October 27, 2012
Spain jobless rate hits new high in third quarter
About a quarter of working-age people in recession-hit Spain are unemployed, new figures have shown. The unemployment rate rose to 25% in the third quarter, from 24.6% in the previous three months, Spain's National Statistic Institute said. Among…
October 27, 2012
Jamaican QC expected in T&T tomorrow to take Clico brief
Jamaican lawyer Vincent Nelson, QC, will arrive in T&T tomorrow. Nelson is the newly-appointed lead counsel in the Ministry of Finance’s legal team at the Clico/HCU Commission of Enquiry. Along with Jagdeo Singh and Roger Kawalsingh, he replaced…
October 27, 2012
Portia says Cabinet will discuss hurricane damage
Prime Minister Portia Simpson Miller has ordered all government agencies to submit reports outlining areas in need of immediate attention following the passage of Hurricane Sandy that left at least two people dead. In national radio and television…
October 27, 2012
Brazilian student sells her virginity for $780,000 online
Catarina Migliorini, 20, was the subject of 15 bids, with a Japanese man named only as Natsu winning on Wednesday night, Australian media reported. They said Miss Migliorini would be "delivered" to her buyer on board a plane to Australia and that…
October 27, 2012
Hurricane Sandy kills 21
At least 21 were killed across the Caribbean after Hurricane Sandy lashed the Bahamas with heavy rains and high waves on its way to the US east coast as a powerful 'Frankenstorm' Forecasters warned that the massive hurricane could collide with a…
October 27, 2012
Panama debates land sale law repeal
Panama's National Assembly has taken the first step towards repealing a controversial law allowing the sale of land in Colon Free Zone, Latin America's biggest duty-free zone. The assembly debated the law on Friday and is expected to hold a final…
October 27, 2012
Eloy Gutierrez-Menoyo, ex-revolutionary and dissident, dies in Cuba
Eloy Gutierrez-Menoyo, a former Cuban revolutionary who later became a dissident, has died aged 77, friends and family have said. His wife, Flor Ester Torres Sanabria, told AP news agency that her husband died in a Havana hospital after suffering a…
October 27, 2012
Romney promises ‘real change’ to Obama’s ‘status quo’
Republican nominee Mitt Romney has called for "real change" against President Barack Obama's "status quo", on the final stretch of an election race that is too close to call. Mr Romney dismissed the Democratic incumbent as a shadow of his former…
October 27, 2012
Barack Obama casts vote early in Chicago
President Barack Obama has cast his vote in his hometown of Chicago as his campaign seeks to boost early ballots in a neck-and-neck election race. Mr Obama, who is on a two-day campaign marathon across eight states, is the first president to vote…
October 27, 2012
Italy’s Berlusconi Guilty of Tax Fraud
Former Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi has been convicted of tax fraud and sentenced to a year in prison. A Milan court Friday found the 76-year-old media magnate guilty in a case linked to the purchase of U.S. film and television rights on…