Regional News

Chavez forges socialist economy with laws offensive

CARACAS, (Reuters) – An avalanche of laws being  written to regulate business and promote “Marxist trade” in  Venezuela marks a new push by President Hugo Chavez to build a  socialist economy in the shopping-mad oil-exporting nation.

DNA, fingerprint tests for cops in station drug/arms find

(Trinidad Express) The 38 transferred police officers who were once stationed at the St Joseph Police Station will have to undergo a series of DNA and fingerprint tests to ascertain whether they were involved in planting a cache of arms, ammunition and drugs in the station’s ceiling.

Brazil scandal draws in Lula’s chosen successor

RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The expected ruling  party candidate in Brazil’s 2010 presidential election has been  drawn into a scandal by an accusation that she tried to stop a  probe into the finances of the Senate chief’s family.

Taped interrogations soon for Barbados

(Barbados Nation) Attorney-General Freundel Stuart will soon be entering discussions with the Royal Barbados Police Force to get interrogation rooms equipped for tape recordings started.

Colombia hands over captured Ecuador troops

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Colombia yesterday released 11  Ecuadorean troops a day after they were seized in Colombian  territory at a time of heightened tensions between the Andean  neighbors, authorities from both countries said.

Honduras snubs OAS leader, cancels visit

TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – The de facto rulers of  Honduras snubbed the head of the Organization of American  States yesterday and cancelled a planned visit for talks on the  crisis caused by a coup in June.

Bill Clinton to lead investor mission to Haiti

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Former U.S. President Bill Clinton  said yesterday he would lead an international trade mission of  private investors to Haiti in October to pursue energy and  other development amid signs the nation is stabilizing.

US ratings downgrade for CLICO

(Trinidad Express) Beleaguered Port of Spain insurance giant CLICO has had its financial strength downgraded by a prominent United States ratings agency.

Lottery scam clampdown leads to arrests

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Five persons including a female, said to be the sister of St Elizabeth’s most-wanted man, were taken into custody following clampdown operations against an illegal lottery scam in Warminster and Leeds district.

BBC Caribbean News in Brief

Cheaper drugs under Clinton deal HIV patients in developing countries could get cheaper drugs under agreements signed between former US President Bill Clinton’s foundation and two drug companies.

Britain to extradite trafficking suspect to Trinidad

(Trinidad Express) – The British Foreign and Commonwealth Office has agreed to extradite a Trinidadian man wanted in this country for drug trafficking after being given the assurance by the State that the prisoner will not be confined to inhumane prison conditions.

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