CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela will begin cutting electricity supplies amid a prolonged drought that has limited power generation, the electricity minister said yesterday, an unpopular measure for a population already struggling to obtain food and medicine.
(Reuters) – SunEdison Inc, once the fastest-growing U.S. renewable energy company, filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection yesterday after a short-lived but aggressive binge of debt-fueled acquisitions proved unsustainable.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – An international arbitration center has ordered Venezuela to pay British cattle company Vestey Group nearly $100 million for the nationalization of cattle ranches, pilling fresh pressure on the cash-strapped leftist government.
(Trinidad Guardian) “A barrel of peppers is worth more than a barrel of oil in T&T.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Beleaguered Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff will travel to New York in a bid to rally international support against her impeachment, leaving behind a Cabinet paralyzed by political crisis as another minister defected yesterday.
TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canada’s Liberal government will introduce a law in spring 2017 to legalize recreational marijuana, it said yesterday, fulfilling an election pledge and following several U.S.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – An anti-graft mission of the Organization of American States (OAS) in Honduras said on Tuesday it will investigate a multi-million dollar corruption scandal that has dogged the president of the Central American country, Juan Orlando Hernandez.
(Trinidad Guardian) Local Muslim leaders want a meeting with the Ministers of National Security and Foreign Affairs to discuss recent Government statements about security and monitoring systems, following revelations that 105 T&T nationals have gone to Syria over 2013-2015 to link with the Isis terrorist network.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – President Raul Castro will serve up to five more years as head of Cuba’s Communist Party as he and other aging revolutionaries keep their grip on power at a time of economic reform and detente with the United States.
(Trinidad Guardian) In the first step of an effort to cut jobs, Spanish energy firm Repsol E&P T&T Ltd yesterday offered 190 employees Voluntary Separation of Employment (VSEP) packages.
MACEIO/BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) – Dilma Rousseff is not the first Brazilian president forced to contemplate the loyalty of Renan Calheiros on the eve of her possible impeachment.
PORTOVIEJO/PEDERNALES, Ecuador (Reuters) – The death toll rose to 350 yesterday from a devastating earthquake that hit Ecuador at the weekend, as rescuers hunted for survivors, victims clamoured for aid and looting broke out in the Andean nation’s shattered coastal region.
HAVANA (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama’s visit to Communist-led Cuba was an “attack” on its history and culture aimed at misleading a new business class, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said yesterday, the latest sign of blow-back after the ground-breaking trip last month.
PEDERNALES, Ecuador, (Reuters) – The death toll from Ecuador’s biggest earthquake in decades soared to at least 246 yesterday as rescuers using tractors and bare hands hunted desperately for survivors in shattered coastal towns.
(Trinidad Guardian) China Jiangsu International Corporation T&T Ltd has warned Mustapha Ibrahim, the chairman of the Commission of Enquiry into the Las Alturas housing project to desist from making “adverse, inflammatory and injurious remarks” about them.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff held last-minute negotiations with wavering lawmakers yesterday in an effort to secure crucial support the day before an impeachment vote that could lead to her removal from office.
HAVANA (Reuters) – President Raul Castro warned Cubans yesterday that the United States was determined to end Cuba’s socialist revolution despite restoring relations and a visit by US President Barack Obama, saying one-party Communism was essential to defend the system.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Constance Briscoe, a disgraced former British judge of Jamaican parentage, has been disbarred for telling lies to the police in a scandal that landed her in jail in 2014.
MONTEVIDEO (Reuters) – Crisis-stricken Venezuela on Friday paid $30 million of over $100 million in debt it owes Uruguayan dairy farmers, the government of Uruguay said.
(Trinidad Guardian) One of two suspects detained for the murder of British national Adrian St John was last night charged.
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