(Trinidad Guardian) A Hardbargain family who offered their home as refuge to a relative who was being hunted by criminals, suffered a tragic fate yesterday morning when two of their relatives were killed and two others injured by gunmen who stormed their house.
RIO DE JANEIRO/NEW DELHI (Reuters) – Petrobras has warned its Indian partners in a huge offshore project to not expect oil from the site until 2022, according to sources, a fresh sign of how low oil prices and the state-owned company’s corruption scandal and mountain of debt are dragging on Brazil’s energy industry.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s federal police served five arrest warrants and conducted search and seizure operations in three states yesterday, in the latest round of a sweeping corruption probe around state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two non-functioning traffic lights at the intersection of the Bypass Connector Road and St Helena Bypass Road are being blamed for the death of two pilots in a car accident yesterday afternoon.
(Trinidad Guardian) The T&T economy stands to benefit financially from the presence of the Trinbago Knight Riders (TKR) in this country, so says CEO of TKR Venky Mysore.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Days before his passing, former prime minister Patrick Manning told his wife he knew he was dying.
(Trinidad Guardian) Bankers are frustrated over the long awaited passage and implementation of legislation for T&T to become FATCA (Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act) compliant.
(Trinidad Express) Former Prime Minister Patrick Manning has been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia, an aggressive form of bone marrow cancer.
(Barbados Nation) Plans to make it mandatory for Barbadians to be fingerprinted when leaving or entering the island’s air and sea ports have been deemed unconstitutional.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A new indictment against a Macau billionaire developer accused of bribing a former U.N.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian police yesterday raided offices of pulpmaker Eldorado Celulose controlled by the billionaire Batista family, a company spokesman said, in the latest stage of the country’s biggest-ever corruption investigation.
(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Tuesday launched his promised Caricom Review Commission and immediately dismissed speculation that Jamaica is preparing to pull out of the regional economic bloc.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Three years ago, Jamaica was producing just six per cent of the onions consumed locally.
(Jamaica Gleaner) “Jamaica has been the ATM for Trinidad and Tobago.”
(Jamaica Gleaner) “Jamaica has been the ATM for Trinidad and Tobago.”
MONESSEN, Pennsylvania/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump yesterday vowed to force Canada and Mexico to renegotiate the NAFTA trade agreement with the United States – or scrap it – if elected, as part of an effort to protect and restore American jobs.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Four scientists who specialized in sweet potatoes were named the winners of this year’s World Food Prize yesterday for their work to make foods more nutritious.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Democratic U.S. presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders brought his firebrand rhetoric back to the floor of the Senate yesterday to condemn a White House-backed bill on Puerto Rico’s financial crisis as “colonialism at its worst.”
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – A man has been arrested for trying to extinguish the Olympic torch by throwing a bucket of water over it as it passed through his farming town of Maracaju in central Brazil, an officer at the local police station said yesterday.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama, Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto will this week agree that their three countries will aim to produce 50 per cent of their power from clean energy sources by 2025, the White House said yesterday.
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