Regional News

(Barbados Nation) Barbados’ economy is in deep trouble and the Central Bank’s latest report is signalling more worry about the falling level of vital foreign reserves.

(Trinidad Express) Trinidad and Tobago seems to be losing the battle of the bulge.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The U.S. National Security Agency has targeted most Latin American countries in its spying programs, with Colombia, Venezuela, Brazil and Mexico ranking among those of highest priority for the U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The former security chief at the United States Embassy in Kingston, David Rainsberger, who admitted to accepting bribes from a Jamaican entertainer, was yesterday sentenced to one year in prison.

MIAMI,  (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Chantal strengthened today as it pulled away from the Lesser Antilles and moved into the eastern Caribbean Sea on a path toward Haiti and the Dominican Republic, U.S.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Broadcaster Wayne Whyte and his co-accused, Safari Farr, wept openly in court yesterday as they were sentenced to 14 years’ imprisonment for shooting and injuring media personality Jody-Ann Gray.

(Trinidad Express) Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley was yesterday deemed to be an unfit leader who must tender his resignation in the face of the emailgate controversy.

CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela has arrested five officials and charged them with embezzling $84 million from a China-financed development fund administered by state-run development bank Bandes, President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday.

HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba will begin deregulating state-run companies in 2014 as reform of the Soviet-style command economy moves from retail services and farming into its biggest enterprises, the head of the Communist Party’s reform efforts said.

(Jamaica Gleaner) – There was a major development in one of Vybz Kartel’s murder trials yesterday afternoon.

MIAMI (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Chantal churned across the Atlantic Ocean toward the eastern Caribbean yesterday on a track that would put it over flood-prone Haiti and the Dominican Republic later this week, U.S.

(Barbados Nation) ST. JOHN’S, Antigua – LIAT wishes to advise that due to the impending passage of Tropical Storm Chantal, the St.

BRASILIA,  (Reuters) – The Brazilian government, under pressure to improve public health services, has dropped plans to import a contingent of Cuban doctors and is instead looking to hire physicians in Spain and Portugal, the Health Ministry said today.

MIAMI, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Chantal churned across the Atlantic Ocean toward the eastern Caribbean today on a track that would put it over flood-prone Haiti and the Dominican Republic later this week, U.S.

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Venezuela has arrested five officials and charged them with embezzling $84 million from a China-financed development fund administered by state-run development bank Bandes, President Nicolas Maduro said today.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The Meteorological Service is reporting that Chantal, the third tropical storm for the season has been formed in the Atlantic.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica Labour Party leader Andrew Holness has declared that more than 100 years since the abolition of slavery, nothing much has changed for Jamaican workers.

(Trinidad Express) The e-mails are fake. Based on the documents before him, this statement has come from acting Commissioner of Police Stephen Williams on the 31 e-mails read by Opposition Leader Dr Keith Rowley into the Hansard in Parliament on May 20.

(Trinidad Express) Guyanese national Chadwick McGarrell was jailed for nine months on Wednesday after pleading guilty to two charges of fraud—uttering and possession of fraudulent documents.

(Reuters) – Brazil will demand an explanation from the United States over report its citizens’ electronic communications have been under surveillance by U.S.