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By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia will not be provoked into armed conflict with Venezuela despite the neighboring country’s aggressive rhetoric and its dynamiting of two cross-border …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 1 Comment
(Antigua Sun) – The 24-year-old Guyanese man who was convicted last month for uttering false documents to immigration officials is expected to be jointly charged …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 21, 2009 | 0 Comments
Nine million added to poverty list
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) says an additional nine million people have sunk into …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 0 Comments
(Trinidad Express) – Crime Stoppers International launched the Caribbean’s Most Wanted website on Tuesday night.
The launch took place at the Marriott Hotel, Port of Spain, and was …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 1 Comment
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Claiming Jamaica appears close to defaulting on its debts, ratings agency Moody’s Investors has downgraded the country’s local and foreign currency bonds …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 20, 2009 | 0 Comments
OECS discuss economic union
Leaders from the Organisation of Eastern Caribbean States (OECS) are this week furthering talks on plans to establish an economic union, at …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment
STOCKHOLM/BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union trade negotiators are within days of a deal to cut tariffs on bananas imported from outside the African and Caribbean …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, November 19, 2009 | 0 Comments
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Venezuela has shown little interest in curbing the number of illegal flights hauling Colombian cocaine from its territory for the United States …
By Stabroek staff | Thursday, November 19, 2009 | 0 Comments
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – BHP Billiton halted operations at its Spence copper mine in Chile after striking workers invaded the installations, a company official said on …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, November 16, 2009 | 0 Comments
TERESINA, Brazil, (Reuters) – Raimundo Alves used to get his food by scavenging at a garbage dump on the outskirts of Teresina, the capital of …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, November 16, 2009 | 0 Comments
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Patrick Manning called the media to a meeting on Sunday night at the newly- commissioned National Academy for the Performing Arts, …
By Stabroek staff | Monday, November 16, 2009 | 3 Comments
(Jamaica Gleaner) Government officials are expressing concern about recent pronouncements from Britain aimed at further tightening its immigration policies. “We are very, very worried because …
By Stabroek staff | Sunday, November 15, 2009 | 2 Comments
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – Peru will quit an APEC summit in Singapore after recalling its envoy to Chile over charges a Peruvian military officer had spied …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 14, 2009 | 0 Comments
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago is officially in a recession.
Central Bank Governor Ewart Williams has confirmed what the business sector and the labour force have …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 14, 2009 | 0 Comments
(Antigua Sun) – The Lower House of Parliament met Tuesday evening to debate a motion in an effort to find answers to the recent increase …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 14, 2009 | 1 Comment
HAVANA (Reuters) – Peas and potatoes have become the harbingers of change in Cuba as President Raul Castro chips away at some of the Cuban …
By Stabroek staff | Saturday, November 14, 2009 | 0 Comments
Patent office recommended
Caribbean ministers have agreed to recommend one office for the region for issuing patents.
The decision was made at a meeting of Caricom legal …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – United Nations peacekeeping forces will not leave Haiti any time soon as the country, one of the world’s poorest, remains fragile, …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
Cuba must make human rights gestures
The European Union’s development commissioner wants Cuba to show signs it’s serious about protecting fundamental human rights.
Karel De Gucht met …
By Stabroek staff | Friday, November 13, 2009 | 0 Comments
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba has ordered all state enterprises to adopt “extreme measures” to cut energy usage through the end of the year in hopes …
