RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil is expected to join the OPEC+ group of oil-producing countries in January but would not take part in the group’s coordinated output caps, the chief executive of state-run oil firm Petrobras PETR4.SA
WASHINGTON/CARACAS, (Reuters) – Opposition candidates barred from public office in Venezuela will be able to appear before the country’s top tribunal, which will rule on their bans, the country’s government and opposition said in a joint statement late yesterday.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s Trade Minister Federico Alfaro announced his resignation on Thursday days after the country’s top court ruled a contract between the government and Canadian miner First Quantum < FM.TO>
LIMA, (Reuters) – Ex-Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori should be released from prison, a top constitutional court said yesterday after reinstating his pardon for the second time in two years, counter to the rulings of an international court.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele announced yesterday he will formally ask Congress to approve a leave of absence over the next few days to allow him to run for reelection as president of the Central American nation next year.
PANAMA CITY/TORONTO, (Reuters) – For more than a month, a group of 16 fishing boats has been blocking a key port in Panama, choking off coal and essential supplies destined for First Quantum Minerals’ FM.TO
(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines Limited (CAL) has now called for the intervention of Minister of Labour Stephen Mc Clashie, following a breakdown in negotiations with its pilots.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s president said yesterday that Canadian miner First Quantum’s lucrative copper mine Cobre Panama would be shut down, hours after the country’s Supreme Court declared its contract unconstitutional.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Canadian miner First Quantum’s contract to operate a lucrative copper mine in Panama is unconstitutional, Panama’s Supreme Court declared today following weeks of protests against the deal.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Venezuelan politicians, military officials and police were “bought and paid for” by a man on trial on charges of shipping tens of thousands of kilograms of cocaine into the United States, a U.S.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva said yesterday he will appoint his Justice Minister, Flavio Dino, to a Supreme Court seat that has been vacant since the retirement of Justice Rosa Weber in late September.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s embattled president rejected a formal complaint against her filed earlier yesterday by the attorney general, deriding it as “despicable” in brief public remarks, in the latest recriminations over deadly social unrest a year ago.
(Barbados Nation) In an effort to deal more effectively with attorneys stealing from their clients, the Barbados Bar Association has submitted sweeping changes to the Legal Profession Act, which includes a rigorous process of auditing attorney’s client accounts as well as a more rigid disciplinary procedure.