RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Billionaire Flavio Rocha dropped his bid to become president of Brazil yesterday as rival centre-right parties seek to draw his Brazilian Republican Party (PRB) into an alliance for the October elections.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Former Marxist FARC rebel commanders in Colombia, headed by their leader Rodrigo Londono, appeared before a tribunal yesterday that will try crimes allegedly committed during the country’s five-decade civil war.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Rowley administration has priorities and decriminalising marijuana isn’t one of them.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s Finance Minister Mauricio Cardenas yesterday hosted a meeting with officials from Mexico, Panama, and the United States to share information on Venezuelan government officials suspected of corruption and their support networks.
SEATTLE, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A group of Barbudans has filed a legal claim against their government to halt construction of an international airport, saying the money should instead be used to restore basic services after Hurricane Irma devastated the island.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Chilean fishermen were working yesterday to recover hundreds of thousands of salmon that escaped from a fish farm as environmentalists warned of possible risks if they are eaten by humans, the government said.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian federal prosecutors yesterday charged the former chief executive of U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) A prison officer who walked into a robbery at a Chinese supermarket in Arouca attempted to run away but was chased down by one of the armed thieves.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador’s government said yesterday a Supreme Court ruling that seeks to compel testimony from the president over the disappearance of a diplomat nearly 30 years ago in the run-up to the country’s bloody civil war was a political attack.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Pan Caribbean Sugar Company has given notice that it will not operate the Monymusk sugar factory next year.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is deeply concerned about intensifying violence in Nicaragua and deplores the loss of life in protests against Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega, his spokesman said in a statement yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s economy contracted 12 percent in the first three months of this year compared with the same quarter of 2017, the opposition-led congress said yesterday, in another dramatic indication of the OPEC nation’s unraveling.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley is describing last Sunday’s triple murder on the Boardwalk in Chaguaramas as an act of “terrorism” and he is appealing to communities and citizens that if they know of people who are “arming themselves to let somebody know.”
(Barbados Nation) Barbados is being urged to set up its own law school.
(Jamaica Observer) Defence attorneys representing dancehall artiste Vybz Kartel and his fellow murder convicts emerged from the Appeal Court with broad smiles on Monday after being granted permission to introduce fresh evidence to challenge their 2014 conviction.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Prime Minister Andrew Holness has announced that Floyd Grindley, the general manager of the scandal-hit Petrojam has “agreed” to step down from the post.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba will restrict business licenses to one per person under new private sector regulations which come into force in December amid fears reforms to open up its ailing economy have gone too far and are fuelling inequality.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two days after he escaped bullets from gunmen, Fabien “Super” Williams was killed on Sunday while at the Boardwalk in Chaguaramas.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two days after he escaped bullets from gunmen, Fabien “Super” Williams was killed on Sunday while at the Boardwalk in Chaguaramas.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Vice Chancellery of the University of the West Indies (UWI) reported on Friday that governments of the region are making arrangements to settle debt owing to the institution, estimated at around US$200 million, in cash and kind.
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