PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) – Commonwealth nations representing one-third of the world’s population threw their weight behind accelerating efforts to clinch an “operationally binding” UN climate deal in Copenhagen next month, their leaders said yesterday.
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) – Commonwealth countries representing more than a quarter of the world’s population launched a diplomatic push yesterday to drum up momentum for a comprehensive UN climate deal in 10 days’ time.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – The political party of former president Jean-Bertrand Aristide will be barred from legislative elections scheduled for Feb.
(BBC) – The Vincentian government suffered a major defeat on Wednesday, in its bid introduce a new constitution for the country.
MANAUS, Brazil (Reuters) – Brazil will not recognize the winner of this weekend’s election in Honduras as a legitimate president, Brazilian Foreign Minister Celso Amorim said yesterday, setting the stage for a potential showdown with Washington.
ACP group demands compensation A deal to end Europe’s long-running trade war over taxes on banana imports might not come before World Trade Organisation talks in Switzerland next week.
OSLO (Reuters) – The United Nations welcomed on Wednesday a plan by US President Barack Obama to attend a UN climate meeting in Copenhagen next month and urged rich nations to promise deeper cuts in greenhouse gas emissions.
AMPATUAN, Philippines (Reuters) – Philippine security forces found 11 more bodies yesterday at the site of an election-related massacre in the south of the country, taking the toll to 57 dead, officials said.
Vincentians vote in referendum Vincentians voted yesterday on whether to adopt a new constitution.
(Antigua Sun) American rap star P. Diddy has received an extravagant birthday present from Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer it has been reported.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cubans are scrambling to turn off lights and appliances and children are going door to door reminding them to do just that under a government threat of dreaded blackouts if energy consumption is not reduced through the end of the year.
Jamaica says it won’t default Jamaica’s Prime Minister, Bruce Golding, has fended off suggestions that the island might default on its debt repayments.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – At least one, and maybe more, of the young girls reported missing under the Ananda Alert system are in St Catherine, working as prostitutes on the Port Henderson strip, better known as ‘Back Road’.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad arrived in Brasilia yesterday seeking support for his controversial nuclear programme, the first leg of a South American tour that critics say could dent Brazil’s ambitions on the global diplomatic stage.
(BVI Daily News) – A man who fathered a child with a minor and pleaded not guilty to the offence of having sex with a girl under the age of 16 will stand trial today in the High Court.
Democracy ‘health check’ needed A report published yesterday says that many Commonwealth countries have failed to encourage open political competition.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia will not be provoked into armed conflict with Venezuela despite the neighboring country’s aggressive rhetoric and its dynamiting of two cross-border pedestrian bridges, Colom-bia’s defense minister said yesterday.
(Antigua Sun) – The 24-year-old Guyanese man who was convicted last month for uttering false documents to immigration officials is expected to be jointly charged with a Guyanese woman believed to be an accomplice.
Nine million added to poverty list The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says an additional nine million people have sunk into poverty this year.
(Trinidad Express) – Crime Stoppers International launched the Caribbean’s Most Wanted website on Tuesday night.
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