BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A Brazilian Federal Supreme Court justice yesterday ordered Congress to start impeachment proceedings against Vice President Michel Temer, deepening a political crisis and uncertainty over leadership of Latin America’s largest country.
(Trinidad Express) PORT OF SPAIN – A national crisis. That is how Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has described the unacceptable level of criminal conduct in the country.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s electoral board said it was the only body allowed to reform referendum rules governing removal of the country’s president, throwing cold water on opposition plans to recall President Nicolas Maduro amid an economic crisis.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Police are advising that they will be strictly enforcing the laws relating to how close to Gordon House persons can gather for next week’s State Opening of Parliament.
(Trinidad Guardian) Desperate because they are unable to pay home mortgages and vehicle loans, over 100 former ArcelorMittal employees overpowered security guards as they stormed the Point Lisas plant yesterday, demanding answers about their pension and savings plan.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – With neither side commanding enough firm support in the battle to impeach Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, the outcome of a crucial vote in Congress this month may boil down to a handful of no-shows and abstentions.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – His manners and dress are so impeccable that the man who may soon be Brazil’s next president is quietly known by political allies and enemies alike as “The Butler.”
(Trinidad Guardian) A 13-week pregnant Belmont woman has been diagnosed with the Zika virus, even as new international research seems to be tightening the connection between the virus and the potentially devastating birth defect of microcephaly — a medical condition where babies’ heads are abnormally small.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador is proposing to order telephone companies to block cell phone signals inside prisons where a state of emergency has been declared, in order to prevent gang leaders from ordering murders or extortions while incarcerated.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – Germany’s longest-serving foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, a one-time refugee from the communist East who helped unite his divided homeland, has died at the age of 89.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. employment increased strongly in March, underscoring the economy’s resilience, but an influx of Americans into the labour market could temper nascent wage growth and keep the Federal Reserve cautious about further interest rate increases.
(Trinidad Guardian) Labour Minister Jennifer Baptiste-Primus said yesterday she suspected that over 5,000 people have lost their jobs in the last seven months as T&T continues to go through economic challenges.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The divestment of the Government’s assets in the sugar industry to Chinese investors was expected to result in a turnaround in the fortunes of the ailing sector in Jamaica.
(Trinidad Guardian) An elderly T&T national resident in Canada, who has been returning home every winter for the past several years, was tied up, gagged and beaten to death at his Upper Bournes Road, St James, home sometime between Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador plans to boost prison security and deploy more troops in the streets to battle a rising wave of gang violence that has pushed murder rates to record levels, President Salvador Sanchez Ceren said on Wednesday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition-controlled Congress late on Tuesday approved an amnesty law to free jailed opposition activists and end legal proceedings against others, a measure President Nicolas Maduro promised to veto.
BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The scale of sex trafficking around illegal gold mines in parts of Latin America is “staggering,” and thousands of people working there are prey to labour exploitation by organised crime groups, a think-tank said yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) Brazilian beer giant AmBev has started reshaping Banks Holdings Limited (BHL) in its own image, cutting three members of its top executive management team in the process.
(Jamaica Observer) The Government is to operate the Long Pond Sugar Factory in Trelawny for three months to save cane produced in the parish for this year’s crop.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s largest party announced yesterday it was leaving President Dilma Rousseff’s governing coalition and pulling its members from her government, a departure that sharply raises the odds she could be impeached in a matter of months.
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