BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Brazilian association of criminal lawyers requested yesterday that a Supreme Court justice issue an injunction freeing former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, who began serving a 12-year sentence for bribery over the weekend.
(Trinidad Guardian) An act of honesty has earned a young lady high praise and has gone viral as more people learn about it.
OSLO, (Reuters) – Aluminium producer Norsk Hydro denied yesterday its Alunorte alumina refinery in Brazil had contaminated local waters, contradicting the findings of a Brazilian public health group.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia yesterday arrested a soon-to-be congressman from the Marxist FARC party on charges of drug trafficking, the government said, sparking outrage from the former rebel group that demobilized last year.
VALENCIA, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday reopened air and sea links to the islands of Aruba, Bonaire and Curacao, three months after cutting them off in an attempt to curb smuggling.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Brazil’s government has been told that development projects, including hydropower dams, in protected areas can no longer go ahead without the prior approval of lawmakers.
(Trinidad Guardian) An act of honesty has earned a young lady high praise and has gone viral as more people learn about it.
(Trinidad Guardian) Evidence surfaced on Friday pointing fingers at the UNC political strategists debating the use of confidential information to influence potential voters in the run-up to the 2015 general election.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Security has been increased around former Minister of National Security, Robert Montague, following reports out of the United States of a possible threat on his life by gunrunners.
SAO BERNARDO DO CAMPO, Brazil (Reuters) – Former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva turned himself in to police on Saturday, ending a day-long standoff to begin serving a 12-year prison sentence for corruption that derails his bid to return to power.
BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Colombia’s highest court has told the government it must take urgent action to protect its Amazon rainforest and stem rising deforestation, in what campaigners said was an historic moment that should help conserve forests and counter climate change.
(Trinidad Guardian) Public officials who usurped the authority of the political directorate and not Foreign Affairs Minister Dennis Moses, were responsible for T&T’s recent refusal to support Dominica’s request for waiver of its dues for the Organisation of American States (OAS) last month.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Brazilian judge yesterday ordered former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva to turn himself in to police within 24 hours to serve a 12-year sentence for a graft conviction, likely ending the presidential front-runner’s hopes of returning to power.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Nine Guatemalan businessmen who were sentenced on Wednesday for paying bribes to receive public contracts will have to build roads and a school in the Central American country as part of their punishment, according to a U.N.-backed
(Barbados Nation) Police have made a breakthrough in their investigations into the unnatural death of Shayne Welch on Monday, March 26.
CARACAS/PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Venezuela said yesterday it was halting commercial relations with Panamanian officials and companies, including regional airline Copa , for alleged involvement in money laundering, prompting Panama to recall its ambassador.
(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Edmund Dillon has issued a statement saying he is pleased to report, that the Court Proceeding in the United States, with respect to his friend Neville Piper, “has been fully and effectively resolved”.
(Trinidad Express) A mentally challenged man found by police beating his elderly mother was shot dead by officers on Tuesday.
(Trinidad Express) A 20-year-old woman was killed by a man who went to the police station and confessed.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – A U.S. jury yesterday found former Bolivian President Gonzalo Sanchez de Lozada and his defence minister responsible for civilian deaths during 2003 street protests in Bolivia, awarding $10 million in compensatory damages to victims’ families.
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