SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Two police officers were killed and four wounded yesterday in the western Venezuelan city of San Cristobal after they were hit by a bus driven by young men protesting a hike in public transport fares, according to government officials and Reuters witnesses.
(Barbados Nation) SANDALS RESORT’S love affair with Barbados is about to blossom in a huge way.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s largest party will decide today to break away from President Dilma Rousseff’s floundering coalition, party leaders said, sharply raising the odds she will be impeached amid a corruption scandal.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Retired leader Fidel Castro accused US President Barack Obama of sweet-talking the Cuban people during his visit to the island last week and ignoring the accomplishments of Communist rule, in an opinion piece carried by all state-run media yesterday.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A man suspected of laundering money for jailed drug kingpin Joaquin “El Chapo” Guzman was detained in southwestern Mexico, and faces extradition to the United States, Mexican authorities said on Sunday.
(Trinidad Guardian) In the underground world of narcotics he was called “Total” because anything he did, he did to the maximum. “I
(Trinidad Guardian) Official minutes from an executive meeting which took place at the Prison’s Administration Building, Phillip Street, Port-of-Spain, on January 27, 2015, has revealed that prisons officials were aware of plans for a jail break by inmates at the Port-of-Spain prison.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The Brazilian Democratic Movement Party (PMDB) is already working on policies including sweeping welfare cuts should their coalition partner President Dilma Rousseff be impeached and it formed the new government, a newspaper said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Official minutes from an executive meeting which took place at the Prison’s Administration Building, Phillip Street, Port-of-Spain, on January 27, 2015, has revealed that prisons officials were aware of plans for a jail break by inmates at the Port-of-Spain prison.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – A Venezuelan man who was caught trying to leave the island with more than US$83,000 or just over J$10 million has pleaded guilty to a number of criminal charges.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Jamaica’s Minister of Foreign Affairs Senator Kamina Johnson Smith has reacted to reports that a group of Jamaicans were allegedly ill-treated by immigration officers in Trinidad and Tobago after they were denied entry into the twin-island republic.
A 24-year-old student has been charged with drug trafficking. Canadian national Brittany Chelsea Kotler has been charged with possession of six kilos of cannabis, possession with intent to supply, trafficking and importation.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 52-year-old former Republic Bank Ltd employee, who developed an incurable respiratory disease after being exposed to paint fumes following renovation works at one of the bank’s two branches in Tunapuna, will now receive a little over TT$2.5 million in compensation after the bank withdrew its appeal against the payout.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Grantley Adams International Airport in Barbados has been forced to close because of protest action by air traffic controllers.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A former Jamaican beauty pageant contestant was yesterday arrested after trying to smuggle seventy pounds of cocaine through security at the Los Angeles International Airport in California.
(Trinidad Guardian) Horrified by news that their teacher Keston Mahabir had been abducted in broad daylight, students of Keston’s Educational Institute wept yesterday as they waited on news about his whereabouts.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Education and Information Minister Ruel Reid says the Government is moving swiftly to try to keep the ailing sugar industry afloat as the Chinese-owned Pan Caribbean Sugar Company Limited signals that it will close its operations in Jamaica by June.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday championed Argentina’s new center-right leader Mauricio Macri as an example for other countries in Latin America, praising the fast pace of reforms to strengthen the economy.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – More than 2 million Brazilians are set to lose unemployment benefits by June, data obtained by Reuters show, threatening to erode support for embattled President Dilma Rousseff among her core working class supporters when she needs them most.
(Trinidad Guardian) A protection order is not just a simple piece of paper.
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