SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil wants to forge a common position among all Amazon basin countries for a global climate summit later this year, the country’s president, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, said yesterday.
(BBC) Just how much freedom is allowed on the Internet has been tested in a court case in Dominica, in which a former beauty queen contestant has been awarded substantial damages.
(Barbados Nation) Government is proposing a massive increase in the penalty for breaking immigration laws, from the current Bds$5,000 to a maximum of Bds$50,000.
(Trinidad Express) – Two people have died from the influenza A/H1N1 virus, while another death is still being investigated, Minister of Health Jerry Narace said on Wednesday.
CARACAS (Reuters) – President Hugo Chavez’s government said on Wednesday it was taking control of a landmark hotel mangaged by Hilton on Margarita island in another nationalization by socialist-run Venezuela.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Residents of the normally quiet community of Tower Isle in St Mary awoke to a gruesome discovery on Wednesday.
St Kitts court battle Kittitian Prime Minister Denzil Douglas says an ongoing court battle over proposed constituency boundary changes threatens to undermine the country’s democratic process.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Allen Stanford, the alleged swindler who is being held in solitary confinement in a federal jail, fell ill during a hearing yesterday where a judge denied the U.S.
(Jamaican Observer) Two Jamaican men were slapped with life sentences for the grotesque murder of a Jamaican mother of two, Dorcas Rhule, in a British Virgin Islands (BVI) court last week.
(Barbados Nation) A father of eight was shot and killed by intruders as he closed up at his workplace early Sunday morning.
(Jamaica Observer) Just over 90 per cent of adult Jamaicans surveyed hold the view that a foetus is a human being, a poll conducted by Don Anderson for a pro-life group has found.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda have been bearing the brunt of regional migration.
(Barbados Nation) LIAT (1974) Limited is in line for a US$54 million upgrade of its aircraft fleet.
(Trinidad Express) The State has been forking out an estimated TT$25 million per year to settle hundreds of judicial matters brought by members of the public against police and prisons officers.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Former Cash Plus boss, Carlos Hill, was on Friday slapped with 15 additional fraud charges and could face trial in the Home Circuit Court, where the penalty is more severe.
-influx of Guyanese, Venezuelans seen (Trinidad Express) Chief economist and director of research at the Central Bank Alvin Hilaire has warned that the immigration situation in Trinidad and Tobago could face some serious challenges, given the fact that this country’s economy was still doing better than others in the region, and as such, workers from all over the region could begin flocking here.
…as consumption rises Jamaica Gleaner) Less than two years after Agriculture and Fisheries Minister Dr Christopher Tufton urged Jamaicans to make greater use of cassava, heavy demands for the tuber have sent agro processors scurrying for a duty-free licence.
(Jamaica Observer) Head of the delegation of the European Commission to Jamaica, Ambassador Marco Mazzocchi-Alemanni, Wednesday criticised the Jamaica Social Investment Fund (JSIF) for the long time it is taking to implement a $1.3 billion poverty reduction programme, funded by the EU.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – How stable can a nation like Haiti be, where U.N.
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica on Wednesday received vital advice from one of the leading personalities in the fight against the Italian Mafia, which came amidst reports that the two countries are working together to fight crime here.
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