TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran police discovered a Mexican-run cocaine lab yesterday, the first ever found in the Central American country, in a sign Colombian-dominated production of the drug is moving north.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentine economists vow to resist a government crackdown on their independent inflation estimates and accuse President Cristina Fernandez of trying to silence critics before October’s election.
(Trinidad Guardian) After delivering what many fans consider to be his best performance of the season Machel Montano claimed the two million dollar grand prize in the Power Soca category at the 2011 International Soca Monarch Competition at the Hasley Crawford Stadium on Friday night.
(Trinidad Express) The laptop stolen from the Cascade home of local novelist Earl Lovelace is of more value in his hands than in the hands of the person who took it, the author said on Friday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The police are warning that they will take action against residents of Tivoli Gardens in West Kingston if they continue to attack cops on patrol in the community.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Justice Minister and Attorney General Dorothy Lightbourne on Thursday conceded that last year’s public outcry forced her to sign the extradition request for former Tivoli Gardens strongman Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.
(Jamaica Observer) The island’s 44 resident magistrates stayed off the job on Thursday in a rare protest against working conditions, including security, and remuneration.
(Jamaica Observer) Agriculture Minister Christopher Tufton says 45 per cent of the food imports can be replaced with local produce, which he said would lessen the country’s vulnerability and dependence on imports given the global concerns about food safety.
(Go Jamaica) The Sugar Association of the Caribbean says Jamaica led sugar production in the region in January this year with 22,872 tonnes.
(Trinidad Guardian) Visham Babwah, the president of the T&T Automotive Dealers’ Association (TTADA), which is the body representing foreign used car dealers, is accusing Philip Knaggs, President, Auto-motive Dealers Association of T&T of talking “rubbish.”
(Jamaica Observer) Former Jamaica Labour Party (JLP) General Secretary Karl Samuda on Wednesday denied that there was a plot by the party to block the extradition request of Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Brazilian court yesterday lifted an order that suspended construction of the massive Belo Monte hydroelectric plant in the Amazon rain forest, a project expected to face barrage of lawsuits by environmental critics.
(Trinidad Express) Public servants defied the police and risked arrest on Tuesday, when they formed a human barricade at the public entrance of the Central Bank of Trinidad and Tobago (CBTT) and later converged near the Parliament’s entrance at the Red House, even as the government announced its final offer to the union for the settlement of terms and conditions of employment for the period 2008-2010.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has written a letter to the late Daniel Guerra, telling him his death will lead to a rebirth of the nation of Trinidad & Tobago.
(BBC) Cuba’s plans to lay off half a million state workers by the end of March are behind schedule, President Raul Castro has acknowledged.
(Trinidad Express) By a vote of 29 for/11 against, the “hanging bill” was guillotined in the House of Representatives on Monday, as it failed to secure the requisite support from the Opposition PNM to become law.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica Public Service Company (JPS) has signed a US$60.5-million loan agreement with the French Development Finance Institution (PROPARCO) to help reduce electricity theft and construct a 6 MW hydroelectric power plant on the island.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff announced yesterday an increase of nearly a fifth on financial aid under a flagship social welfare program, after implementing a series of austerity measures in recent weeks.
HOLGUIN, Cuba (Reuters) – The Cuban Communist Party has moved forward the election of new leadership to a congress in April where longtime party leader Fidel Castro is expected to step down, sources close to the party said over the weekend.
(Jamaica Observer) In 2007, two years after its creation, Caribbean Genetics (CARIGEN) burst into the public spotlight with research suggesting that more than 30 per cent of Jamaican men were not the biological fathers of their children.
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