BOGOTA, (Reuters) – A car bomb exploded yesterday outside a radio station in Colombia’s capital, wounding nine people and blowing out windows in the first major attack since President Juan Manuel Santos took office last weekend.
SANTA MARTA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Colombian Presi-dent Juan Manuel Santos and Venezuela’s Hugo Chavez restored diplomatic ties yesterday at talks to end the latest dispute between the ideologically opposed Andean neighbours.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – A day after taking office, Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos took a step toward mending Bogota’s frayed ties with Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez by securing a meeting with him in Colombia.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Vicente Fox, the former Mexican president who was a key U.S.
(BBC) Security officials in St Lucia are seeking help from the Regional Security System (RSS) to investigate a break in at the island’s maximum security prison on Sunday.
ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo’s cancer is more advanced than initially thought, but the chemotherapy he will undergo should not affect his ability to do his job, one of his doctors said yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Police investigators in Mandeville, Manchester, on Saturday waded through conflicting information surrounding the murder of former Member of Parliament (MP) Dr Neil McGill.
(Trinidad Express) “Is this the way we have to leave this world?”
(Jamaica Observer) Bruce Golding- led administration is examining the feasibility of a gun amnesty as part of its drive to rid the streets of illegal weapons.
(Trinidad Express) A St Augustine businesswoman turned the tables on two armed robbers after she drew her licensed pump action shotgun and opened fire on the suspects at her mini-mart on Friday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) In just over 10 years, members of the Jamaica Constabulary Force (JCF) fatally shot more than 2,000 civilians in alleged shoot-outs and other confrontations.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s foreign minister will attend the inauguration of Colombia’s incoming president, Juan Manuel Santos, today, signalling a thaw between the Andean neighbours after relations broke over leftist rebels.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Suriname’s Central Bank Governor Andre Telting died yesterday of an apparent heart failure just before he was to relinquish the job due to a change of government in the South American nation.
ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Paraguayan President Fernando Lugo has lymphoma, but an early diagnosis means there is a good chance the cancer can be treated successfully, his doctors said yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados is outlawing smoking in public places from October 1.
(Barbados Nation) Literary giant George Lamming thinks political parties sow seeds of corruption and probably do more harm than good.
(Trinidad Guardian) Angos-tura Holdings, the CL Financial subsidiary, has declared a loss of TT$1.28 billion for 2008 and is unable to produce its audited results for 2009.
(Trinidad Guardian) A man accused of murdering Diane Williams and her eight-year-old son Shaquille escaped the glare of media photographers on Tuesday as police shielded him from the public by transporting him to court in a heavily-tinted unmarked vehicle.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago’s unemployment figure is likely higher than what the current data shows, Central Bank Governor Ewart Williams said on Tuesday.
(Trinidad Express) A woman fainted and children cried on Tuesday, as their parents desperately tried to salvage their belongings which were ravaged by Monday’s flash flooding.
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