VALENCIA, Venezuela/ CARACAS (Reuters) – Billionaire businessman Lorenzo Mendoza has ruled out challenging Venezuela’s leftist President Nicolas Maduro in the upcoming election despite multiple calls for him to stand, sources from his company’s workforce said yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s unpopular socialist president Nicolas Maduro said yesterday his right-wing Latin American counterparts showed intolerance by trying to exclude him from an upcoming summit in Lima – and he vowed to go anyway.
(Trinidad Guardian) Soca legends Machel Montano and Austin “Super Blue” Lyons have been crowned this year’s Road March winners.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s government will declare an emergency in its northern border state of Roraima to boost funding and troops to help control an influx of Venezuelan refugees into the country, Defence Minister Raul Jungmann said yesterday.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada will create a legal framework to guarantee the rights of indigenous people in all government decisions, doing away with policies built to serve colonial interests, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday.
NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – British charity Oxfam, rocked by a sex scandal in Haiti, should not be made a scapegoat for a problem that can occur anywhere among humanitarian groups working in the island nation, charity officials said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Denyse Bailey grabbed her three daughters and hid in her bedroom after a gunman opened fire on her house, killing her son-in-law and injuring another relative on Monday.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Former Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom and a former finance minister who is now chairman of Oxfam International were arrested yesterday as part of a local corruption investigation, the public prosecutor’s office said.
CUCUTA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Venezuelan accusations that Colombia has been eyeing military action against its crisis-hit neighbour were “ridiculous,” the head of Colombia’s military forces said yesterday, during a visit to the border area.
LIMA, (Reuters) – The “Lima Group” of Latin American nations plus Canada yesterday criticized the Venezuelan government’s decision to hold a presidential election on April 22 without reaching an agreement with an opposition coalition.
(Trinidad Guardian) Youth triumphed over experience at the Calypso Monarch competition on Sunday night as 24-year-old relative newcomer Helon Francis beat out a host of veteran calypsonians to claim his first crown.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Following a lengthy meeting yesterday to deal with the issue of the Prime Minister’s decision to place the acting chief justice on probation, the island’s judges have released a declaration on the separation of powers, judicial independence and judicial accountability.
(Trinidad Express) A teenager was stabbed to death during an altercation in Chaguanas yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) ST JOHN’S – LIAT, The Carib-bean Airline, remains committed to serving the region and its needs.
(Trinidad Guardian) Still no name, no confirmed religious group, nationality nor what exactly the threat is or was in regard to the reported plot to disrupt Carnival 2018.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – The executive director of Oxfam International said yesterday she was heartbroken by a sexual misconduct scandal in Haiti involving aid workers that prompted Britain’s government to threaten to cut off aid funding to charities.
(Trinidad Guardian) British couple Elias Mark Jr and Amanda Binns who cut their stay in T&T short after being robbed at gunpoint.
(Barbados Nation) Minister of Foreign Affairs Senator Maxine McClean was robbed on Friday The incident was said to have occurred at the ATM at the bottom of University Hill around 3:30 p.m.
(Trinidad Guardian) The threat to disrupt Carnival 2018 is still very much on, acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams stated on Saturday as he announced that three more people are now in police custody following ongoing investigations into the matter.
(Trinidad Guardian) Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams during an emergency press conference at the Police Services’ Administration Building in Port-of-Spain, yesterday.
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