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By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | 0 Comments
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Police in Rio de Janeiro could get 100 million reais ($58.3 million) from Brazil’s federal government to bolster the force …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Controversial dancehall entertainer Bounty Killer has found himself in another run-in with the law. The deejay was charged with possession of ganja …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 20, 2009 | 0 Comments
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazil wants to forge a common position among all Amazon basin countries for a global climate summit later this year, the …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 17, 2009 | 0 Comments
(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 …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 17, 2009 | 6 Comments
(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.
And it …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 16, 2009 | 0 Comments
(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 …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 16, 2009 | 0 Comments
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 …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 16, 2009 | 0 Comments
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Residents of the normally quiet community of Tower Isle in St Mary awoke to a gruesome discovery on Wednesday.
Three persons were dead …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, October 16, 2009 | 0 Comments
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.
He …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, October 15, 2009 | 0 Comments
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Allen Stanford, the alleged swindler who is being held in solitary confinement in a federal jail, fell ill during a hearing yesterday …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
(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 …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 | 15 Comments
(Barbados Nation) A father of eight was shot and killed by intruders as he closed up at his workplace early Sunday morning.
This latest incident involves …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 | 5 Comments
(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 …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, October 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
(Barbados Nation) Barbados and Antigua and Barbuda have been bearing the brunt of regional migration.
And Prime Minister Baldwin Spencer of Antigua and Barbuda has called …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, October 12, 2009 | 2 Comments
(Barbados Nation) LIAT (1974) Limited is in line for a US$54 million upgrade of its aircraft fleet.
According to Prime Minister Dr Ralph Gonsalves of St …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, October 12, 2009 | 0 Comments
(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 …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, October 11, 2009 | 0 Comments
(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 …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 10, 2009 | 0 Comments
-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 …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 10, 2009 | 3 Comments
…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 …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, October 10, 2009 | 1 Comment
(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 …
