WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. immigration officials are planning a month-long series of raids in May and June to deport hundreds of Central American mothers and children found to have entered the country illegally, according to sources and an internal document seen by Reuters.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba and the United States will meet next week for a third round of talks on improving relations, Havana said yesterday, adding that the two former Cold War foes were not yet negotiating their multibillion-dollar claims against one another.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Amid immigration tensions between Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago, Finance Minister Audley Shaw yesterday highlighted trade as another area which represents serious imbalance between Jamaica and the republic.
CARACAS/PUNTO FIJO, (Reuters) – Soldiers fired tear gas at stone-throwing protesters yesterday as Venezuela’s opposition marched to pressure electoral authorities into allowing a recall referendum against unpopular leftist President Nicolas Maduro.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Public sector corruption siphons $1.5 trillion to $2 trillion annually from the global economy in bribes and costs far more in stunted economic growth, lost tax revenues and sustained poverty, the International Monetary Fund said yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) Police are now investigating the murder of Colin Forde of 10th Avenue, New Orleans, St Michael.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff took her battle to survive impeachment to the Supreme Court yesterday, in a last-ditch attempt to stay in office a day before the Senate will likely vote to try her for breaking budget laws.
(Trinidad Guardian) Over a decade of physical and verbal confrontations between father and son came to an end on Sunday night when Sham Siewnarine was stabbed to death, as his mother told T&T Guardian, by his father.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Senate forged ahead with impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff yesterday, rejecting a surprise decision by the acting speaker of the lower house, who tried to annul a key vote just days before the president could be suspended from office.
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – Panama will close key crossings on its border with Colombia to prevent undocumented migrants from Cuba and Africa entering the country, President Juan Carlos Varela said yesterday.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s socialist government has extended a two-day workweek for public sector employees for another two weeks because of a drought that has sapped hydroelectric power generation in the OPEC country.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police have opened an investigation into who was responsible for the sexual abuse of a 12-year-old girl who recently gave birth to a baby boy at the San Fernando General Hospital.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – A former Brazilian finance minister and the current head of the nation’s state development bank allegedly pressured big construction firms into making campaign donations for President Dilma Rousseff, a newspaper reported yesterday.
LA PAZ/SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales accused Chile yesterday of threatening the landlocked Andean nation by establishing a military base near their shared border, an accusation that Chile’s government said was false.
LOS ANGELES, (Variety.com) – Marvel-Disney’s “Captain America: Civil War” has opened the summer spectacularly with a dominant $181.8 million weekend at 4,266 U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) The owner of the Claxton Bay bar where a teen bandit was beaten so badly by his “victims” that he never regained consciousess after he was hospitalised feels no joy he is dead.
(Trinidad Guardian) The owner of the Claxton Bay bar where a teen bandit was beaten so badly by his “victims” that he never regained consciousess after he was hospitalised feels no joy he is dead.
PUERTO ORDAZ, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Residents of Venezuela’s southern city of Puerto Ordaz enjoy pleasant views of the Orinoco and Caroni rivers and are a half hour’s drive from one of the world’s biggest hydroelectric dams.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s armed forces will launch air raids on crime gangs involved in drug trafficking and illegal mining, the defence minister said yesterday, as the government steps up its offensive against what it considers the biggest threat to national security.
(Trinidad Guardian) Generous Trinidadians have responded to an appeal by Guyanese national Kumar Shivpersaud to help send the body of his murdered friend and countryman Khemraj Persaud back home for burial.
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