WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The White House announced its intention yesterday to establish refugee processing in Honduras, El Salvador and Guatemala to try to deter unaccompanied children from resorting to crossing the US-Mexico border on their own.
(Reuters) – The World Bank arbitration tribunal will give its final award ruling this week on a multibillion- dollar claim by Exxon Mobil Corp against Venezuela over the 2007 nationalization of two oil projects, legal sources said yesterday.
Jamaica will be able to export mangoes to the US come January.
OTTAWA (Reuters) – A little-known Canadian federal agency helped put in place C$215.7 million ($194 million) worth of deals for firms in Cuba over a four-year period, including some for Cy Tokmakjian, the businessman jailed for corruption in Havana last week.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Argentina is in contempt of court, a US judge ruled yesterday, the latest step in a years-old case brought by the US hedge funds over defaulted debt.
(Trinidad Express) Chairman of Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) Gerald Yetming did not disclose that his son, Gerard Yetming, was employed at commercial real estate firm CBRE, which was hired to sell the W Fort Lauderdale hotel in the United States.
HAVANA (Reuters) – A Cuban court has sentenced Canadian executive Cy Tokmakjian to 15 years in prison for bribery and other economic charges in a chilling development for potential foreign investors, his company, the Tokmakjian Group, said yesterday.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba has aborted plans to develop fragrances in honour of the late revolutionary hero Ernesto “Che” Guevara and former Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez, calling the project disrespectful of two “sacred” revolutionary symbols.
(Trinidad Express) FOUR POLICE officers allegedly involved in robbing a Chinese couple of half a million dollars at their Bon Air, Arouca, home about two weeks ago were taken into police custody yesterday morning.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba will send nearly 300 more doctors and nurses to West Africa to help combat the Ebola virus, raising to 461 the number of its medical professionals joining world efforts to contain an outbreak that has killed more than 3,000 people.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – President Michelle Bachelet of Chile enacted new environmental tax legislation yesterday making the country the first in South America to tax carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions.
(Trinidad Express) East Port of Spain was last night transformed into a scene reminiscent of a modern war movie, with the ringing of periodic gunfire in-between the sound of helicopters and orders being barked by heavily armed soldiers and policemen.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar says the “decriminalisation of homosexuality” in Trinidad and Tobago is not something her administration will seek to do because, “it would not be prudent for the Government to proceed in that direction at this time”.
(Trinidad Express) At least 50 Trinidadians have flown to Syria to join the terrorist organisation Islamic State of Iraq and Syria (ISIS) within the last several months.
(Barbados Nation) – A seaman who entered the Bridgetown Port with over 26 pounds of marijuana on Tuesday, hidden aboard a tug will know his fate come October 24.
(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — After four years of absence of a Surinamese ambassador in the Netherlands it is time for a change.
CARACAS (Reuters) – The Venezuelan government has started to fingerprint shoppers at some state-run supermarkets, in a plan to combat food scarcity which has been derided by some consumers weary of shortages.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuban President Raul Castro granted more authority to the man who has led the campaign to modernize Cuba’s socialist economy, naming Marino Murillo as economy and planning minister yesterday, the government said.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA will be allowed to sell dollars for local currency at the most advantageous of the country’s three official exchange rates, the central bank said on Thursday, a move that could help ease the company’s cash-flow problems.
(Trinidad Express) – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar attended a meeting of the 15-member United Nations (UN) Security Council which was open to UN member states which do not belong to the council.
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