BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s opposition parties yesterday filed a request in Congress to impeach President Dilma Rousseff for breaking fiscal rules by allegedly manipulating government finances to benefit her re-election last year.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba yesterday launched its annual campaign for a United Nations resolution condemning the US economic embargo while the White House and the Vatican added their own pressure on the US Congress to end the 53-year-old sanctions.
(Trinidad Guardian) – A family which was preparing to celebrate a 96th birthday today was thrown into mourning when 2-year-old Gonzales schoolboy Yakini Charles was shot and killed on his way home from school.
(Trinidad Guardian) A family which was preparing to celebrate one of their own’s 96th birthday tomorrow were thrown into mourning when one of their younger ones, 12-year-old Gonzales schoolboy Yakini Charles was shot and killed on his way home from school.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos said yesterday there had been important gestures made from Venezuela that could help facilitate a meeting with its President Nicolas Maduro in a bid to end a dispute between the two governments.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Cuban Presi-dent Raul Castro is set to address the UN General Assembly this month, the United Nations announced yesterday, the first time the Cuban leader will visit the United States as the island nation’s head of state.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – The Ministry of Health says it has activated its emergency protocols in response to high levels of absenteeism by registered nurses in the public sector.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – A Kingston man is now in police custody for allegedly defrauding two policemen after he collected money from them to buy firearms but failed to deliver.
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The United Nations urged Venezuela yesterday to prevent human rights abuses of Colombians being deported from the country, including the separation of children from their parents, in a simmering border crisis between the two neighbours.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Another Venezuelan military airplane flew into Colombian airspace without permission on Sunday, the head of Colombia’s air force said, the second such incident over the weekend that threatens to further complicate relations between the two countries.
(Trinidad Guardian) The usually quiet coastal town of Icacos, Cedros, descended into chaos on Saturday night, after gunmen opened fire outside a party, killing two people and wounding six others.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff has one last chance to stem a growing political and economic crisis before being forced to step down, one of the country’s leading daily newspapers said yesterday.
(Reuters) – Max Gesner Beauvoir, the “Ati” or supreme leader of voodoo, Haiti’s traditional Afro-Caribbean religion, died at the age of 79, his family said.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia has asked for an explanation from Venezuela after detecting two military airplanes that flew into its airspace late on Saturday, the defense ministry said.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuban police detained about 50 people when a predominantly Roman Catholic dissident group led a march in Havana yesterday, less than a week before Pope Francis visits the communist-ruled country.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Barclays Plc confirmed Thursday that the UK bank has removed Jamaicans from its client rolls, saying that a new initiative to close out accounts for those having Jamaican addresses was in line with its push to reduce risk and shore up core business.
(Trinidad Guardian) It is not possible to get to the Bahamas from T&T much more quickly with the introduction of new flight schedules, Caribbean Airlines (CAL) CEO, Michael DiLollo said yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela accused the United States yesterday of jeopardizing a nascent rapprochement between the two ideological foes with “insolent” criticism of a 14-year jail sentence handed to opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez.
(Trinidad Guardian) Twenty-one new Government Ministers and one Parliament Secretary were sworn into office yesterday morning as the new Cabinet for People’s National Movement administration.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Police are seeking permission to question former Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva in a political kickback scheme, the country’s Supreme Court said, in the sharpest sign yet that the popular politician could be dragged into the widening scandal.
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