CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday that one of the world’s richest men and owner of a major brewery in the South American country, Lorenzo Mendoza, was planning a US-backed presidential run.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Vatican Foreign Minister Dominque Mamberti will visit Cuba this week at a time when the Catholic church is flexing its political muscle and calling for change on the communist-led island.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian troops have rescued a fourth officer kidnapped by FARC rebels less than a week before an election to succeed President Alvaro Uribe, authorities said yesterday.
NEGRIL, Westmoreland (Jamaica Observer) — Chief Executive Officer of Caribbean Airlines Ian Brunton says he’s confident that the newly formed Trinidad and Tobago government, headed by Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar, should not affect the arrangement between the Jamaican and Trinidad governments in the Air Jamaica deal.
(Jamaica Observer) – The Caribbean Court of Justice will have its first Jamaican on the bench when Professor Charles Winston Anderson is sworn in as judge at King’s House tomorrow.
GENEVA (Reuters) – Israel denounced comments yesterday by former Cuban president Fidel Castro, who compared the Israeli treatment of Palestinians to the Nazi extermination of Jews, an example of heated rhetoric at a UN body’s debate.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez yesterday proposed changing the name of one of the world’s largest oil companies and a major supplier of crude to the United States, Venezuela’s state-run PDVSA, to Socialist Venezuelan Petroleum.
(Trinidad Express) Six days ago, the Integrity Commission forwarded a confidential report to Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard, recommending a criminal probe on former Prime Minister Patrick Manning and former government Minister Hedwige Bereaux.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela said yesterday a preliminary court ruling signaled Exxon Mobil Corp will not win its full compensation claim of $10 billion after President Hugo Chavez nationalized its oil projects in 2007.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Local officials appeared stunned by news out of Port-of-Spain on Thursday that the new Trinidad government, led by Kamla Persad-Bissessar, could be having second thoughts about the takeover of Air Jamaica by the state-owned Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL).
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is offering parents a cure for children who don’t want to go to sleep.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Two UNC financiers, Ishwar Galbaransingh and Steve Ferguson, lost their final battle on Thursday to avoid extradition to Miami, where they face a total of 95 charges relating to the construction of the $1.6 billion Piarco Airport Terminal building.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – A weeping mother has vowed to serve God and never to travel abroad for economic reasons after her son committed suicide on Thursday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Soccer-mad Haitians are revving up to watch the World Cup on large-screen televisions at makeshift camps, their first collective therapy since the devastating January earthquake that killed up to 300,000 people and left more than 1 million homeless.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Amid a major drive by the security forces to neuter gangs and clamp down on violent crime across Jamaica, police statistics indicate that 752 people were killed in the first five months of the year.
(Jamaica Observer) It seems to be a recurring theme: Jamaican artiste barred from entering Caribbean territory.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A massive illegal visa operation conducted out of a modest property on John’s Lane in downtown Kingston was yesterday morning raided by police from the Flying Squad.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Former prime minister Patrick Manning says he is not giving interviews to the media, in wake of reports by architect Stephen Mendes that Manning was personally involved in the commissioning of the controversial Guanapo Church project.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – The security forces pounced on Matthews Lane and satellite streets of downtown Kingston in a predawn raid on Sunday, seizing illegal weapons and detaining hundreds of young men in a major push to weaken the grip of gangs.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela will spend $82 million on a second batch of Chinese K-8 military training aircraft, President Hugo Chavez said on Sunday.
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