LA REFORMA, Guatemala, (Reuters) – Residents of a poor Guatemalan town have rallied around a family sought by the United States for drug trafficking but respected at home for handing out food, jobs and medicine to people in need.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – South America’s hardline leftist leaders yesterday criticized U.S.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. policy on Honduras’ political crisis is not aimed at supporting any particular individual, the State Department said in a new letter that implied softening support for ousted President Manuel Zelaya.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A United States-registered twin-engine aircraft believed to be on a drug mission to Jamaica crashed on Monday morning on a private road owned by Windalco Bauxite Company in Schwallenburgh district, near the St Ann-St Catherine border, killing its two occupants.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Malaria may have jumped to humans from chimpanzees much as AIDS did, U.S.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said yesterday that the country’s two largest coffee roasters would be nationalized.
(Jamaica Observer) – Gunmen on Sunday morning shot dead a 56-year-old policeman and injured his son, 25, in the parish of Westmoreland.
More criticism of planned
APD increase
The head of the World Travel and Tourism Council (WTTC) said Monday that the planned increase in the UK’s Air Passenger Duty (APD) will hinder efforts to reduce poverty in developing countries.
(Trinidad Express) A soldier who once trained and enlisted as a member of the Trinidad and Tobago Defence Force elite Special Forces Unit has been convicted alongside six others for a series of offences arising out of the kidnapping and murder of US war veteran Balram Maharaj.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government has awarded a contract worth more than TT$2.1 billion to a subsidiary of an Italian company to supply four helicopters for use by the country’s Air Guard, Web sites and wire services have reported.
(Jamaica Gleaner) South Central St Catherine Member of Parliament (MP) Sharon Hay-Webster has decided to give up the land of her birth – the United States of America (USA).
(Barbados Nation) Govern-ment is concerned that landlords are kicking Barbadian tenants from rental homes and converting them into rooms.
(Antigua Sun) – The Royal Police Force of Antigua and Barbuda has renewed efforts to track down the sources of illegal guns entering the country.
(Antigua Sun) – A Guyanese man who faces deportation after pleading guilty to remaining in Antigua after the expiration of a permit has asked the court for time to sell his two cars and house.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Russia and Cuba have signed contracts that “set the bases” for Russian oil company Zarubezhneft to search for oil in Cuba’s part of the Gulf of Mexico, Cuba’s state-run press said on Wednesday.
Turks police continue search
Police in the Turks and Caicos Islands say they are keeping up search and recovery efforts for missing Haitians whose boat sank earlier this week.
(Barbados nation) – There is a backlog of up to 6,000 Caribbean nationals seeking immigrant status in Barbados.
(BBC) – It appears that the protracted dispute between management and pilots of regional carrier LIAT could be resolved soon.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – The U.S. Coast Guard yesterday called off its search for up to 67 Haitian migrants missing from a wooden sailboat that sank off the Turks and Caicos Islands, saying they were presumed lost at sea.
ATLANTA, (Reuters) – About half the U.S. population should get vaccinated against H1N1 influenza but pregnant women and healthcare workers should be at the front of the line, U.S.