed that from as early as last week Thursday, Prime Minister Bruce Golding conveyed his decision to step down.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro accused US President Barack Obama of speaking “gibberish” in his recent address to the United Nations and called NATO’s actions in Libya a “monstrous crime” yesterday in his first opinion column since early July.
(Trinidad Guardian) Chicken—mainly leg quarters imported from the United States—is being used as a cover to bring illegal drugs and guns into Trinidad and Tobago.
(Trinidad Express) Days following her United Nations address on women’s political participation and in the midst of a State of Emergency, Kamla Persad-Bissessar agreed to an exclusive interview about her experience and evolution as Prime Minis-ter of Trinidad and Tobago.
(Barbados Nation) More Bajans living abroad may be offered key positions at home.
(Trinidad Express) Even as public hearings into the collapse of financial giant CL Financial continue to reveal a disturbing picture of corporate greed, reckless dealings, dishonesty and misconduct at the highest level of the country’s largest conglomerate, questions remain about the role of the state regulators and auditors on record, PriceWaterhouseCoopers (PWC).
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Wigton Windfarm in Manchester produced enough energy to save the country expenditure estimated at more than $229 million on the importation of oil during the first five months of fiscal year 2011-12, according to data released by the Petroleum Corporation of Jamaica (PCJ).
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela and Iran postponed a visit to Caracas yesterday by Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad as his Venezuelan counterpart Hugo Chavez recovered from a fourth round of cancer treatment, officials said.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez returned home on Thursday saying a fourth and final session of chemotherapy in Cuba had been successful.
(Trinidad Express) – The curfew in the crime hot spot of Longdenville, Chaguanas, failed to stop an attack on a family whose house was broken into by four men who raped a mother and daughter.
(Trinidad Express) – Lawrence Duprey was paid $1.1 billion from the deposits of CLICO policyholders in the five years prior to CL Financial seeking a billion dollar bailout from the government.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – A judge jailed the suspended mayor of Colombia’s capital, Bogota, yesterday while he is on trial on charges he took bribes to award public works contracts.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government said yesterday that vocal US critic Hugo Chavez played an influential behind-the-scenes role in securing the release of two Americans detained in Iran while hiking on the border in 2009.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Amnesty International urged Haiti yesterday to bring former dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier to justice as the human rights group issued a report on killings and torture committed with impunity during his 15-year rule.
(Jamaica Observer) When reputed Jamaican drug lord Christopher ‘Dudus’ coke pleaded guilty last month to reduced charges in a New York court, speculation was rife that he would call names.
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