- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Kaieteur NewsRose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTY&SC) Selection Committee has named their two teams that will contest the Club’s Silver Jubilee Anniversary Ansa McAl sponsored May Day 5-overs tournament at the Area ‘H’ ground. All the actio...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneBrazil’s Embraer, the world’s fourth-largest plane manufacturer, said on Thursday that it delivered 32 aircraft during the first quarter, including 20 commercial airliners.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneMoroccan authorities banned the popular but controversial French comedian Dieudonne from performing his upcoming act in Casablanca, according to Moroccan media on Thursday.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneSpain is proposing “opening a new phase of greater intensity” in economic and trade relations with Cuba, in the current situation of a developing rapprochement between the communist island and the United States, and the opportunities tha...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneFederal and state authorities arrested 21 suspected members of a criminal organization that operated in Valle Hermoso, a city in the northeastern Mexican state of Tamaulipas, the Tamaulipas Coordination Group said.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Latin America News DispatchPhoto illustration by Cleuci de Oliveira; photograph of Alberto Nisman via The Wall Street Journal, screenshot; photograph of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner via Graciela A. Dal Zovo, Picasa BUENOS AIRES — The mysterious circumstances und...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneSpain’s ambassador to the United States, Ramon Gil Casares, next week will turn over to a U.S. library the 13-volume work prepared between 1976 and 1985 by the Spanish Foreign Ministry on documents in Spanish archives linked to American ...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneThe Jamaican government expects to sign on Monday a $5 billion Memorandum of Understanding with two foreign companies to develop logistics-related infrastructure projects.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneAt least 37 tons of dead fish have been removed over the past week from this Brazilian metropolis’ Rodrigo de Freitas lagoon, one of the venues for the 2016 Rio Olympics, officials said Thursday.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneRodrigo Rato, a former Spanish deputy prime minister and one-time head of the IMF, was taken into custody on Thursday after prosecutors charged him with fraud and asset laundering.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Kaieteur NewsNPG B’ball off to bumpy start … The inaugural NPG Packaging first division Basketball competition got off to a not too enterprising start with Rose Hall Jammers of Corentyne gaining a walkover from Hopetown Stealers in their schedu...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneA sister-in-law of the now-former treasurer of Brazil’s ruling Workers’ Party, or PT, who was arrested this week in connection with a massive bribery scandal centered on state-controlled oil giant Petrobras, was declared a fugitive on Th...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Kaieteur NewsThe Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) is calling on the People’s Progressive Party to stop its political fear campaign which is a threat to the peace of this nation. The call comes in the wake of statements by Cabinet Secretary Dr. Rog...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from MercoPressThe Permanent Under-Secretary (PUS) at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office, Sir Simon Fraser, will step down after five years in the role and leave HM Diplomatic Service at the end of July 2015. He was appointed PUS, taking over from Sir...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Guyana Chronicle » TOP STORYINTERNATIONAL and local business tycoons, members of the diplomatic corps and a number of Government officials yesterday joined Head of State Donald Ramotar, and Ms. Brenda Durham, Senior Vice-President and Regional General Counsel for M...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from MercoPressArgentina's Secretary for Malvinas Islands Affairs, Daniel Filmus will be giving a conference on Friday in London on the Falkland Islands sovereignty dispute with the UK and the current round of oil drilling offshore the Islands, in what...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Kaieteur NewsIn yesterday’s edition in the article ‘Rookies category to return’ we inadvertently stated that the rookies will be rewarded financially by sponsor A&R Jiwanram. However, it was brought to our attention that it would be the Group 1 d...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Colombia News | Colombia Reports
Civilian organizations from the southwest of Colombia have called for a bilateral ceasefire after five civilians were killed in what appeared a spike in violence following a FARC attack that Full Article » The post Cauca in cr... - Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneFormer England national team coach Fabio Capello said on Thursday that Chelsea captain and defender John Terry should return to play for England because he is “one of the best.”
