CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela rejected yesterday Dutch reassurances that the US military was using the Netherlands’ Caribbean islands only for drug surveillance, accusing it of complicity with a planned US “aggression.”
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez scoffed on Wednesday at US magazine Newsweek‘s predictions that he would be toppled by a military coup and his Cuban mentor Fidel Castro would die in 2010.
NEW YORK/HOUSTON/ BEIJING (Reuters) – Saudi Arabia has quit a long-held lease for 5 million barrels of Caribbean oil storage near the key US market and state giant PetroChina is poised to move in, industry sources say, a potentially major shift in global oil trade dynamics.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez’s government accused the United States yesterday of fomenting violence to undermine the Iranian administration.
(Antigua Sun) – Just days after it was announced that the US Justice Department is investigating contributions made to lawmakers by Allen Stanford, a democratic representative has been listed as one who benefited from the former billionaire at the expense of his clients.
-in attack on drugs-for-guns syndicate (Jamaica Gleaner) Police in St Elizabeth are on the hunt for the sole survivor of a group of five gunmen who engaged lawmen in a shoot-out on Monday.
(Trinidad Express) Crime has forced the Witco Desperadoes to flee their Laventille Hill home after more than 60 years and seek refuge in Belmont, officials of the panside said on Monday.
(Trinidad Express) A message which was posted on Facebook was said to be the reason why three women allegedly beat another before stabbing her multiple times two weeks ago.
(Jamaica Observer) – Seventeen persons were killed over the Christmas weekend, including six on Christmas Day, police reported.
(Trinidad Express) – While the rest of the country celebrated the festive season, two men were murdered on Sunday, bringing the number of people murdered in T&T for 2009 to 500, according to a Sunday Express tally.
Montserrat delays treaty signing Montserrat has said that it will not sign the treaty establishing an economic union of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean states today.
PARAMARIBO (Reuters) – Police and troops on Christmas Day put down a riot and looting rampage in Albina, a Surinamese town bordering French Guiana, in violence which wounded 13 people, a government minister said.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – U.S. federal authorities are investigating millions of dollars contributed by accused fraudster Allen Stanford and his staff to U.S.
(Trinidad Express) Killers, you have reached your mark. While the rest of the country celebrated the festive season, two men were murdered on Saturday, bringing the number of people murdered in T&T for 2009 to 500, according to a Sunday Express tally.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A study on violence and dancehall, led by Dr Donna Hope-Marquis, has found that there is no correlation between the two.
(Trinidad Guardian) United National Congress (UNC) leader Basdeo Panday has been given a major Christmas gift with the political endorsement of most of his Members of Parliament and Senators.
(Trinidiad Express) A $30 million fire in Tobago has left 95 people jobless.
Five injured, 9 missing in ship fire in Caribbean CARACAS (Reuters) – Nine sailors were killed and five were burned in a Christmas Day blaze aboard a Greek freighter in waters off a Venezuelan Caribbean island, the official Venezuelan news agency ABN reported on Friday.
(Trinidad Express) A woman used her body as a shield for her younger brother when gunmen began shooting at him Thursday morning.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Prime Minister Bruce Golding dramatically changed course on Wednesday night as he roundly rescinded the General Consumption Tax (GCT) on a list of items announced by Finance Minister Audley Shaw a week ago.
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