(Trinidad Guardian) After COVID-19 resulted in a near-death experience in 2020, majority state-owned Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) is now seeking to transform its fortunes with ambitious plans for new routes, new aircraft along with the hiring of additional staff.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two of the country’s biggest contractors say they wholeheartedly welcome the full proclamation of the Public Procurement and Disposal of Properties Act.
LISBON, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said yesterday he did not want to “please anyone” with his views about Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, after provoking criticism in the West for suggesting Kyiv shared the blame for the war.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The two Guyanese women who were arrested on April 4 for attempting to smuggle 21 pounds of cocaine out of Jamaica pleaded guilty in the St James Parish Court yesterday and were sentenced to 10 months in prison.
(Jamaica Observer) Thursday’s declaration by Foreign Affairs Minister Kamina Johnson Smith that allegations in a pending court matter of improper treatment of a US$99,000 gift towards her 2022 Commonwealth secretary general bid are ” baseless, untrue and defamatory” have been snubbed by attorney Sophia Bryan.
(Trinidad Express) “Have no fear. I am not going go drop dead tomorrow.”
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile has moved to boost state control over its lithium industry as it seeks to diversify from mining into batteries and other areas, spooking investors in the country’s dominant miners of the white metal, SQM SQMA.SN
(Trinidad Express) Examinations may have to be rescheduled for students at The University of the West Indies (The UWI), St Augustine, this semester as dozens of staff members represented by the West Indies Group of University Teachers (WIGUT) are holding on to exam papers until they receive a remit.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chile’s President Gabriel Boric said yesterday he would nationalize the country’s lithium industry, the world’s second largest producer of the metal essential in electric vehicle batteries, to boost its economy and protect its environment.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov met yesterday with Cuban President Miguel Diaz-Canel and Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez in Havana, the latest in a series of visits to shore up support among Russia’s closest allies in Latin America.
(Trinidad Express) Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard, SC, yesterday said there have been attempts by the Attorney General to interfere in his independent office.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuban lawmakers yesterday easily re-elected Miguel Diaz-Canel as president for a second term as the country faces one of the biggest social and economic crisis since Fidel Castro’s 1959 revolution.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has a crime detection rate of 20 per cent and of that 20 per cent who are charged, 70 per cent are acquitted.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s top national security adviser resigned yesterday, the presidential palace said, amid a scandal related to the aide’s presence during the storming of government buildings in the capital.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskiy is due to address Mexico’s Congress today by video, according to two people familiar with the matter, as he seeks support in his country’s ongoing war with Russia.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – A former vice president of Venezuela’s state oil firm PDVSA was arrested as part of a widening anti-corruption probe looking into wrongdoing at the state company, a government official said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A former Venezuelan treasurer, who also served as an aide to late President Hugo Chavez and was convicted in the U.S.
(Trinidad Express) An Aranguez businessman was shot dead by bandits in a robbery on Tuesday night.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva yesterday condemned the violation of Ukraine’s territorial integrity by Russia and again called for mediation to end the war, a peace initiative that was criticized by the Ukrainian government.
(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has promised to make home invasions a specific “criminal offence”, saying people under attack in their homes should be allowed self-defense under “stand your ground” laws.
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