BUENOS AIRES (Reu-ters) – Argentinian Presi-dent Cristina Fernandez has cancelled a trip to the Vatican in January and suspended official events next month after fracturing her ankle during the Christmas holiday period, the government said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) – Citizens who say the redesigned $50 note is evil are engaging in acts of divisiveness, Minister in the Ministry of Finance and the Economy Rudranath Indarsingh said on Sunday.
(Trinidad Express) Two of the photos bearing the face of Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar wishing the nation “a Merry Christmas and a bright and prosperous new year” were removed yesterday from the billboards on which they were placed.
(Trinidad Express) A High Court judge who as a prosecutor represented the State in the historic 2006 case against former Chief Justice Sat Sharma has now been accused of misconduct.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar’s Christmas messages on billboards across the country continue to draw criticism from some sectors of society.
CARACAS (Reuters) – An ice-cream store listed in the Guinness World Records book for its 863 different flavours has become the latest victim of Venezuela’s economic crisis.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Managers of Jamaican Grammy Award-winning dancehall entertainer, Sean Paul, were yesterday still contemplating how to respond to death threats issued this week against the artiste by an extremist group in The Maldives, Asia.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro named powerful Foreign Minister Rafael Ramirez to a new post as envoy to the United Nations yesterday, saying the appointment would strengthen Venezuela’s voice on the world body’s Security Council from Jan.
(Trinidad Guardian) Instead of smelling freshly baked bread and ham coming out of their ovens, members of the South Oropouche fishing community spent Christmas covering their noses from the stench of oil washing ashore. Just
(Trinidad Express) The phone call that Assistant Commissioner of Police (ACP) for Tobago Peter Reyes took while the aircraft was taxiing before the flight from Trinidad to Tobago was to give directions to have a refrigerator delivered to his home in Tobago.
(Reuters) – A technician at the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention may have been exposed to the deadly Ebola virus due to a laboratory error, the New York Times reported yesterday, citing federal officials.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s decision to end five decades of enmity with Cuba has shaken the island’s political dissidents, dividing their ranks and forcing them to rethink tactics.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan shoppers line up outside a Caracas liquor store to buy bottles of Buchanan’s 12-year Scotch whisky at half the usual cost, a deal made possible by a state subsidy that gave cheap dollars to import them.
SANTA FE, Argentina, (Reuters) – A laboratory in the Argentine farm province of Santa Fe has developed what it calls the first prosthetic arm in Latin America to use sensors to respond to nerve impulses at a price that could radically expand the use of such devices.