PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti said on Wednesday it would spend $55 million on a new election after the results of the last vote were scrapped, with most of the money to be drawn from the poor Caribbean nation’s own coffers as foreign donors are reluctant to pay again.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan police crushed and chopped up nearly 2,000 shotguns and pistols in a Caracas city square on Wednesday, as the new interior minister relaunched a long-stalled gun control campaign in one of the world’s most crime-ridden countries.
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Lawyers seeking compensation for Haitians killed or sickened by cholera that they blame on United Nations peacekeepers said the UN’s admission on Thursday of its possible involvement in the outbreak was a breakthrough in their legal battle.
LA PAZ (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales opened a military school yesterday which he said would teach an “anti-imperialist” doctrine to counter US policies “based on fear.”
KINGSTON, Jamaica (Observer) – GraceKennedy Limited has announced the recall of batches of its curry products that were packaged in the United States and distributed within the US, Bermuda and the Bahamas.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba on Tuesday published policy guidelines for the next five years that signal no new domestic initiatives although it upgraded foreign investment to “fundamental in certain sectors.”
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti has identified its first case of the birth defect microcephaly linked to the Zika virus, a senior health ministry official said on Tuesday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Chinese Association of T&T committee member, David Lee Kim, yesterday called on the police to go after the gangs at Santa Rosa Heights, Arima, who have been terrorising the community and targeting Chinese businesses.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Washington is seeking closer coordination with several Latin American countries to tackle a jump in migrants from Asia, Africa and the Middle East who it believes are trying to reach the United States from the south on an arduous route by plane, boat and through jungle on foot.
(Trinidadian Guardian) The latest Chinese victim is a 74-year-old man who was beaten on July 28 and left for dead at his Pinto Road business place, which is located two buildings from the Pinto Road Police Post.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US officials said yesterday that 15 inmates from the Guantanamo prison were transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the single largest transfer of Guantanamo detainees during President Barack Obama’s administration.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s approval rating fell to a nine-month low of 21.2 per cent in July amid calls from government critics for a recall referendum next year, according to a local pollster Datanalisis.
(Trinidad Guardian) – US actor Danny Glover, former independent senator Rev Daniel Teelucksingh, Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Caribbean journalist Richard Anthony Best, are among 11 people selected to receive honorary degrees in October from the University of the West Indies.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – New York City police searched yesterday for a gunman who killed a Muslim cleric and his associate as they left prayers at a mosque in the borough of Queens on Saturday, a crime that sowed fear and sadness in their budding Bangladeshi community.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress wants the national budget “re-prioritised” to focus on tackling poverty, unemployment and inequality following local election defeats this month, the party said yesterday.
(Reuters) – A team from Bangladesh will meet officials of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the U.S.
(Trinidad Express) Insurance company Colfire has come under fire after one of its employees posted a warning letter he received from the company, chiding him for his “unprofessional” hairstyle.
(Trinidad Guardian) Southern Division police are warning Pokemon trainers against venturing into parks and lonely areas late at nights, saying that they are making themselves a target for bandits.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday announced a 50 percent minimum wage hike that takes effect on Sept.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Swiss-based mining and trading firm Glencore said it would begin arbitration proceedings against Bolivia over the nationalization of some of its assets by the Evo Morales government.
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