PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (Reuters) – Haiti could stem its seven-year-long cholera epidemic by the end of 2018 as the number of reported cases has dropped sharply, government and United Nations officials said.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba is reviving a network of state-run “love motels” in Havana where couples can rent rooms by the hour as the communist government seeks to “diversify options for love,” the official trade union weekly Trabajadores said yesterday.
The Hague, (Reuters) – Costa Rica asked the highest U.N. court today to establish its maritime boundaries with Nicaragua once and for all to end repeated border disputes with its Central American neighbour.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro raised the country’s minimum wage by half yesterday to just over $12.50 per month at the black market exchange rate.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday advised President Anthony Carmona to revoke the appointment of Marlene McDonald, Minister of Public Utilities with immediate effect.
GENEVA (Reuters) – The United Nations called on Venezuela on Friday to uphold the rule of law and freedom of assembly, and criticised President Nicolas Maduro’s government for moves against the chief state prosecutor.
PORTO VELHO, Brazil/GUAYARAMERÍN, Bolivia, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Holding a plastic bottle of toxic mercury with his bare hands on an illegal gold mining barge in the Amazon basin, the 22-year-old miner says he is well aware of the dangers of the job.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Labour unions staged a nationwide strike yesterday to protest against legislative changes to Brazil’s labour and pension laws that are central to the economic reform agenda of embattled centre-right President Michel Temer.
(Trinidad Guardian) The gruesome murders of 13-year-old Videsh Subar and his 56-year-old sitter Rose Mohammed have impacted on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, so much so that it has left him very disturbed and shaken.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Telecommunication company Digicel is to refund prepaid customers the unannounced monthly maintenance charge it began imposing on some of them on June 22.
(Trinidad Guardian) The gruesome murders of 13-year-old Videsh Subar and his 56-year-old sitter Rose Mohammed have impacted on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley, so much so that it has left him very disturbed and shaken.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state prosecutors’ office said yesterday that it is calling in the former head of the National Guard for questioning about “serious and systematic” human rights violations during the recent wave of anti-government protests.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian authorities issued arrest warrants yesterday for 95 police officers in Rio de Janeiro state who they say have sold arms and tipped off drug gangs to future operations, in the largest such effort yet to root out corrupt officers.
(Barbados Nation) Millions of dollars in funds are being left untouched as Caribbean agencies spend months haggling over minor details or, like the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), are not proactive.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The former live-in helper for Dr Peter Vogel along with her boyfriend have been found guilty of the 2007 murder of the university lecturer.
(Trinidad Express) Former police prosecutor Harry Ramlochan, who raped a 17-year-old child at the San Fernando police station when she went there to make a report, has been sentenced to 17 years in prison with hard labour.
(Trinidad Express) Another Chinese national has been shot and killed.
Yang Zeng, the owner of N&N Mini Mart, was shot by men who entered her business place demanding money on Tuesday night.