WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Only two-and-a-half weeks after US President Barack Obama announced a historic prisoner exchange and re-establishment of long-broken ties with Cuba, his new policy is encountering obstacles that threaten to flare up when Congress returns next week.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s promise to cut spending during a second term that began Thursday got off to a rocky start, as her new planning minister recanted a pledge to change how the country’s minimum wage is calculated.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Priests offering New Year’s prophecies from Cuba’s Afro-Cuban religion urged old Cold War foes Havana and Washington to continue rebuilding relations, and forecast that detente would bring economic benefits in 2015.
(Trinidad Express) DIRECTOR of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Roger Gaspard last night gave the green light to officers of the Professional Standards Bureau to lay two criminal charges against the female Special Reserve Police (SRP) officer who was involved in an incident last Saturday that was captured on video, which showed the officer vigorously pushing Robbie Ramcharitar in a wheelchair down High Street, San Fernando, in oncoming traffic.
(Trinidad Express) A Caribbean Airlines pilot is the country’s first road fatality.
(Jamaica Observer) GREEN PARK, Trelawny — The Trelawny police were on Thursday trying to locate the whereabouts of a suspect in connection with the murder of retired nurse Hyacinth Hayden, who was butchered at her home in this usually peaceful community on New Year’s Eve.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuban performance artist Tania Bruguera was freed yesterday after three back-to-back detentions in three days, and after more than a thousand artists worldwide signed an open letter to Cuban President Raul Castro calling for her release.
(Trinidad Express) A Caribbean Airlines pilot is the country’s first road fatality.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Cuba freed some leading dissidents yesterday after holding them overnight to thwart an unauthorized demonstration in a crackdown that has tested its new detente with the United States.
(Trinidad Express) Robbie Ramcharitar, the man in a wheelchair who was seen in a viral video being slapped and his wheelchair shoved down a busy High Street by two police officers in San Fernando, said yesterday he was hurt and embarrassed by the public beating which has been seen by thousands of people.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro vowed yesterday to reform Venezuela’s Byzantine currency controls in early 2015 as part of a six-month plan to shake Venezuela out of recession, but foes accused him of incompetence and inaction.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The president of Haiti and heads of the country’s two houses of parliament reached a tentative agreement on Monday to avert a political crisis that has sparked nationwide protests.
(Trinidad Express) A video has emerged on Facebook showing a policeman slapping a man in a wheelchair, and a policewoman pushing his wheelchair downhill along a busy street.
(Trinidad Express) A video has emerged on Facebook showing a policeman slapping a man in a wheelchair, and a policewoman pushing his wheelchair downhill along a busy street.
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.
(BBC) – Authorities in Peru have decided to evacuate a remote Amazon community after it was raided by members of an indigenous tribe.
(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) Christmas is not the only time that Government has tried to be generous to the media.
(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.
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