Soca star Arrow dies
(BBC) The man often credited with taking soca global, Arrow, has died after fighting cancer for some time.
(BBC) The man often credited with taking soca global, Arrow, has died after fighting cancer for some time.
Cuba urged to free contractor A senior US official says Cuba’s continued detention of an American contractor is impeding moves by Washington to improve ties with the communist-ruled island.
(Trinidad Express) – Clico, the country’s largest insurer, and its parent, CL Financial, perpetrated an elaborate “Ponzi scheme” on thousands of unsuspecting investors and the people responsible for it should be jailed, Government Senator Patrick Watson has said.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba will lay off more than 500,000 state employees by March and expand private employment to give them work in the biggest shift to the private sector since the 1960s, the Cuban Workers Federation said yesterday.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Polls show Venezuela’s parliamentary election is a tight race between President Hugo Chavez’s allies and his opponents, but Chavez’s rising popularity and favourable election rules may tip the balance.
Race relations concerns British Labour MP Dianne Abbott says cuts being made by the Coalition administration of Prime Minister David Cameron could put back race relations by a generation.
(Trinidad Express) Police officers assigned to an elite unit known as the Repeat Offenders Programme Task Force (ROPTF) are alleged to be in collusion with—and, in some cases, controlled by—gangs in East Port of Spain.
(Barbados Nation) Some pensioners could find themselves penniless as a result of a reported multimillion-dollar plan to salvage personal investments in CLICO International Life Insurance Company (CIL), says former Prime Minister Owen Arthur.
By: TIM SLINGER (Barbados Nation) Police have arrested two young men in connection with the fire-bombing tragedy which claimed the lives of six young women on Friday night two weeks ago at Campus Trendz in Tudor Street, The City.
(Barbados Nation) Thousands of Barbadians on Friday mourned the loss of six lives in last week’s firebombing of a Tudor Street, Bridgetown store.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian police arrested the governor of an Amazon state and 17 other people yesterday on suspicion of running a scheme that siphoned off more than 300 million reais ($175 million) in public funds.
Focus on human rights A United Nations expert says human rights should be at the centre of Haiti’s reconstruction, following the earthquake in January.
LONDON (Reuters) – The British government set out plans to fully privatise postal delivery company Royal Mail, saying yesterday it was essential to attract private capital to ensure the service’s survival.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Fidel Castro said yesterday his recent comment that communist-led Cuba’s economic model does not work was badly understood and that what he really meant was that capitalism does not work.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Forty-five Colombian police, soldiers and guerrilla fighters have been killed over the past week as leftist rebels launch attacks meant to show they are still a threat after an eight-year US-backed security push.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Four Chilean opposition lawmakers yesterday joined a hunger strike by indigenous Mapuche inmates protesting “terror” charges, increasing pressure on the government to talk to the prisoners.
Divergent Caricom views Two former St Lucia Prime Ministers have been giving their views on the choice of a new secretary general of the Caribbean Community (Caricom).
HAVANA (Reuters) – Fidel Castro said Cuba’s economic model no longer works, a US-based journalist reported yesterday following interviews with the former president last week.
(Barbados Nation) – Prime Minister David Thompson battles on at a New York City hospital after a weekend “complication” forced his return there from Barbados and he is focused on getting back to good health.
Higher oil prices help economy In its first national budget presentation, the new Trinidad and Tobago coalition government has said that confidence is returning to the economy.
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