CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition coalition will consider privatizing companies currently in state hands if they defeat President Hugo Chavez in elections in December 2012, a senior alliance official said.
(Go Jamaica) The Government has indicated that it will be raising with Caricom the issue of the alleged mistreatment of a Jamaican woman by Barbados customs and im-migration officials.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Former US President Jimmy Carter will meet with Cuban President Raul Castro, the leader of Cuba’s Catholic Church and the island’s Jewish community during a Havana visit starting tmorrow amid speculation he will seek the release of a jailed American aid contractor.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police Service Commission chairman Nizam Mohammed says there are too many Africans in the hierarchy of T&T Police Service and he intends to address the issue with assistance from the Parliament.
(Barbados Nation) Immigration and Customs authorities have categorically denied charges by a Jamaican woman that she was finger-raped and thrown out of Barbados when she arrived on the island just over a week ago.
(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Bruce Golding yesterday again denied that Christopher ‘Dudus’ Coke paid the US$50,000 fee to United States law firm Manatt, Phelps & Phillips over the request for his extradition to the US on gun and drug trafficking charges.
(Jamaica Observer) Allegations by a Jamaican woman that she was finger-raped by an immigration officer before being thrown out of Barbados, have brought the spotlight on poor treatment of Jamaicans visiting that eastern Caribbean island.
GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) – Most loving couples hope their marriage will last “until death us do part”.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s former dictator Jean-Claude ‘Baby Doc’ Duvalier, who faces charges of corruption and rights abuses after returning from exile in January, is being treated in a hospital after falling ill, aides said yesterday.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Criss-crossing Venezuela armed with promises of change, opposition leaders are jostling for position to run against President Hugo Chavez, convinced they can end his long rule with a mix of centre-left policies.
Historic charter of rights for Jamaicans In a rare bipartisan vote, Jamaica’s House of Representatives has approved a modern charter of civil, political and social rights.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban revolutionary leader Fidel Castro said yesterday he quit all his official positions when he fell ill in 2006, including head of the ruling Communist Party.
Cabinet member’s son to be extradited The son of a senior Cabinet minister in Bermuda, is to be extradited from the United States to answer to charges of attempted murder.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Capitalism may be to blame for the lack of life on the planet Mars, Venezuela’s socialist President Hugo Chavez said yesterday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The United Nations urged Haitians yesterday to calmly wait for the first results due next week of Sunday’s presidential run-off, saying the earthquake-battered nation’s democratic future was at stake.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela, long accused by the United States of being lax in the fight against drugs, deported six “highly dangerous” suspects yesterday and said the move showed its commitment to combatting organized crime.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haitians voted in large numbers yesterday to elect a president for their earthquake-scarred country, choosing between a singer and a former first lady in a generally peaceful run-off.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama said yesterday that Brazil’s emergence as a powerful democracy was an example other nations could follow, as young people in the Middle East and north Africa rebelled for greater freedom.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Former President Jean-Bertrand Aristide made a triumphant homecoming to Haiti yesterday after seven years of exile, returning despite U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) There is turbulence once again at Caribbean Airlines and there may soon be vomiting in the cockpit of the state-owned carrier.
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