DENVER (Reuters) – A Colorado grand jury has indicted 23 people allegedly linked to the Los Zetas drug cartel in connection with a ring that prosecutors said yesterday smuggled $36 million worth of marijuana from Mexico in bogus tour buses.
LONDON (Reuters) – WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange will begin his appeal today against his extradition from Britain to Sweden for questioning over allegations of sexual misconduct.
(Trinidad Express) A Guyanese woman was burnt to death on Friday night after she was trapped in her house.
(Barbados Nation) Cuban-trained doctors are just not up to scratch for Barbados’ medical requirements, says the Barbados Association of Medical Practitioners (BAMP).
(Trinidad Express) Lisa McKenzie, widow of deceased popular bar owner, Ricardo McKenzie, on Thursday confirmed she will be taking legal action against the Brian Lara Cancer Treatment Centre (BLCTC), where she claimed her late husband was a victim of over-radiation during treatment.
(BBC) A Jamaican lesbian has won the right to stay in the UK after immigration judges ruled she risks persecution if she returns to her home country.
(Barbados Nation) There are not enough cows in Barbados and there is a definite need for more, says president of the Barbados Dairy and Beef Producers Association, Paul Davis.
(Trinidad Express) Two hundred and twenty-three cancer patients were administered overdoses of radiation during treatment over the period of a year at the Brian Lara Cancer Treatment Centre in Port of Spain.
(Trinidad Express) State carrier Caribbean Airlines has officially launched its service from Port of Spain to Orlando, Florida.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s convalescing President Hugo Chavez dismissed rumours of a reshuffle yesterday and kept all his ministers in their jobs, thanking them for their work while he underwent cancer surgery in Cuba.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – A century ago, it was the explorers and infantrymen of Europe’s great powers slugging it out for slices of Africa.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s transport minister yesterday became the latest top official to quit because of corruption allegations, adding to the recent struggles of President Dilma Rousseff’s six-month-old government.
(Barbados Nation) Regional neighbours are slamming doors on many Barbadian-made products.
(Jamaica Observer) persons are now behind bars after the St James Police seized about 2,000 pounds of compressed ganja in Irwin district in the parish on Tuesday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Thick black smoke formed a canvas over sections of the Trincity Industrial Estate on Tuesday as a fire flattened Lots 31 and 32 of manufacturing company Thermoplas Limited, located on Tissue Drive.
MANAUS, Brazil, (Reuters) – Thirty years after he first visited Brazil’s Amazon to observe natural gas seeps, geologist Marcio Mello is back to fulfill what he gleefully calls his “destiny” — to lead a rush for the region’s oil.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has stated that the Caricom heads of Government, at their meeting over the weekend in St Kitts, have agreed in principle to waive immunity from cocaine prosecution for individuals at the Caricom Implementation Agency for Crime and Security (Impacs).
(Jamaica Observer) ROMAN Catholic priest Monsignor Gregory Ramkissoon has issued a call for wealthy Jamaicans to give more of their resources and time to the country’s vulnerable, poor and the youth in the face of overwhelming need.
(Trinidad Guardian) Lured by high interest rates, shareholders who invested in the Hindu Credit Union (HCU) went from prosperity to poverty, after HCU’s funds had dried up in June 2008.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ever-theatrical President Hugo Chavez made a surprise homecoming yesterday after cancer surgery in Cuba, thrilling supporters with an emotional pledge to win the fight to regain his health.
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