BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentine President-elect Mauricio Macri named former JP Morgan executive and ex-central bank chief Alfonso Prat-Gay his finance minister yesterday in a sign that he will move quickly to restore the bank’s autonomy and free up the economy.
(Trinidad Guardian) The State is moving to deem a Trinidadian convicted in the United States a terrorist and obtain a freezing order of his assets and any transaction done on his behalf.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian police investigating corruption around state-run oil firm Petrobras also plan to probe more than $10 billion of construction contracts for the 2016 Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, a lead investigator said.
(Barbados Nation) Trinidadian Zahra Gomes is the latest recipient of the Commonwealth Caribbean Rhodes Scholarship.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian federal police on Tuesday arrested businessman and rancher Jose Carlos Bumlai, a friend of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, for suspected fraud in a drillship contract with state-run oil firm Petrobras.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s environmental assets exchange BVRio yesterday launched an app that promises to help foreign traders and buyers of Brazilian timber make sure the product hasn’t been illegally logged.
(Trinidad Guardian) Relatives of Brian Smith, whose body was fished out from sea on Sunday morning, last night burnt tyres and caused major traffic gridlock along the Western Main Road as they claimed the 30-year-old was killed by regiment officers and called for justice.
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – President-elect Mauricio Macri vowed yesterday to get Argen-tina’s stalled economy moving again but refrained from laying out specific measures until he gets to know the “real” state of the nation’s accounts.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – A 5.5 magnitude quake hit Mexico City yesterday, according to the US Geological Survey (USGS), shaking buildings and forcing office towers to be evacuated, although there were no initial reports of damage or injuries.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentina’s President-Elect, Mauricio Macri, said today he would seek Venezuela’s suspension from South America’s Mercosur trade bloc because of accusations of rights abuses committed by President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government.
UENOS AIRES, (Reu-ters) – Conservative opposition candidate Mauricio Macri won Argentina’s presidential election yesterday after promising business-friendly reforms to spur investment in the struggling economy.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition said yesterday shots were fired at one of its candidates’ campaign caravan in a poor neighborhood of Caracas amid rising national tensions over next month’s parliamentary election.
(Trinidad Express) Low energy prices have forced the National Gas Company (NGC) to freeze all salaries and benefits to staff for the rest of 2015 and 2016.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Governments worldwide have no hope of combatting modern day slavery unless credible data is collected on the hidden crime so victims can be identified and helped, a leading campaigner said.
TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran police arrested a Syrian woman and two Pakistani men yesterday after determining they were travelling illegally and presumably en route to the United States, authorities said.
(Barbados Nation) The slogan on its trucks screams Grab An Ice Cold Banks Beer, but the battle for ownership of parent company Banks Holdings Limited (BHL) was anything but cold by sunset on Thursday.
(Barbados Nation) A win-win situation. That is how Leader of the Senate Maxine McClean has described the move by the Freundel Stuart administration to borrow Bds$240 million from the Export-Import Bank of China to help fund the redevelopment of Sam Lord’s Castle.
(Jamaica Observer) A recommendation by Opposition Senator Dr Christopher Tufton that a bipartisan committee be established and given a timeline of 12 months to hammer out differing views on the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has been accepted by the Government.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said on Wednesday he had ordered an investigation into allegations that the U.S.
(Barbados Nation) Government is borrowing Bds$240 million from the Export-Import Bank of China to help fund the redevelopment of the 450-room Sam Lord’s Castle in St Philip.
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