February 11, 2013
Peru, Chile and Bolivia hit by floods after heavy rain
Torrential rain has been causing havoc along the Pacific coast side of South America, with flooding causing the deaths of at least six people in Peru. In the southern city of Arequipa, thousands of people were left without electricity and drinking…
February 7, 2013
Venezuelan politics heating up in Chavez’s absence
Corruption accusations and insults are flying between allies and opponents of President Hugo Chavez nearly two months after the Venezuelan leader disappeared from the political stage to undergo cancer surgery in Cuba. Analysts say the increasingly…
February 7, 2013
Prime Minister juggles national issues
Prime Minister Dean Barrow has been juggling enough balls on a number of national issues. Most recently, the dilemma has been keeping the unions at bay while trying to re-structure the five hundred and forty-four million U.S. dollar superbond. Going…
February 7, 2013
Three schoolboys arrested for Marijuana trafficking
Three 15-year-old schoolboys from two schools in east Trinidad have been arrested for marijuana trafficking. Two were arrested on Tuesday at their school while the other was held by police at his school in Rio Claro. Police went to the schools in…
February 7, 2013
Jamaica’s Budget slashed by $10 billion
THE Government cut the 2012/13 Budget by just under $10 billion yesterday, as it tabled its first supplementary estimates for the year, in an economic climate dictated by falling tax revenues, a declining dollar and the likelihood of failing to meet…
February 4, 2013
Plane crash off Venezuela; 1 killed
A small plane crashed into the sea off Venezuela's coast on Saturday, leaving one person dead and five survivors who were rescued and brought to shore.The twin-engine Beechcraft BE-58 went down east of the coastal city of Cumana in the Gulf of…
February 3, 2013
Unsafe’ Brazil nightclubs closed after Santa Maria fire
More than 150 nightclubs, restaurants and bars in Brazil have been deemed to be unsafe and closed by authorities. Sunday's fire in a club in the southern city of Santa Maria, which killed 236 people, led to inspections of venues across the country.…
February 3, 2013
Mexico blast victims’ bodies handed over to families
The bodies of the victims of a blast at the headquarters of Mexican oil company Pemex have been handed to their relatives. Thirty-three people died in Thursday's explosion in Mexico City. Hundreds of rescue workers continue to search the rubble for…
February 3, 2013
Cuba dissident Yoani Sanchez granted passport
Cuban dissident blogger Yoani Sanchez says she has been granted a passport after years of being denied the right to travel abroad. Ms Sanchez, who has criticised the Cuban government in her prize-winning blog Generation Y, announced the development…
February 3, 2013
American national found dead at Bahamas hotel
No name has been given, and no autopsy results released into the death of an American man in the Bahamas.Police say an the man may have fallen from the ninth-floor balcony of his beachfront hotel and died. Police superintendent Stephen Dean says…