BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A measure that reduces the cost of social welfare benefits narrowly cleared the lower chamber of Brazil’s Congress last night in a tense victory for President Dilma Rousseff’s efforts to cut a fiscal deficit and restore investor confidence.
(Trinidad Guardian) People’s National Movement (PNM) leader Keith Rowley has been referred to Parliament’s Privileges Committee by House Speaker Wade Mark, over allegations recently made by Rowley against Finance Minister Larry Howai.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A measure that reduces the cost of social welfare benefits narrowly cleared the lower chamber of Brazil’s Congress last night in a tense victory for President Dilma Rousseff’s efforts to cut a fiscal deficit and restore investor confidence.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Cuban government will send a 48-member medical team including 22 doctors to Nepal in response to the April 25 earthquake that killed more than 7,600 people, official Cuban media said yesterday, citing Health Ministry officials.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court ordered another engineering executive released from jail on Wednesday, complicating prosecutors’ efforts to expand a corruption investigation at state-run oil firm Petroleo Brasileiro SA .
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba unveiled new data yesterday it said confirmed there were billions of barrels of oil beneath its Gulf of Mexico waters but admitted there was little interest in new exploration even with the thaw in U.S.
(Trinidad Express) Today the House of Representatives begins debate on a motion of no confidence which, once passed, will lead to the suspension of Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley “from the services of the Parliament”.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Recent setbacks for prosecutors in a huge corruption scheme at Brazil’s state-run oil company Petroleo Brasileiro SA suggest they will struggle to win as many convictions as they seek.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department yesterday approved licences for passenger ferry service between the United States and Cuba, a Treasury Department official told Reuters.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s supreme court on Monday set a trial date later this month for ex-dictator Manuel Noriega in a case alleging that the former strongman was involved in the kidnapping and murder of a political opponent in 1970.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has agreed to a debate with Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley.
(Trinidad Express) – The bells of the Trinity Cathedral tolled the notes of the hymn Amazing Grace on Sunday as the first death anniversary of murdered senior counsel Dana Seetahal was observed with renewed calls for justice.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Federal prosecutors in Brazil have opened a preliminary investigation into whether former president Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva improperly used his connections to benefit construction conglomerate Odebrecht SA overseas.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago has suffered a big blow to its status as the place to invest in the Caribbean after international agency Moody’s downgraded the country’s credit rating from stable to negative.
(Trinidad Express) Moody’s Investors Service, the credit rating agency that conducts international financial research on bonds issued by commercial and government entities on Thursday downgraded Trinidad and Tobago’s government bond rating, and issuer rating to Baa2 from Baa1 and changed the outlook to negative from stable.
(Trinidad Express) Cabinet on Thursday agreed to contribute US $150,000 (almost TT $1 million) to the emergency appeal of the International Federation of the Red Cross to provide vital aid to earthquake stricken Nepal.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bisssessar said Wednesday that despite projections that this country’s budget would have been in a deficit of billions of dollars, figures at the end of this half of this fiscal year, shows a surplus.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – After finally turning the page on a dispute over spying that hampered attempts to deepen trade ties, Brazil and the United States may be headed for another clash, this time over U.S.
WASHINGTON/KINGSTON, (Reuters) – An American woman arrested last month for trying to travel to Syria to join the militant group Islamic State was in touch with an Islamist preacher in Jamaica, a federal law enforcement official said.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – The former head of Colombia’s intelligence service was sentenced to 14 years in prison yesterday for spying on opposition lawmakers, judges and journalists in one of the biggest scandals to mar the government of ex-President Alvaro Uribe.
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