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Argentina NewsThe man who could be Argentina's next president wants to put an end to tight government currency controls, make peace with the nation's creditors and improve severely frayed ties to the United States. In short, Mauricio Macri is promisin...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Kaieteur News
ESPNcricinfo – England toiled hard to extract two of the ten wickets they hunted for victory in the opening Test on a dying surface, gaining a huge lift late in the day courtesy of a breathtaking slip catch from Chris Jordan, after... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Kaieteur NewsOld Fort and the National Under-21 selection battled to a nil-all stalemate on Wednesday, at the GCC ground, Bourda in the penultimate match of the 2014 season. While pool leaders GCC with 12 points remain out of reach of all opposition,...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Kaieteur News
- Five overseas-based players for women’s team By Edison Jefford The Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF) scored some crucial points yesterday when John Fernandes Limited dished an assist that will fund the return of United States... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Kaieteur NewsCompetition in the A. Ally & Sons Inter Secondary School Under-17 cricket competition organised by the Berbice Cricket Board resumed recently after a break for the Easter Holidays. Rosignol’s medium pacer Javed Karim turned in a matc...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Kaieteur News
A fundraiser for the children of assassinated political activist, Courtney Crum-Ewing, is currently being facilitated by this publication. The fundraiser was spurred by several persons both here and in the Diaspora calling on this public... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from Kaieteur News
Some 101 students from the Shotokan Karate-Do of Guyana (ShokoGuy) were graded on Saturday April 4th at the National Gymnasium, Mandela Avenue. At the commencement of the grading, Chief Instructor Sensei Chaves introduced the internation... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from MercoPressThe former director of the International Monetary Fund (IMF), Spaniard Rodrigo Rato, has been detained by police in Madrid. Rato, who has also been Economy Minister during Spanish President José María Aznar’s administration, is accused o...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneThe prime minister of Dominica, Roosevelt Skerrit, said on Thursday that Washington needs to re-define its approach to the Caribbean.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneThe burned bodies of five men and a woman were found inside a vehicle in north-central Aragua state, according to the Venezuelan Public Ministry on Thursday.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from MercoPressThe World Medical Association has supported the increasing number of countries planning to introduce plain packaging of tobacco products, including Australia and France. This week it joined the Norwegian Medical Association in supporting...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Kaieteur News
By Zaheer Mohamed All-rounder Sherfene Rutherford grabbed three quick wickets in the final session to lead Demerara fight back against the National Under-17 team when the third and final round of the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB)/Raj Singh ... - Friday, April 17, 2015 from BBC News - Latin America & CaribbeanTonnes of dead fish are being removed from a lake in the centre of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, which is due to host rowing and canoeing events at the 2016 Olympic Games.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from South America*Major court decisions expected this year- Gold Reserve. CARACAS, April 16-- Gold Reserve Inc, a small Canadian miner that lost its crown jewel in a 2009 expropriation, is targeting Venezuelan assets as it seeks to collect a $750 million...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneStudents from the National Polytechnic Institute, or IPN, the Benemerita Autonomous University of Puebla and the Advanced Technology Institute in Poza Rica, Veracruz, won first place for Mexico at the 2015 RobotChallenge in Vienna, Austr...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneSix people were killed and another wounded within the space of 30 minutes in three separate drive-by shootings across a single neighborhood in Sao Paulo, police said on Thursday.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from BBC News - Latin America & CaribbeanBrazilian workers remove more than 33 tonnes of dead fish from a lagoon in Rio where Olympic rowing and canoeing events are due to take place in 2016.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneCuba on Thursday began commemorating the 54th anniversary of the proclamation of the socialist nature of its revolution, which had been declared a day before the 1961 Bay of Pigs invasion, an event that marked the start of the long confr...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Borderland BeatScene of shootout Readers: We pride ourselves at Borderland Beat on posting stories that are from good sources, and look for a secondary source if warranted. We also are not above admitting to an error. This post from “Think Progress”, f...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from MercoPressThe Union of South American Nations, Unasur will celebrate this Friday its eighth anniversary with the official opening of the South American Defense School (Esude) created to instruct on defense and security issues, both at civil and mi...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Latin America News DispatchThousands of students demonstrated in favor of education reform in Chile on Thursday — specifically free higher education — while decrying recent corruption scandals that have rocked the country . The protests remained largely peaceful a...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Sputnik InternationalA truck with materials for industrial radiography, was stolen in the city of Cardenas in the southeastern state of Tabasco on Monday. An alert by federal authorities throughout southern Mexico remains valid.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneWikileaks, the website headed by Julian Assange, on Thursday published online all the documents and emails from Sony Pictures that last year were allegedly stolen by North Korean hackers.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneSao Paulo’s officials made a request Thursday for help from the army to contain a surge in the number of cases of dengue fever, from 3,183 in the first quarter of 2014 to 8,063 during the same period this year.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribunePresident Evo Morales on Thursday urged both Catholics and non-Catholics to take part in the visit to Bolivia by Pope Francis this summer, a trip during which he will travel to the cities of El Alto, La Paz and Santa Cruz.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from MercoPressCruise visitors to Punta Arenas, extreme south of Chile during this last 2014/15 season increased by 30%, with 48 vessel calls between last October and April this year, according to Chilean migration and international police records. Thi...
