CUCUTA, Colombia (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Outside a church in the Colombian border city of Cucuta, Martha Carbajalino flips nervously through a pile of papers in her hands, standing with dozens of other migrant Venezuelan parents hoping to enroll their undocumented children into school.
(Barbados Nation) Caribbean governments are being encouraged to revisit the level of taxation on airline tickets.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brazilian authorities and aid groups are rushing to help tens of thousands of Venezuelan refugees before the start of the rainy season in northern Roraima state this month, even as government leaders clash over a request to close the border.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Protests in Nicaragua over changes to social security have led to the deaths of at least three people, including a police officer, the Red Cross said yesterday, heaping pressure on the leftist government of President Daniel Ortega.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Half of the nations belonging to Unasur, a South American bloc set up a decade ago to counter U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) A Waterloo mother was almost killed in a brutal cutlass attack, allegedly at the hands of her 15-year-old son, whom she scolded about his school work.
(Trinidad Guardian) Paul Rajcoomar, 41, was an exemplar security guard and in no way was his killing connected to him carrying out his duties.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s new president, Miguel Diaz-Canel, began his term yesterday with a promise to defend the socialist revolution led by the Castro brothers since 1959, giving a sober speech that also emphasized the need to modernize the island’s economy.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Kingston pastor facing criminal charges for allegedly having sex with a 12-year-old girl and impregnating her has reportedly requested a second paternity test.
(Barbados Nation) Three Caribbean airlines have formed an alliance which promises to make it easier and cheaper for travellers to move between 32 countries.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government has suffered a setback in its prosecution of a corruption lawsuit against former Housing Development Corporation (HDC) officials, two State officials and two private companies over a $175 million land deal.
(Trinidad Guardian) A sense of “relief” descended on the Caribbean community in Britain yesterday when British Prime Minister Theresa May apologised to Caribbean leaders over the treatment of members of the so-called “Windrush Generation,” who have been threatened with deportation after decades of living in the United Kingdom in what was a significant about turn on a decision by the British government to deport descendants of members of the Windrush Generation who are deemed illegal immigrants.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Chauffeured around in a sleek black pick-up, the head of Venezuela’s oil industry, Major General Manuel Quevedo, last month toured a joint venture with U.S.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A decision looming before Brazil’s Supreme Court could free imprisoned former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva within days and deal the harshest blow yet to the South American country’s battle against corruption, prosecutors and judges say.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba said on Monday it was bringing forward the start of the national assembly session where a new president to succeed Raul Castro will be selected and it will last two days.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalans on Sunday voted to ask the top United Nations court to resolve its claim that it owns half the territory of its neighbor Belize, a dispute that dates back to Spanish and British colonial rule of the region.
(Barbados Nation) The usual hustle and bustle of a Saturday afternoon in Bridgetown came to a standstill yesterday following the brutal murder of a 36-year-old nail technician and mother of two.
LIMA (Reuters) – The United States urged regional leaders on Saturday to take stronger steps to isolate Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro, as it joined a declaration condemning the worsening humanitarian crisis and political repression in the South American nation.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro, excluded from the Summit of the Americas due to regional censure of his democratic record, mocked the meeting in Lima as a “complete failure” on Saturday.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Latin American leaders met in Peru yesterday at a regional summit that was overshadowed by Washington’s decision to order military strikes on Syria, prompting U.S.
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