RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Suspected Brazilian gang members burned cars and buses in Rio de Janeiro yesterday in a fourth day of violence, defying a heavy police presence and raids on slum communities that killed 13 people.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – China is taking another great leap forward in its Latin American energy plans, raising Cuba’s energy importance in the process, with a deal to lead a $6 billion refinery expansion project on the communist island, experts said this week.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Nine workers were killed at two small coal mines in Colombia when gases ignited and caused cave-ins, relief workers and the mining regulator said yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) Barbadians were on Monday administered one of the most bitter doses of economic medicine since the 1991 crisis by new Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler.
(Jamaica Observer) The Child Development Agency (CDA) is attributing the spike in the number of reported cases of abuse to the fact that more Jamaicans are taking their legal responsibility to report seriously, than to an increase in the incidents of child abuse.
(Jamaica Observer) Excel Motors Limited, the only local car manufacturing company in Jamaica, is currently preparing to export three models of its Island Cruiser motor vehicles to the Turks and Caicos Islands.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Impoverished Haiti, long afflicted by political turmoil and natural disasters, will hold presidential and legislative elections on Sunday under the scourge of a deadly cholera epidemic.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Works Minister Jack Warner said on Sunday that San Fernando East Member of Parliament, Patrick Manning, owes the country an apology after trying to “assassinate the character” of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar on Friday in Parliament.
(Trinidad Express) Justice Minister Herbert Volney says his plan to retire from the Judiciary was leaked to the media after it was obtained during a tapped telephone conversation with his wife.
PARIS, (Reuters) – The big surprise with Pope Benedict’s new book is not that he believes the Catholic Church can permit condom use to prevent the spread of AIDS in some circumstances, but that he took so long to say so.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar is offering to sell her Phillipine home to San Fernando East MP Patrick Manning for TT$30 million.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Reports are now surfacing that witnesses are coming out of the woodwork thick and fast to give investigators damning statements against embattled Cabinet minister James Robertson.
(Go Jamaica) Prime Minister Bruce Golding has given instructions for a team of medical and support personnel to be mobilized for deployment to Haiti.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government is seeking to remove five non-executive directors of the eight-member Central Bank board in a move that has raised issues of the independence of the Central Bank, possibilities of conflict of interest and even the legality of the President appointing the new directors before the completion of the terms of existing directors.
(Jamaica Observer) Veteran Reggae singer Gregory Isaacs, was given an emotional send off at a thanksgiving service for his life at the National Indoor Sports Centre in Kingston yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Judiciary of T&T is calling for the destruction of all illegally obtained material gathered by the Security Intelligence Agency (SIA).
(Jamaica Gleaner) David Smith, head of the failed foreign-exchange trading scheme Olint, is in United States custody today after he was handed over to American authorities in the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) on Thursday.
(Trinidad Express) An Iranian national, suspected to be linked with international terrorist organisations, was detained at a house in Arouca on Wednesday.
(Jamaica Observer) Popular dancehall deejay ‘Zebra’ was sentenced to 30 years at hard labour in the St Catherine Circuit Court, yesterday morning.
(Trinidad Express) The daughter of a senior police officer was killed by bandits when she attempted to escape a bar robbery in San Fernando on Tuesday night.
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