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Sputnik InternationalThe new law allows Mexicans to receive data from entities such as unions and political parties. It is aimed at curbing corruption and providing transparency.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneThe European Union announced on Thursday that Iran and representatives from the G5+1 will resume talks on the Iranian nuclear issue on April 22-23 in Vienna.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Latin American Herald TribuneA total of 400 minors have been rescued from slave-like conditions at Mexican farms over the past year, according to Labor Secretary Alfonso Navarrete, who said authorities need to strike at the root of the problem.
- Friday, April 17, 2015 from Kaieteur News
- APNU+AFC boycotts ceremony By Kiana Wilburg Anticipations were high for the much-touted grand opening of the Marriott Hotel at Kingston, the first of its kind in these parts. It was supposed to be a major project initiated by the forme... - Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Mexico News DailyOil and gas thieves are well versed at tapping into Mexico’s network of pipelines and helping themselves. Now they’ve turned to tanker trucks. Tabasco’s Attorney General, Fernando Valenzuela Pernas, has FULL STORY The post Federal Police...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesNASSAU, Bahamas -- Baha Mar CEO Sarkis Izmirlian on Wednesday hurled sharp criticisms at both the Bahamian government and Baha Mar general contractor China Construction America Bahamas Ltd (CCA), suggesting they failed to deliver on myri...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverTHE top-placed team in the Developing the Caribbean (DevCa) 2015 Code Sprint Competition has developed an application to help potential entrepreneurs access information and resources critical to their development.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverTHE Government has signalled its intention to capitalise on the visit of United States President Barack Obama, with Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade Minister Senator AJ Nicholson indicating that the visit could influence the opening of ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverPresident Barack Obama greets Army Sergeant First Class Donnie Key during an event to welcome the participants in the Wounded Warrior Project's Soldier Ride to the South Lawn of the White House in Washington, yesterday, in celebration of...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The most recent articlesTWO MORE QUAKES were recorded off Caribbean islands today, bringing the number to three in the region in less than 24 hours. The latest occurred at 10:49 a.m. at a depth of 30km, or roughly 79km east...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The most recent articlesFINAL YEAR law student Cherisse Francis is the new “boss” at Massy United Insurance. Her tenure is for all of today, but she intends to take full advantage of the break away from studying for final...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverThe Caribbean's premier hotelier Gordon 'Butch' Stewart yesterday supported the positions advanced by Tourism Minister Wykeham McNeill and former Prime Minister PJ Patterson on how Jamaica and the region should respond to Cuba's potentia...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverFriends, mi heart ah bleed! Why are we so wicked? Which sane adult would execute four people like dat, particularly three children?
