ATLANTA, (Reuters) – Eight former Atlanta public school educators were ordered yesterday to serve between one and seven years in prison, a stiff punishment for their convictions on racketeering charges in one of the nation’s largest test-cheating scandals.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A corruption probe at Brazil’s state-run oil company Petrobras is likely to promote less government intervention and more transparency, economists and analysts said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) The missing luxurious $26,558.68 vibrating executive chair that was purchased for Trinidad and Tobago Electricity Commission (T&TEC) chairman Sushilla Ramkissoon-Mark has been found.
(Trinidad Express) A snake that slithered into the compound WASA’s water treatment plant in North Oropouche triggered a series of events that knocked out the water supply to thousands of people along the east-west corridor and as far south as Manzanilla.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Cuba and the United States just made history.
PANAMA CITY (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama said yesterday that Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff will visit Washington on June 30, raising hopes of closer ties that could increase trade between the two biggest economies in the Americas.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Port Authority of Jamaica will receive an upfront payment of US$75 million equivalent to the value of the equipment at Kingston Container Terminal (KCT), which are to be handed over to the new concessionaire Kingston Freeport Terminal Limited for operation.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Young leaders from across Jamaica and the Caribbean were elated at United States President Barack Obama’s announced US$70 million investment in their development – through education, training and employment – revealed on Thursday at the youth leaders town hall held in the Assembly Hall at the University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona campus.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago’s Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar, has said she is very concerned about the threat of terrorism, not only for her country, but for the entire Caribbean region.
KINGSTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama yesterday unveiled a major clean energy partnership at a Caribbean summit where he sought to reassert U.S.
(Trinidad Express) In her ‘apology’ to the Parliament yesterday in the wake of the furore over her ‘rape’ remarks, Minister Vernella Alleyne-Toppin placed the blame on “ media reports” of her controversial statements, rather than on the statements themselves.
(Trinidad Express) Shoppers went scampering for safety yesterday afternoon when the proprietor of a business place, along Southern Main Road, Curepe, was gunned down in broad daylight.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – In a rare challenge to Cuba’s political system from within, two government opponents are on the ballot for upcoming elections, only to find that officials have altered their biographies to portray them as dangers to the revolution.
(Jamaica Observer) Preparations for this week’s visit of US President Barack Obama have triggered anger among street vendors in sections of the capital city as their stalls have been destroyed.
(Trinidad Express) THE 12 police officers allegedly involved in pouring hot water on a detained suspect at the Sangre Grande Police Station in late February, and who were arrested by officers of the Professional Standards Bureau last Sunday, were granted station bail on Friday night.
(Trinidad Express) The 12 police officers allegedly involved in pouring hot water on a detained suspect at Sangre Grande Police Station in late February, and arrested by officers of the Professional Standards Bureau, last Sunday were charged last night following instructions issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), according to reliable police sources.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Former Cuban President Fidel Castro, 88, appeared in public “full of vitality” for the first time in more than a year on Monday, greeting a delegation of Venezuelans, official media reported yesterday.
LIMOEIRO DO NORTE, Brazil (Reuters) – The farmers of Brazil have become the world’s top exporters of sugar, orange juice, coffee, beef, poultry and soybeans.
(Trinidad Express) THE 12 police officers allegedly involved in pouring hot water on a detained suspect at Sangre Grande Police Station in late February, and arrested by officers of the Professional Standards Bureau, last Sunday were charged last night following instructions issued by the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP), according to reliable police sources.
(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO—The Swiss based Amazone Resources has been granted a concession for 40 years to export fresh water.
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