Regional News

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).

Cuba to expand use of employee-run cooperatives

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.

BBC Caribbean News in Brief

Arrow flown to Antigua International soca star Alphonsus ‘Arrow’ Cassell has been airlifted to neighbouring Antigua for further medical attention.

BBC Caribbean News in Brief

Arrow flown to Antigua International soca star Alphonsus ‘Arrow’ Cassell has been airlifted to neighbouring Antigua for further medical attention.

Amazon may be headed for another bad drought

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.

Kamla: Hanging is the law

(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.

Every child deserves a laptop – T&T PM

(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.

Fidel Castro has 1st public speech in years

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.

MPs in intense Tobago retreat

(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.

Body representing Jamaica cops flays Gov’t

(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.

The Brazilians are coming — to a store near you

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.

Brazil candidate Rousseff: FARC not our problem

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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