Barbados’ reputation at risk
(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ reputation as a safe tourist destination is being compromised, says the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI).
(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ reputation as a safe tourist destination is being compromised, says the Barbados Chamber of Commerce and Industry (BCCI).
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba will soon turn some small-scale manufacturing and retail services into cooperatives as the state retreats from minor businesses in an effort to boost the island’s troubled economy, government and Communist Party sources said.
Arrow flown to Antigua International soca star Alphonsus ‘Arrow’ Cassell has been airlifted to neighbouring Antigua for further medical attention.
Arrow flown to Antigua International soca star Alphonsus ‘Arrow’ Cassell has been airlifted to neighbouring Antigua for further medical attention.
(Barbados Nation) Barbadians, in national shock and disbelief, on Saturday called on the authorities to bring back hanging.
(Barbados Nation) In a passionate appeal, police public relations officer Inspector David Welch on Saturday night urged all Barbadians to do everything in their power to bring the perpetrators to justice.
-3 Venezuelans, 1 Guyanese (Trinidad Guardian) The T&T Coast Guard Search and Rescue team rescued three Venezuelans and one Guyanese who had been adrift at sea for almost two days.
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – A landslide on one of Guatemala’s major highways buried a bus yesterday, killing at least nine people and injuring around 25 more, emergency workers said.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has approved a $690 million payment to French retailer Casino and other owners of a supermarket chain nationalized earlier this year, state media said yesterday.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Drought has cut Peru’s Amazon River to its lowest level in 40 years and it is already below the minimum set in 2005, when a devastating dry spell damaged vast swaths of South American rainforest in the worst drought in decades.
(Trinidad Express) The death penalty by hanging is the law of the land and the People’s Partnership Government will abide by that law, Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar said on Thursday.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Thursday defended Government’s position to distribute laptops to Form One students, saying this is the modern age and every child deserves a computer.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro, wearing his green military cap and clothing like the comandante of old, made his first speech before the Cuban public on Friday since falling ill in 2006, warning of the threat of nuclear war.
(Trinidad Guardian) Dr Aubrey Armstrong, a former senior Guyanese public servant, on Thursday led Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar and her parliamentary team in intense discussions as a four-day retreat began in Tobago.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The head of the body representing rank-and-file police personnel across the island has accused the Government of “blatant corruption” and support of criminals at the expense of those tasked with enforcing the law.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines Ralph Gonsalves is accusing two US businessmen of engaging in a smear campaign to destabilise his Government.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Chairman of the Electoral Commission of Jamaica (ECJ), Professor Errol Miller on Wednesday announced the start of an active process to flesh out legislation aimed at governing campaign financing.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The resignation of prominent businessman James Moss-Solomon from public-sector boards, in protest over a perceived failure of both Government and Opposition to give strong, effective leadership, has been met with a difference of opinion from a prominent state board chairman.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The chattering line of Brazilians, many straining under the weight of their duty-free bags, stretched back hundreds of feet after a recent Monday night flight from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil will step up air surveillance along its border with Colombia but has no plans to mediate peace talks with its neighbour’s Marxist rebels, presidential front-runner Dilma Rousseff said yesterday.
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