SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A steep decline in sugar and oil prices over the last six months has diminished the hope of financial recovery for a number of Brazilian mills, and could put new dealmaking in the sector on hold, according to industry experts.
DETROIT, (Reuters) – Motorists in the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom spend billions each year in time and fuel searching for parking spots then pay for more time than they need to avoid tickets that would likely cost less, concludes a study released on Wednesday by traffic data aggregator INRIX.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s government has seized assets from dozens of foreign corporations in nationalizations by the late President Hugo Chavez and the embattled current government of Nicolas Maduro.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says CARICOM could proceed with a legal challenge to Cricket West Indies’ right to manage the sport in the Caribbean, in an unprecedented test of the body’s longstanding authority.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Former Brazilian leader Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a top contender to win next year’s presidential election, was convicted on corruption charges today and sentenced to nearly 10 years in prison.
Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, Karen Cummings (right) and Director of Prisons (ag), Gladwyn Samuels today visited Hubert Trim, a Prison Warden injured during Sunday’s revolt at the Camp Street Prison.
-masterminds seized revolver from warder
The number of Camp Street Prison inmates unaccounted for after Sunday’s breakout stands at eight, according to Director of Prisons Gladwyn Samuels, who also said yesterday that the four masterminds took a service revolver from a warder.
A Route 32 minibus driver was fatally shot around midday yesterday on the McDoom Public Road, East Bank Demerara after he attempted to drive away from bandits who robbed several passengers onboard his bus.
Taxi driver Matthew Shivtahal, who says he was abducted by four of the men who broke out of the Camp Street jail on Sunday, yesterday credited his one-year-old son as the reason why the men spared his life.
President David Granger yesterday said that his administration does not intend to rebuild a full scale prison facility at the site of the former Georgetown Prison on Camp Street, the Ministry of the Presidency said last evening.
While lauding the performance of the security forces during Sunday’s revolt at the Camp Street prison, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday flayed the government for not doing enough to act on the recommendations made after last year’s inquiry into a similar insurrection and called for more information to be made public.
Three-time golf champion Imran Khan, of Courbane Park, Annandale, passed away on Monday evening, mere hours after being diagnosed with the bacterial infection, leptospirosis.
One of the accused in the murder of businessman Rajendra Singh, who was killed after being kidnapped in 2014, was yesterday discharged after the prosecution failed to prove a case against him.
Retired Assistant Com-missioner of Police, Paul Slowe was yesterday sworn in to lead the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into an alleged plot to assassinate President David Granger and the police force’s handling of the investigation.
Relatives of inmates relocated to the Lusignan Prison after Sunday’s Camp Street jail fire yesterday bemoaned what they said was the slothfulness of the prisons authority in providing them with information.