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesGEORGETOWN, Guyana -- The Carter Center has launched an international election observation mission for Guyana’s May 11 elections at the invitation of the government of Guyana. The core team of experts will be joined this week by si...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Dominica News Online » Dominica News Online »Reigning Miss Mayfest Queen, Patrice Dorsette, has advised the young ladies who will participate in the 2015 Mayfest Queen pageant to believe in themselves in order to be successful. Christel Durand, 20 of Castle Bruce; Kimberly Pioche, ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverGEORGETOWN, Guyana — The opening of the Guyana Marriott Hotel in Georgetown yesterday is expected to significantly boost the country's ability to host major conferences, according to Tourism Minister Irfaan Ali.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Caribbean360The post Windies set 438 for victory after Ballance hundred appeared first on Caribbean360 .
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverMOSCOW, Russia (AFP) — Top Russian defence officials lashed out at the United States yesterday, accusing it of undermining global security by funding revolutions and expanding NATO in a bid to contain Russia.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The Trinidad Guardian NewspaperKalifa Clyne Published: Thursday, April 16, 2015 The region is in a period of elevated earthquake activity, seismologist Dr Joan Lutchman said. Lutchman said this in a telephone interview following an earthquake which was felt in T...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The most recent articlesPOLICE ARE INVESTIGATING an aggravated burglary which occurred at KFC Restaurant, Speightstown, St Peter, about 9:10 p.m. last night. Two masked men, one armed with a firearm and the other with...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The most recent articlesMOTHERS IN THE faith, a domestic worker and two home helpers will be among honourees at the 15th edition of the Mum This One’s For You show. Speaking at a Press conference today, producer Desmond “Fowl”...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverNAIROBI, Kenya (AFP) -- Kenyan youth have begun construction of a security barrier along the vast and porous border neighbouring war-torn Somalia, although critics have dismissed the project as infeasible, reports said yesterday.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The most recent articlesResults from the third night of the 2015 Barbados Badminton Association Senior National Championships at the Wildey Gymnasium. The seed is in brackets. Men’s Singles Semi-Finals Andre Padmore...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesST GEORGE, Grenada -- The destruction being created by the installation of a zip-line in the rainforest threatens to cut off access to one of Grenada’s main waterfalls and scar the environment. Several months ago, Rush Post publish...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverPresident of the Jamaican Bar Association (JBA) Donovan Walker is urging the public not to be alarmed at the recent arrest of at least five attorneys on fraud charges, as the majority of members of the country's legal profession practise...
- Jamaica police on high alert after three students and one adult are killed execution style [Updated]Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Caribbean360The post Jamaica police on high alert after three students and one adult are killed execution style [Updated] appeared first on Caribbean360 .
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesPolitical interest can bring people together, who otherwise would have little in common. In The Tempest, William Shakespeare wrote that misery acquaints a man with strange bedfellows. Interestingly, it was spoken by a man who was shipwre...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesBUSHY PARK, Barbados -- Sol Rally Barbados 2015 (May 29-31), which marks the 25th Anniversary of the Barbados Rally Club’s (BRC) premier event, will finish with a spectacular side-by-side SuperSpecial on the unique Race Of Champion...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Caribbean360The post Former NFL star found guilty in murder of Antigua-born semiprofessional player appeared first on Caribbean360 .
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverTHE Organisation of American States (OAS) has hailed the Government of Canada for its contribution to the hemispheric body.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica Gleaner :: Lead StoriesA SIX-year-old boy prances around and plays on a computer tablet at a yard in the Monymusk Housing Scheme in Clarendon, seemingly oblivious to Wednesday night's tragedy that has robbed him of his father, after gunmen snuffed out the life...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesNORTH SOUND, Antigua -- West Indies will enter the final day of the first Test match against England needing 340 runs to win with eight second innings wickets in hand. The home side ended the fourth day on 98-2 – after being set a ...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesNORTH SOUND, Antigua -- Prime Minister of Antigua and Barbuda Gaston Browne took time out on Wednesday, following his weekly Cabinet meeting, to join the local and international radio and television commentary of the first Test between E...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesIt was a curious thing to see Jamaicans hailing Barack Obama on Thursday more like a returning “son of the soil” than a visiting president of the United States. Even more curious was seeing CARICOM leaders jostle like UWI stu...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverPORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad (CMC) -- An earthquake with a magnitude of 5.4 rocked Trinidad and Tobago on Wednesday night, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Caribbean360The post Orphans of Obama’s legacy? | Ronald Sanders appeared first on Caribbean360 .
