(Trinidad Express) AN application for a habeas corpus writ to have nine members of a Canadian ultra-Orthodox Jewish sect released from detention in Trinidad and Tobago was yesterday dismissed by a High Court judge in Port of Spain.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Followers of late socialist leader Hugo Chavez flooded the streets of Venezuela yesterday for the anniversary of his death, an emotional but welcome distraction for his successor from violent protests raging for the last month.
(Trinidad Express) In the ultimate act of selflessness a 26-year-old Tabaquite man died on Monday, after rescuing two children from drowning in Mayaro.
(Trinidad Express) All the soca songs say wine down low and jam on a bumper, and while masqueraders eagerly follow these instructions, Port of Spain Mayor Raymond Tim Kee finds their behaviour “vulgar and reprehensible”.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Jailed Venezuelan opposition leader Leopoldo Lopez urged sympathizers yesterday to maintain street protests against President Nicolas Maduro as the country’s foreign minister prepared to meet the United Nations Secretary General.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Politically motivated arrests in Cuba topped 1,000 for a third straight month in February as the result of wider public demonstrations against the one-party state, a leading human rights organisation said yesterday.
(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – President Desi Bouterse has ordered an investigation to find out the real extent of the expenses made for Carifesta XI.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – While many Venezuelans went to the beach to enjoy the Carnival holiday, thousands of anti-government demonstrators marched in the capital yesterday, trying to keep up the momentum from weeks of protests demanding President Nicolas Maduro resign.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A man has been arrested and over J$10 million worth of ganja seized following a two-day operation by the police at the Kingston Container Terminal in the capital city.
(Barbados Nation) CLICO policyholders may be getting a dream offer from a North American firm, which wants to buy all of the assets of Clico International Life (CIL) Insurance Limited and repay the principal sums to the policyholders and investors in Barbados and the Eastern Caribbean.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Opposition Spokesman on Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Edmund Bartlett is urging the Government to address concerns by some Jamaicans that a heavy Chinese economic infusion into Jamaica could negatively affect the country’s sovereignty.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela said yesterday its foreign minister will meet United Nations Secretary General Ban Ki-moon in Geneva on Tuesday amid growing international calls for dialogue between political players to ease the OPEC nation’s worst unrest in a decade.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Anti-government protests in Venezuela have left some 1,500 trucks that distribute about half the country’s vegetables sitting idle in the western city of La Grita, waiting for roads blocked by demonstrators to be re-opened.
HAVANA, Feb 28 (Reuters) – Cuban President Raul Castro and top leaders of the Cuban government and Com-munist Party greeted a Cuban intelligence agent with a hero’s welcome upon his return to Havana on Friday, a day after his release from a U.S.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s FARC rebels asked for the United States to join its peace talks with the Colombian government, saying yesterday it would speed up the process because Washington was making all the important decisions anyway.
(de Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO – Minister of Foreign Affairs, Winston Lackin, at a press briefing yesterday, presented a much weaker version of the harsh words uttered by President Desi Bouterse on Tuesday.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court overturned racketeering convictions against former leaders of the ruling Workers Party yesterday, reducing their prison sentences in the country’s biggest political corruption case.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelans began a week-long national holiday yesterday as some protests still simmered, but President Nicolas Maduro’s government was hoping the break would take the heat out of the nation’s worst unrest in a decade.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – One month ago, Henrique Capriles was Venezuela’s undisputed opposition leader, espousing a vision of dialogue and measured dissent towards the socialist government.
(De Ware Tijd) PARAMARIBO — Kaloti Jewelry International is likely involved in doubtful gold transactions.
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