(Go Jamaica) The Jamaica government has appealed for urgent international financial assistance in addressing the impact of the global financial crisis, stating that it lacks the resources to provide adequate response according to an article posted on CMC website.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Haiti’s ex-dictator Jean-Claude “Baby Doc” Duvalier says “solidarity” led him to return to his Caribbean homeland where his name is still reviled by many and where he faces claims for retribution from alleged victims.
(BBC) The authorities in Haiti face a critical week or so in deciding who should be involved in the second round of the presidential election.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba is seeking prison terms of up to 14 years for administrators and staff of a mental health hospital where 26 patients died of cold last year in a scandal that showed lapses in the tropical island’s lauded health system.
Thumbs up for economic union Former Grenadian Prime Minister Keith Mitchell says the economic union being pursued by member countries of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) will benefit the people of the sub-region if it is implemented properly.
LIMA (Reuters) – Peru said yesterday it had recognized a Palestinian state, joining a growing number of Latin American countries in making an endorsement the United States has called premature.
(Trinidad Express) There were conflicting reports over the qualifications and appointment of the new spy chief on Friday, with Minister of National Security John Sandy and acting President Timothy Hamel-Smith naming different agencies to which Reshmi Usha Ramnarine was appointed.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Prompted by an escalating global currency war, Brazil is preparing to challenge U.S.
(Barbados Nation) The fields and hills of St John were alive Thursday night with the sound of “Mara, Mara!”.
(Trinidad Guardian) His killing has left relatives shaken and scores of friends in the law enforcement fraternity stupefied.
Minister of Agriculture and Fisheries, Dr Christopher Tufton (left), and Ambassador Marco Mazzocchi Alemanni, head of the European Union delegation to Jamaica, in attendance at the opening ceremony for the Accompanying Measures for former Sugar Protocol Countries regional seminar held at the Ritz-Carlton Rose Hall in Montego Bay, St James, Thursday.
(Jamaica Observer) Parliament will next month begin debate on a Green Paper which is expected to lead to legislation abolishing corporal punishment in all public schools, Education Minister Andrew Holness announced on Wednesday.
(Trinidad Express) Justice Minister Herbert Volney on Wednesday went to court in an attempt to block the annual Water and Sewerage Authority (WASA) Carnival fete.
(Trinidad Guardian) In a notice to shareholders in the press on Tuesday, Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) announced that it had “declared a moratorium on debt service payments (both principal and interest) in order to preserve cash to sustain operations.”
(Jamaica Observer) Canadian outfit, Cemcorp, plans to build a US$340-million, 1.5-million-ton cement plant at Port Esquivel, St Catherine, that will use red mud extracted from waste ponds created by bauxite company — Windalco — to make the clinker.
(Barbados Nation) The sugar industry must be expanded in order to survive.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The label “Made in China” is stirring an ever-greater backlash in Brazil as cheap imports ravage local manufacturers, putting pressure on new President Dilma Rousseff to fight back.
(Trinidad Guardian) Government on Friday tabled legislation to remove obstacles to the death penalty and to allow for the creation of three categories of murder in T&T.
TERESOPOLIS, Brazil, (Reuters) – Rescuers uncovered more corpses buried under mud and wrecked homes in southeastern Brazil yesterday as the death toll from torrential rains and massive floods hit 540 people and looked certain to climb.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Gunmen clashed with police in a running street battle in a slum district of Haiti’s capital yesterday, fueling fears of a resurgence of the election-related violence that hit the poor Caribbean nation last month.
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