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The most recent articlesPRIME MINISTER Freundel Stuart has described his tour of the Miraflores Locks of the Panama Canal as a “humbling experience”. Stuart, who is on a three-day working visit to Panama following his attendance...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesCertain bad practices have been taking place in St Kitts for a long time. How widespread these practices are, I can’t say, but they pose a problem and, in my opinion, even a threat. One of such practice is this: some businesses ope...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Caribbean News Now! Daily HeadlinesPROVIDENCIALES, Turks and Caicos Islands -- Almost two weeks after questions were first directed to its press office, the Turks and Caicos Islands (TCI) government finally issued a statement on Thursday saying that it is aware of a civil...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Havana Times.orgEduardo Germán María Hughes Galeano (Eduardo Galeano), one of Hispano-America's most renowned intellectuals, took his last breath on Monday April 13, His narrative was one of my favorites to read.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Havana Times.orgWhen a friend of mine, journalist Ignacio Gonzalez, approached me and invited me to host a press channel he planned on launching, the first thing I thought was that the job was not for me.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Cuba - ACNCuba will host for the first time the International Symposium on Trade and Service Development, May 19-22 in Havana.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverThe modern-day sleuths who have been sent out to embarrass the highly successful one whom the retired one envies have failed yet again to unearth anything damaging. They don't mind exploiting even tragedies. Super detective Sherlock Holm...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Antigua Observer Newspaper » The Big StoriesThe government says it’s working on an agreement to have a US firm begin deep sea harvesting in the nation’s waters.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Haitilibre.com / Flash infosExtension of the application deadline - Already 603 pre-registered candidates - Lavalas presents its candidates - Forty pre-registered candidates for OPL - FUSION announces fifty candidates - Primary of the OPL...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverTHE granting of licences to the University of Technology and University of the West Indies to grow marijuana for research purposes has been greeted with mixed reaction from Jamaica Observer online readers. While some wholly welcome the m...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica Gleaner :: Lead StoriesA $500,000 BOUNTY has been placed on the heads of the gunmen who unleashed a vicious attack on an adult male and three teens in the Monymusk Housing scheme in Clarendon by Police Commissioner Dr Carl Williams, who yesterday visited famil...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverSOME members of the deaf community are being equipped to gain meaningful employment through skills training on offer by the Jamaica Association for the Deaf (JAD).
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Dominica News Online » Dominica News Online »Residents of St. Joseph were left in shock after the body of a man was fished out of the sea on Thursday morning at around 11:30. The man has been identified as Justin Joseph, also known as ‘Bougah.’ A source...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The Tico TimesJiménez becomes the fourth minister of Solís’ administration to step down and the 15th official to leave during Solís’ 11 months in office.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from The Tico TimesMIAMI – Several Venezuelan newspapers are at risk of imminent closure, the Inter-American Press Association warned Thursday, accusing leftist President Nicolás Maduro of impeding access to newsprint and discriminating against publication...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverOPPOSITION spokesman on industry, investment and commerce, Karl Samuda, is demanding that the Government publicise the details of a proposed US$5-billion investment in logistics-related projects before signing a memorandum of understandi...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica Gleaner :: Lead StoriesThe need for sustained economic growth has been articulated repeatedly by interests in both the private and public sectors. Jamaicans have been told that to help achieve this, the country must stick to the terms and...
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Cuba - ACNCuba declared the socialist character of its Revolution, which it ratifies today as its people have embarked in deep transformations to develop a prosperous and sustainable socialism.
- Thursday, April 16, 2015 from Jamaica ObserverTHE Family Court yesterday ordered that the 16-year-old boy, who was stopped in Suriname on the weekend over allegations that he was travelling to Turkey to join terror group ISIS, remains in custody until next Tuesday.
