LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivian President Evo Morales acknowledged defeat in a referendum that would have cleared the way for him to run for a fourth term in 2019, saying in a speech yesterday that he would respect the decision of the people.
SAO PAULO/LIMA, (Reuters) – Brazilian police have uncovered evidence that Peruvian President Ollanta Humala may have received $3 million in bribes from engineering and construction conglomerate Odebrecht, according to federal court filings in Brazil.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The architect of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s 2010 and 2014 campaigns, João Santana, landed in Brazil from the Dominican Republic yesterday and was taken in a police jet to the city of Curitiba, the epicentre of a massive corruption probe, his spokesman said.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba’s tourism boom continues at a record pace but is expected to cool off during 2016 with the government forecasting nearly 6 percent growth this year after a 17 percent increase in 2015.
(Trinidad Guardian) After mother of two, Abiola Noel, and her on-again off-again boyfriend, Andre La Touche, had been shot in Laventille yesterday, their killers spent a few moments peering at them as they lay dying in order to satisfy themselves that the job had been done.
SAO PAULO/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian police said they issued an arrest warrant for President Dilma Rousseff’s campaign manager yesterday, complicating her fight to survive an investigation into her re-election in 2014 and stave off impeachment by Congress.
HAVANA (Reuters) – President Raul Castro called on all Cubans to help eradicate the mosquitoes that carry the Zika virus yesterday and ordered 9,000 army troops to help stave off the disease.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil is planning to fight the Zika virus by zapping millions of male mosquitoes with gamma rays to sterilize them and stop the spread of the virus linked to thousands of birth defects.
(Trinidad Express) The lives of two families were forever changed on Saturday night when a tragic accident claimed the lives of 30-year-old, Jillian Amala St Bernard and 23-year-old Aleem Akaloo.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – General Motors Co will reconsider plans for new investment in Brazil if the economic and political situation does not improve, the company’s president Dan Ammann said in an interview published on Sunday.
(Trinidad Guardian) A National Gas Company (NGC) sub-contractor was found dead at her home on Friday afternoon by her husband, stabbed several times about the body.
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis yesterday called for the worldwide abolition of the death penalty, saying the commandment “You shall not kill” was absolute and equally valid for the guilty as for the innocent.
(Trinidad Guardian) A National Gas Company (NGC) sub-contractor was found dead at her home on Friday afternoon by her husband, stabbed several times about the body.
(Trinidad Guardian) There may be widespread fear about the Zika virus among some 17,000 pregnant women in T&T who may be at risk due to the virus, now in T&T, Opposition MP Dr Tim Gopeesingh said in Parliament yesterday.
(Reuters) – U.S. and Brazilian researchers are heading to João Pessoa in the state of Paraíba on Monday to recruit mothers and babies in one of the biggest government-led studies to understand whether the Zika virus is linked to microcephaly, a rare birth defect.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Repsol SA discovered 4 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of possible natural gas reserves in Bolivia that it will start tapping in 2019, the government and company said yesterday – a finding that could boost the Andean country’s reserves by 40 percent.
(Trinidad Guardian) Energy Minister Nicole Olivierre says all but one of the 137 service stations in this country are operating illegally and the state will give operators of these businesses six months to regularise their status.
WASHINGTON/HAVANA, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with dissidents when he makes a historic visit to Cuba next month, the White House said yesterday, but Republicans complained that the trip would only lend legitimacy to the island’s Communist government.
(Trinidad Guardian) Fears that the rapidly spreading Zika virus would hit the shores of T&T materialised yesterday when Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh announced T&T’s first confirmed case. Careful
(Trinidad Express) Prakash Ramadhar has resigned as political leader of the Congress of the People (COP).
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