New board to oversee Trinidads Caribbean Airlines

Sign on San Diego - Saturday 18th May, 2013

PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad -; Trinidad's finance minister has appointed a new interim board to oversee Caribbean Airlines after announcing that the state-owned company posted losses of more than $70 ...

Orb is Favorite Colt at Preakness Stakes

VOA - Saturday 18th May, 2013

The colt will face eight rivals at Pimlico Race Course in Baltimore, Maryland, Saturday. If the horse wins, he gets a shot on June 9 to try for the first Triple Crown win since 1978 at the Belmont Stakes. Orb will break from the one post during the race. Trainer Shug McGaughey said Friday he was pleased with the horse and does not see any problems ahead of the race. Eleven horses have won the ...

Has Caribbean Diplomacy Lost Its Mojo

IPS - Saturday 18th May, 2013

- Whether by accident or coincidence, recent days have seen a variety of Caribbean leaders and journalists question whether the region is failing to pursue leadership roles within international organisations – and thus losing its voice in global issues like trade, climate change, and peace and ...

Missing young man found unharmed in Santiago

Dominican Today - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Santiago, DR.- Luis Felipe Baba Suarez, 15, who was missing since Wednesday, was found by police in a hotel room in La Rotonda hotel in Santiago.The teen was located at 5 pm by officers from the Criminal Investigation Police, after receiving a call from the hotel staff.According to the employees, the teen had checked in Thursday afternoon and fed only with chips, juice and soda.Police commander ...

Mexico first quarter expands only 0.8

Nasdaq - Saturday 18th May, 2013

) Q1 GDP expands 0.8% from Q1 compare to first quarter last year. "Southern Texas" is growing much slower than its neighbor to the ...

Indian Brazilian Nationals Sentenced in US for Human Smuggling

VOA - Saturday 18th May, 2013

A federal court in Houston, Texas, has sentenced an Indian citizen and a Brazilian national to three years in prison for smuggling illegal migrants into the United States. Kaushik Thakkar and Fabano Amorim were also given two years of supervised release when their prison terms end. Prosecutors say the two charged Indian citizens up to $60,000 each and conspired to smuggle them into the ...

Argentina Ex-military leader Videlas death leaves unanswered questions for disappeared

Euro News - Saturday 18th May, 2013

The death of former Argentine military leader Jorge Rafael Videla has been greeted with mixed feelings of relief and anguish. He passed away in prison on Friday serving a life sentence for crimes against humanity committed during the 1976-83 military dictatorship. For human rights groups the hope of finding the 30,000 ‘disappeared’ died along with him. President of the ...

Obama Focuses on Middle-Class Jobs

VOA - Saturday 18th May, 2013

U.S. President Barack Obama says he is focusing on ways to help the American middle class make economic gains, to bring them in line with the economic recovery of big ...

Gunmen Kill Iraqi Police Officer and Family

VOA - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Officials say the gunmen gunned down an administrator for the al-Rasheed district Saturday, and also killed the police captain's wife and their two children. The attackers also killed at least one security officer nearby. On Friday, a series of bomb attacks targeted Sunnis in Iraq, including in Baquba, just north of Baghdad, killing 70 people and increasing fears of renewed sectarian ...

Russia Seeks New Arms Deals on Growing Latin American Market

RIA Novosti - Saturday 18th May, 2013

MOSCOW, May 18 (RIA Novosti) – Russia will actively seek new deals on the Latin American arms market, which it expects to reach a value of $50 billion in the next ten years, the head of a Russian Technologies (Rostec) high-tech state corporation delegation said on Saturday. "According to our expert estimates, the volume of the Latin American arms market will reach about $50 billion ...

Afghan Police Chief Assassinated

VOA - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Officials say Police Chief Abdul Ghani was near his home late Friday when gunmen shot him. No one has been detained in the case. The Associated Press quotes a local official as saying Ghani had led a crackdown on insurgents in his district of Khaki Safad that resulted in the killing and capture of several Taliban leaders. The spokesman said that made him a target for Taliban ...

