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.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Pro-impeachment lawmakers chanted “Dilma Out” in the lower house of Brazil Congress yesterday, as it opened a raucous three-day debate on whether to impeach President Dilma Rousseff on charges of manipulating budget accounts.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Local onion production has doubled, moving from 6 per cent in 2013 to 12 per cent of local consumption in 2015, according to the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday reversed a half-hour time change that was one of the signature measures of former president Hugo Chavez’s idiosyncratic 14-year rule.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti will not meet a deadline to complete its presidential election by April 24, the top election official said on Thursday, without giving a new date to hold the already delayed vote in the impoverished Caribbean country.
(Trinidad Guardian) Attorney Gerald Ramdeen is calling on Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi and Finance Minister Colm Imbert to apologise to cane farmers and the nation for allegedly misleading the country on the outstanding TT$75 million tranche from the European Union. He
(Jamaica Gleaner) The government is proposing to spend approximately J$580 billion for this fiscal year.
(Trinidad Guardian) A second man, who went to the police yesterday to “clear his name” in connection with the murder of British national and aspiring cricketer, Adrian St John, has been arrested.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff pledged yesterday to form a government of national unity if she survives an impeachment vote in Congress this weekend, but the odds of that lengthened as allies continued to desert her.
GURI, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Drought has turned parts of the area behind Venezuela’s Guri dam, one of the world’s biggest, into a desert, but the government is optimistic of rain within weeks to drive the vast installation that provides the bulk of the OPEC nation’s power.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, facing impeachment by Congress, yesterday denounced a conspiracy to overthrow her, suggesting that Vice President Michel Temer is one of the leaders of the plot.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Almost half of Jamaicans say they would throw their children out of their homes for being gay, resurrecting the issue of homelessness reportedly affecting members of the lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) community in Jamaica.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian police arrested former senator Gim Argello yesterday, federal prosecutors said, as part of a two-year corruption investigation that has given momentum to impeachment proceedings against President Dilma Rousseff.
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