January 29, 2013
Brazil Arrests 4 After Deadly Nightclub Blaze
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January 29, 2013
Bahamians vote in referendum
Bahamians voted in a referendum Monday on whether or not to legalise web-shop gambling and a national lottery following a campaign that mirrors a general election in the country. The ruling Progressive Liberal party (PLP) of Prime Minister Perry…
January 29, 2013
Biggest seizure of liquid drug in UK history at Gatwick Airport
Border officials have found an £8million haul of liquid cocaine hidden in tins of carrot juice at Gatwick Airport. The UK Border Agency believes it is the biggest seizure of its kind in British history.Staff made the discovery while carrying out…
January 29, 2013
Poll shows Grenada Opposition could win February General Elections
The main opposition New National Party (NNP) is likely to A poll conducted by the Barbados-based Caribbean Development Research Services Inc (CADRES) predicts that the New National Party, which lost the 2008 election in Grenada, is now benefitting…
January 29, 2013
Guatemalan Judge Orders ex-President Tried for Genocide
A Guatemalan judge has ordered former dictator Jose Efrain Rios Montt be tried for the genocide of nearly 2,000 indigenous Mayans in the early 1980s.This is the first time a Latin American court has charged a former president with mass murder and…
January 27, 2013
Brazil night club fire kills 245 in Santa Maria
At least 245 people have died in a fire that swept through a nightclub in a university city in southern Brazil, police and officials say. Local media say the fire began when a band let off fireworks at the Kiss club in Santa Maria, Rio Grande do…
January 27, 2013
Mazaruni River crash…Police play crucial role, 10th body recovered
Yesterday, the search and rescue team in the Mazaruni River recovered yet another body which has been identified as that of Ricky Boob of Barr Street, Kitty. This latest recovery has taken the death toll to ten. On Friday the team recovered the…
January 27, 2013
Brazil landless leader Cicero Guedes shot dead in Rio
A leader of the landless movement in Brazil, Cicero Guedes, has been killed in Rio de Janeiro state. Mr Guedes, 43, was shot dead on Saturday as he was cycling home. He was killed near a former sugar plant which members of the landless movement, or…
January 27, 2013
Grenada: Government Wage Bill
The Government of Grenada as part of its ongoing public sector reform in 2012 established the Office of the Prime Minister as separate and distinct from the Prime Minister’s Ministry. The Office of the Prime Minister comprises the Cabinet Office,…
January 27, 2013
Two Caribbean destinations in top five overseas wedding locations for UK travellers
Two Caribbean destinations -- St Lucia and Antigua -- appear in the list of the best overseas spots to tie the knot published by luxury long haul specialists Hayes and Jarvis. More and more people are considering a wedding abroad as an alternative…