US Train Crash Injures 60 Suspends Service

VOA - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Officials say the crash took place around 6 p.m. local time Friday near Bridgeport, Connecticut, about 100 kilometers northeast of New York. Connecticut state governor Dannel Malloy told reporters that five people were critically injured in the crash, including one person with very serious injuries. The cause of the crash is under investigation. Malloy said there is "no reason to believe ...

Peru Mulls Deals to Buy Russian Helicopters Tanks - Rostec

RIA Novosti - Saturday 18th May, 2013

LIMA, May 18 (RIA Novosti) - Peru is interested in buying 700 Kamaz trucks and a new batch of Mi-8/17 helicopters from Russia, as well as testing the T-90S tank that is currently on display at a defense technology exhibition in Lima, the head of Russia's delegation to the show said on Saturday."Russia is discussing the possibility with Peru of signing a contract for the delivery of ...

Mexico violence claims hundreds of US lives

Inquirer Global Nation - Saturday 18th May, 2013

MEXICO CITY--When Malcolm X’s grandson was beaten to death in a seedy Mexico City bar last week his name joined the hundreds of US citizens who have been murdered in this country in recent years. Excluding terror attacks and US soldiers killed in action, Mexico has seen more homicides of Americans than any other part of the world in the past decade, according to an AFP analysis of US ...

Maduro admits to knowing “the IDs and all” of the 900.000 Chavistas who did not vote for him

Merco Press - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Venezuelan president Nicolas Maduro admitted to knowing ‘with IDs and all’ who are the 900.000 Chavistas who crossed lines and did not vote for him in the 14 April election which anointed him as the successor of deceased Hugo ...

North Korea launches three short-range missiles

AdelaideNow - Saturday 18th May, 2013

NORTH Korea has launched three short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, apparently as part of a military drill, South Korea's defence ministry said. "North Korea launched two guided missiles in the morning and another one in the afternoon,'' a defence ministry spokesman told AFP. "The missiles landed in the East Sea (Sea of Japan),'' he said. South Korea was ...

Protest against use of nuclear energy in Brazil

SINA - Saturday 18th May, 2013

A member of environmentalist organization Greenpeace takes part in a protest against the use of nuclear energy, in Sao Paulo, Brazil, on April 27, 2013. (Xinhua/Rahel ...

Cuba goes for its new president

Pravda - Saturday 18th May, 2013

The National Assembly of Cuba re-elected Raul Castro as president (head of the State Council and the government). Miguel Diaz-Canel was elected first vice-president of the State Council, which means that in five years he could be Raul's successor. The President promised Cubans revenue growth, but warned that the new society would no longer be the society "of ...

Brazil president says asylum offer to adulterous Iran woman is humanitarian gesture

Sify - Saturday 18th May, 2013

The decision to give refuge to a convicted Iranian woman should be seen as a humanitarian act without political motives, said Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. "I made the offer for humanitarianism, instead of politics," Xinhua quoted da Silva, as saying while referring to the case of Sakineh Mohammadi Ashtiani, 43, who has been convicted of adultery and sentenced to ...

French President Signs Same-Sex Marriage Into Law

NPR - Saturday 18th May, 2013

the BBC reports , after the Senate and National Assembly approved the bill, it "was quickly challenged on constitutional grounds by the main right-wing opposition UMP party of former president Nicolas Sarkozy." Friday, a ruling by the Constitutional Council cleared the way for the president's signature. The council found the bill in accordance with constitution, ...

US Criticizes Russian Missiles Sale to Syria

VOA - Saturday 18th May, 2013

The remarks by General Martin Dempsey were the first U.S. confirmation that Russia made the sale of so-called ship-killer cruise missiles to Syria. Dempsey, the chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, said Friday the missiles will embolden President Bashar al-Assad and prolong the suffering in Syria. The New York Times says the Russian anti-ship cruise missiles are more advanced than previous ...

Sao Paulo teachers’ strikes confront union betrayal

wsws.org - Saturday 18th May, 2013

Brazilian teachers remain on strike in the municipal school system of the city of Sao Paulo after their counterparts in the Sao Paulo state system saw their strike betrayed by their union. Both sections of teachers have demanded significant wage increases, improved working conditions, smaller class sizes and a halt to the universal drive to privatize and cut public education. The walkouts are ...