MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s president confirmed for the first time yesterday that his government monitored the phone of a human rights activist, stressing it was a lawful part of a probe into a suspected gang member.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – At least 13 people were killed in clashes with police just outside Brazil’s seaside city of Rio de Janeiro after a raid to arrest a gang leader, police said yesterday, marking another bloody episode in the sprawling metro area.
(Reuters) – The United States has designated one former and two current Paraguayan officials for what Washington said was their involvement in “significant corruption,” making the officials and their families ineligible for entry into the North American country.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Keith Rowley says it couldn’t be further from the truth that he’s trying to get rid of the DPP.
(Trinidad Express) Pleasantville taxi-driver Anthony Andrews was well loved by his family and the residents in his community in which he spent most of his life.
(Trinidad Express) A woman who placed a red rose in the coffin of Tortuga gardener Ganesh Deopersad at his funeral was detained by police as investigations continue into his killing.
TAIPEI, (Reuters) – Taiwan sees China’s involvement in Honduras’ decision to seek to end relations with the island as very obvious and the situation does not look good with Honduras demanding a “high price”, the island’s foreign minister said yesterday.
LIMA, (Reuters) – The heavy rains that recently struck Peru have racked up at least $323 million in infrastructure damage, a senior minister said yesterday, as residents of hard-hit areas turn their focus on repairing water-logged homes and businesses.
BOSTON, (Reuters) – A former mayor of a rural town in Haiti was arrested on U.S.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – More than a quarter of business leaders traveling to China with President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva next week come from Brazil’s booming meat industry, highlighting the high stakes for a sector reliant on Chinese demand for the bulk of its exports.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police yesterday launched an operation to dismantle a criminal gang that plotted to carry out deadly attacks against police officials and public servants, the Minister of Justice Flavio Dino and other authorities said.
(Trinidad Guardian) While homicide detectives are yet to establish a motive for the murder of Couva mother, Natasha Moonasar, they suspect that someone ordered a hit on her life.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday named the head of state oil company PDVSA, Pedro Rafael Tellechea, as the new oil minister, a day after his predecessor resigned amid an extensive corruption investigation focused on the company.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil has ousted almost all illegal gold miners from the Yanomami territory, its largest indigenous reservation, and will remove miners from six more reserves this year, the head of the federal police’s new environmental crimes division said yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s ruling party-controlled National Assembly unanimously revoked a legislator’s immunity from prosecution yesterday, amid a widespread corruption scandal.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state-run oil company PDVSA has accumulated $21.2 billion in accounts receivable, according to documents viewed by Reuters, after turning to dozens of little known intermediaries three years ago to export its oil under U.S.
(Trinidad Express) It is time to modernise the Presidency to allow for greater use of its facilities for the benefit of the public and for greater accessibility by the people.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad Cement Ltd (TCL) yesterday confirmed that it will retrench 70 per cent of the workforce at its wholly owned Barbados-based subsidiary, Arawak Cement Company.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro yesterday accepted the resignation of the country’s powerful oil minister following the detention of at least six high level officials amid a corruption probe focused on state-run company PDVSA and the judiciary.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s environmental regulator Ibama has asked oil company Petrobras PETR4.SA
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