Regional News

(Trinidad Express) Florida-based outsourcing firm iQor has expanded its operations in Trinidad and Tobago with the launch of a call centre at Tamana InTech Park.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of demonstrators returned to the streets in dozens of Brazilian cities yesterday to call for the impeachment of President Dilma Rousseff, blaming her for a vast corruption scandal and the economy’s worst slump in a quarter century.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Josefina Vidal receives a check from the United States for $4,085 once a year, rent money for the U.S.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry called for political change in Cuba yesterday, telling Cubans they should be free to choose their own leaders, as he watched the U.S.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Reports of shortages of cancer medicines in Venezuela are worrisome, a doctor representing the World Health Organization’s Americas arm in the scarcity-hit country said in a rare interview this week.

BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Nearly one million people in Guatemala are struggling to feed themselves as poor rainfall has led to drought and shrunken harvests, worsening hunger among the poor, the U.N.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – More defendants are negotiating and signing plea bargain deals in a massive bribery case focused on Brazil’s state-run oil firm Petrobras as federal prosecutors prepare charges against higher-profile suspects, including politicians.

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Retired Cuban President Fidel Castro celebrated his 89th birthday yesterday with two of his country’s closest leftist allies from Latin America, a day ahead of a historic visit by the U.S.

Republic Bank Ltd (RBL) of Trinidad and Tobago yesterday suspended the sale of all foreign currency at its branches.

CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s popularity fell to 24.3 percent in July, hurt by voracious inflation and shortages of goods ranging from spare parts to shampoo, according to respected local pollster Datanalisis.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two minors were remanded into prison custody on Wednesday after they appeared in court charged with the unlawful killing of an 11-year-old boy who was shot dead while they were playing with a loaded shotgun. The

(Trinidad Express) Tragedy struck the Seecharan family again on Wednesday when Sherry Ann Seecharan was found dead.

The TT$500 million National Academy for the Performing Arts (NAPA) in Port of Spain has to be completely shut down, says Arts and Multiculturalism Minister Dr Lincoln Douglas, the Trinidad Express reported last night.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two minors were remanded into prison custody yesterday after they appeared in court charged with the unlawful killing of an 11-year-old boy who was shot dead while they were playing with a loaded shotgun. The

PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – Desi Bouterse, a former military ruler convicted of drug trafficking in the Netherlands, was sworn in for a second five-year term as president of Suriname yesterday.

SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said yesterday she would not consider quitting despite calls for her impeachment from opponents in Congress as the economy sinks and her popularity hits record lows.

(Barbados Nation) The Barbados government has been left with a more than Bds$800 000 bill from its hosting of the three-day Caricom Heads of Government meeting last month.

(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines yesterday remained non-committal on whether it was withdrawing its London service from next year.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The biggest threat to Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s hold on office may come not from a corruption scandal that has ensnared the country’s business and political elite but from a less-heralded probe into accounting practices led by a computer science graduate turned lawyer.

(Trinidad Guardian) The T&T Police Service (TTPS) has signed a multi-million dollar deal with a firm to equip all police officers with some of the latest and hi-tech guns to even the playing field against the criminal element.