KINGSTON (Reuters) – A would-be hijacker surrendered to the authorities yesterday after releasing the last of more than 180 hostages he seized hours earlier aboard a Canadian charter jet in Montego Bay, Jamaica.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Former Cuban leader Fidel Castro said on Sunday the US trade embargo against Cuba must go, but he was mum on his brother Raul Castro’s recent offer to talk with Washington about “everything,” including political prisoners and human rights.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s top opposition leader is seeking asylum abroad and will not appear in court to face corruption charges brought by President Hugo Chavez’s government, opposition officials said yesterday.
Tourism ministers meet Tourism Ministers of the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are meeting in St Vincent this week to discuss initiatives to improve the industry’s performance.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Allen Stanford, the Texas financier facing civil charges for a massive fraud, has asked a judge to unfreeze at least $10 million in assets to allow him to pay his defense attorneys, according to court documents filed on Sunday.
LIBREVILLE, (Reuters) – African nations must stop signing away their natural resources in skewed deals with foreign firms, the African winner of the 2009 “Green Nobel” prize, said in an interview.
NICOSIA, (Reuters) – Turkish Cypriot hardliners swept to victory in parliamentary elections in northern Cyprus yesterday in a result that could hamper peace talks with Greek Cypriots essential to Turkey’s EU membership ambitions.
ALEXANDRIA, Egypt, (Reuters) – High on a hill overlooking the Mediterranean Sea, buried deep under the crumbling limestone of a temple to the goddess Isis, archaeologists believe the body of Queen Cleopatra may lie.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – ANC leader Jacob Zuma, boosted by the support of Nelson Mandela at a final election rally, dismissed accusations his ruling party planned to change South Africa’s constitution and appealed for national unity.
PORT OF SPAIN (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Hugo Chavez said yesterday he had proposed a former foreign minister as his ambassador to Washington in a move toward restoring normal ties with the United States.
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Pirates seized a US-owned and Italian-flagged tugboat with 16 crew yesterday in the latest hijacking in the busy Gulf of Aden waterway, a regional maritime group said.
Washington (Miami Herald) – Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said on Wednesday that the Obama administration is reviewing a US policy of deporting undocumented Haitians and left open the possibility of expanding travel to Havana beyond the families of Cuban exiles in the United States.
LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian security forces thwarted an assassination plot against President Evo Morales yesterday, killing three people in a half-hour shootout at a hotel, government and police officials said.
(Barbados Nation) – There is an unofficial fishing agreement between Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s popular President Alvaro Uribe moved closer being allowed to run for a third term next year when a Senate committee approved a bill late on Wednesday aimed at clearing the way for a 2010 campaign.
CARACAS (Reuters) – A Venezuelan prosecutor is seeking to freeze the assets of a top opposition leader who is in hiding following corruption charges by the government of leftist President Hugo Chavez, the government said yesterday.
…as summit approaches (Trinidad Express) Business and consumer spending has stalled in Port of Spain during the past week, and now there are fears of million-dollar losses on the opening day of the Fifth Summit of the Americas tomorrow.
(Trinidad Express) – Seeta Singh, 20, fears that police may not be able to protect her from a gang of men who shot her and burnt her children to death on Tuesday.
(Trinidad Express) – Summit officials along with accredited delegates and media were forced to evacuate the National Secretariat’s headquarters, at the new International Waterfront Centre, when a fire alarm was triggered by generators, following a power outage at the building yesterday.
(Antigua Sun) – A new airline is set to begin servicing Montserrat in the near future in order to further stimulate the island’s economic growth.
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