(Barbados Nation) Nearly 70 000 Barbadians have filed their income tax returns electronically and, according to Inland Revenue senior inspector Neville Clarke, the system has proved to be a success with seven in every ten working Barbadians completing their forms on the computer.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Revelations of a surge in the personal wealth of the Brazilian government’s influential chief of staff seem unlikely to cost him his job but could drag on and become a major headache for President Dilma Rousseff.
(Trinidad Guardian) For the past decade, intelligence units have been gathering information on the expansion of the Chinese Triad, a highly organised criminal unit which has spread its tentacles throughout the Caribbean.
(Trinidad Express) “Mr Patrick Augustus Mervyn Manning is accordingly suspended from the service of this House with immediate effect,” declared House Speaker Wade Mark on Monday night.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil will take new steps to protect local industries from a strong exchange rate, including an investigation of Chinese imports that come in improperly through other countries, its trade minister told Reuters yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) Energy company BHP Billiton announced on Thursday it has produced first gas from the Angostura Gas Project offshore Trinidad and Tobago.
(Barbados Nation) Reverend Guy Hewitt has been fired by the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC).
(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Bruce Golding on Tuesday announced that 10,000 jobs will be slashed from the public sector over the next five years under a rationalisation programme that will save the country between J$40 billion and J$50 billion over the period and improve efficiency and productivity.
(Trinidad Express) Fired government senator and minister Mary King wants an independent investigation to be conducted on her behalf.
(Trinidad Express) The appointment of Trinidad Government Senator and Minister of Planning, Restructuring and Gender Affairs, Mary King was to be revoked by President Maxwell Richards yesterday afternoon.
(Jamaica Observer) Sistren Theatre Collective — a non-governmental organisation (NGO) which uses the performing arts to help improve the lives of inner-city residents — said its programmes are often seriously impacted by violence in some of these communities.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – A Guatemalan court dismissed charges against former President Alfonso Portillo of embezzling public funds, ordering his immediate release on Monday but requiring him to stay in the country.
(Trinidad Guardian) Immigration officials have begun hunting down illegal Chinese nationals who have come into T&T to “slave” in thriving casinos, Chinese supermarkets, restaurants and private members’ clubs.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Colombia extradited one of the world’s most wanted suspected drug lords to his native Venezuela yesterday in another sign of warming relations between the Andean neighbours after years of acrimony.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica is losing important artefacts to the scrap-metal trade.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Presi-dent Rafael Correa vowed a shake-up of Ecuador’s courts after a referendum strengthened his grip on the South American OPEC member nation while heightening foes’ fears of autocratic rule.
(Barbados Nation) A backlog of about 15 000 unprocessed immigrant applications has returned to haunt Government and the country’s health care system, says Minister of Health Donville Inniss.
(Trinidad Express) Almost a year after it inherited an agreement to repay thousands of CLICO policyholders more than TT$1 billion they invested in the failed insurance giant, the People’s Partner-ship Government is now close to a decision about ending its commitment.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez’s government said yesterday its neighbour Colombia would deport a Venezuelan drug lord to his homeland “within hours” in a snub to a U.S.
(Jamaica Observer) A British man who was involved in a fight with a female passenger onboard a Virgin Atlantic flight on Monday was slapped with J$150,000 (roughly £1,071) in fines after he pleaded guilty to the charges against him in the Corporate Area Resident Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
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