Cubans resigned to rising costs as gas price soars overnight
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuban Luis Collado was pleasantly surprised by the unusually short line – at least by Cuba standards – of just a few vehicles on Havana’s waterfront on Friday.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuban Luis Collado was pleasantly surprised by the unusually short line – at least by Cuba standards – of just a few vehicles on Havana’s waterfront on Friday.
(Reuters) – Venezuela’s oil exports slightly increased in February to some 670,000 barrels per day (bpd), but ongoing shipping delays worsened a bottleneck of tankers waiting to load, according to documents and vessel monitoring data.
(Trinidad Guardian) Worried relatives of five Cedros fishermen, including a father and son, who have been missing out at sea since Saturday, complained yesterday that the authorities were not doing enough to find them.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Dutch Antilles, a trio of islands between 800 and 1,000 kilometres west of Tobago, are all on alert as oil from the Tobago oil spill created by the Gulstream barge drifts across the Caribbean Sea and their Bonaire government wants to take legal action against those responsible for the environmental disaster.
BOA VISTA/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s northernmost state of Roraima is suffering a sharp spike in wildfires, threatening the crisis-wracked Yanomami Indigenous people and reigniting fears of catastrophe in the Amazon rainforest after months of improved deforestation data.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Benin and Chad have formally notified the United Nations of their intent to contribute personnel to an international force to help Haitian national police fight armed gangs, a U.N.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s government committed human rights violations that amount to “crimes against humanity,” a United Nations-appointed team of human rights experts said in a report yesterday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A wave of panic swept through downtown Port-au-Prince yesterday, with an outburst of violence marked by heavy gunfire and improvised barricades, and a gang leader took responsibility saying it was a demonstration against authorities.
(Trinidad Guardian) The vessel towing the barge that capsized and spilled oil off Tobago has not yet been found but information has been received in Guyana about who was involved in importing cargo, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday at a media conference at the Piarco International Airport.
(Trinidad Guardian) The vessel towing the barge that capsized and spilled oil off Tobago has not yet been found but information has been received in Guyana about who was involved in importing cargo, Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley said yesterday at a media conference at the Piarco International Airport.
(Trinidad Guardian) Grenada and Suriname have now also expressed interest in the planned regional cargo ferry, and it will require more than T&T’s Galleons Passage – or even two vessels – to cover six Caricom states so far.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Five suspects accused of involvement in the assassination of Ecuadorean anti-corruption presidential candidate Fernando Villavicencio, who was gunned down in Quito last August, will go to trial, the attorney general’s office said yesterday.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Bankrupt Brazilian airline Gol GOLL4.SA received U.S. court approval yesterday for a $1 billion loan, after resolving the concerns of a group of lenders that feared they would be sidelined by the new loan.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – A U.S. court has sentenced a Florida resident to five years in prison for participating in a “sophisticated smuggling scheme” trafficking arms and ammunition to Haiti’s powerful 400 Mawozo gang, the U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) A short-lived policy banning open-air cremations for COVID-19 victims during the pandemic has been deemed unconstitutional.
(Trinidad Guardian) A short-lived policy banning open-air cremations for COVID-19 victims during the pandemic has been deemed unconstitutional.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minister of Health Terrence Deyalsingh yesterday called out certain fast-food brands, as he once again lamented what he described as the scourge of hypertension and diabetes facing this country.
(Trinidad Guardian) Multi-platinum Grammy Award-winning dancehall artiste Sean Paul Henriques is once again advising Trinibad artistes to strike a balance with their music instead of focusing only on the negative.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian Security Council Secretary Nikolai Patrushev, a top ally of President Vladimir Putin, pledged on Monday to help Latin American countries counter what he described as U.S.
(Trinidad Express) Alpheaus Paul, owner of Cafe Al Fresco in Lambeau, Tobago, has been forced to close his business as a result of the February 7 fuel spill.
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