Peter Binose: Time to stop Visitors from Venezuela from entering the Caribbean without a treatment certificate
By Peter Binose In 2001 Venezuela was so affected by dengue that it trickled down through the Caribbean and the Americas which reached a crescendo by 2014. Almost every citizen throughout the Caribbean suffered from the disease it proved unstoppable. Dengue…
Jamaica is paying its oil debts to Venezuela with food instead of cash
By Alan Hernández, VICE News From Business Insider Jamaica has announced it is going to pay off oil debts it has with Venezuela with food, medication, and fertilizers, instead of cash. The barter agreement comes at a time when Venezuela…
Latin America-Caribbean Region at bottom of Gallup’s ‘Law and Order Index’
By Terence P. Jeffrey From CNSNews A mural of late Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Sabaneta, Venezuela. (AP Photo/Fernando Llando) (CNSNews.com) – Latin America and the Caribbean–the global region south of the United States–has the lowest “Law and Order Index”…
Venezuelan president threatens to jail US business executives
From Curacao Chronicle CARACAS – President Nicolás Maduro has threatened to jail Kimberly-Clark executives by soliciting an Interpol red notice after the US paper products company shut down production in Venezuela last week. The Texas-based company produced items that are in…
Venezuela oil production hits 13-year low
From Caribbean News Now CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela’s oil production fell to a 13-year low last month, declining by 170,000 barrels per day (bpd) since the start of 2016 to 2.18 million barrels per day (mb/d) in June, according to…
Peter Binose: The Unity Labour Party, the German Nazi Party, the Cubans, Venezuelans and the Cyber Crime Bill
By Peter Binose The Cyber Crime Act is designed to stop citizens from writing and also to stop them reading the truth about their leaders. The German Nazi Party put a similar Act in place but of course at that…
Panama Paper law firm representative in Venezuela arrested
From Caribbean News Now CARACAS, Venezuela — Jannet Almeida, a local representative of the Panamanian law firm of Mossack Fonseca, which is at the center of the Panama Papers offshore scandal, has been arrested by Venezuelan authorities in Caracas. “The woman…
Peter Binose: Trailing the cocaine route through Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
Remember how I once wrote about our Argyle airport being built to service the cocaine trade. http://www.caribbeannewsnow.com/headline-Letter%3A-Is-cocaine-the-real-reason-for-St-Vincent’s-Argyle-International-Airport%3F-29124.html On Sunday the 8th on November 2015 a Cessna Citation 500 took off from one of the government-operated terminals at Simón Bolívar International…
CONCACAF Announces Participating Teams, Groups and Schedule for 2016 CONCACAF Under-15 Girls’ Championship
The championship is set to take place August 9-21 at the ESPN Wide World of Sports Complex at Disney in Orlando, Florida Miami (Tuesday, July 5, 2016) – The Confederation of North, Central America and Caribbean Association Football (CONCACAF) today…
Venezuela PDVSA unit eyes up to $600 mln to overhaul Aruba refinery
By Alexandra Ulmer From Reuters CARACAS: Citgo Petroleum, the U.S. unit of Venezuela’s PDVSA, will likely invest about $400 million to $600 million to overhaul Aruba’s refinery under a 25-year lease with the Caribbean island’s government, a top PDVSA official…