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Red Stripe goes bigger with cassava

(Jamaica Gleaner) – Beer maker Red Stripe has underscored its commitment to use more cassava in its products with a 25-year lease agreement with the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries.

Brazilian police search Alexion offices in fraud probe

SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian police searched the Sao Paulo offices of drugmaker Alexion Pharmaceuticals Inc yesterday as part of a probe into its relationship with a patient advocacy group accused of filing fraudulent lawsuits to spur drug purchases.

Venezuela’s jailed Lopez is well, urges more protests -wife

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Jailed opposition Venezuelan politician Leopoldo Lopez is well and is urging street demonstrators to keep up massive anti-government protests, his wife said yesterday after her first visit with the former presidential hopeful in over a month, putting to rest rumors of his ill health.

Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Kamla wants T&T gov’t to come clean on Massy buyout

(Trinidad Guardian) Calling for transparency in last week’s $255 million buyout of Massy’s Com-munications Ltd by state-owned Telecommunica-tions Services of T&T (TSTT), Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday called on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and his Junior Minister Stuart Young to come clean on the deal.

Communist-ruled Cuba hosts first transgender Mass

MATANZAS, Cuba, (Reuters) – For decades belonging to a religion and being anything but heterosexual was stigmatized in Communist-ruled, macho Cuba, making the Mass held by three transgender pastors in the western Cuban city of Matanzas all the more groundbreaking.

Kamla wants T&T gov’t to come clean on Massy buyout

Trinidad Guardian) Calling for transparency in last week’s $255 million buyout of Massy’s Communications Ltd by state-owned Telecommunications Services of T&T (TSTT), Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar yesterday called on Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and his Junior Minister Stuart Young to come clean on the deal.

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