Venezuela News
Integrity Commission investigating Trinidad’s “emailgate” scandal
The Commission said it has already received “response from an international electronic mail service provider and is moving ahead with its investigation.”
Shocking claims and gay slurs sully Venezuelan politics
Caracas’ image is soiled by lurid language in the National Assembly and allegations of everything from gay prostitution rings to drug trafficking in high places....Cuban exiles accused of plotting to assassinate Venezuelan president
Luis Posada Carriles, who is wanted for the 1976 bombing of a Cubana flight that killed 73 people off Barbados, is said to be involved in the plot to kill Nicolas Maduro....Venezuela to hike Petrocaribe interest rates
Under the Petrocaribe agreement, the 17 member countries buy Venezuelan oil at favourable rates and through a long-term financing agreement....Wreckage of Italian millionaire’s plane found off Venezuela
Vittorio Missoni ran the famed Milan-based fashion house which has estimated annual sales of over US$75 million....Toilet paper stink gives way to Mass mess in Venezuela
As the problem of shortages spreads from the kitchen to the bathroom and on to the Church, the government insists that an opposition-led conspiracy is to blame....Toilet paper shortage causes a stink in Venezuela
The revolution turns its attention to acquiring 50 million rolls of bathroom tissue so that the people will “calm down”....OAS offers support for recount after tight race in Venezuela
The regional body’s secretary-general offered the services of election experts “in the context of deep division and political polarization”....Ghost of Chavez gives Maduro the bird
Like Alice in Wonderland, the campaign leading up to Venezuela’s April 14 presidential election just gets ‘curiouser and curiouser’....Quit crying for Chavez and campaign for me
Venezuela’s acting president urges supporters to secure “victory against the forces of evil, against the forces of darkness”....Venezuela opposition leader vows to end subsidized oil to Cuba
Capriles maintains that halting cheap oil sales would free up resources to boost public employee salaries by 40 percent....Caracas to probe claims that Chavez was poisoned by enemies
Critics dismiss the move as another ploy to distract attention from pressing issues in the forthcoming presidential election....What's new
- Heavy rains cause flooding, evacuations in Trinidad
- Canada introduces easier visa application process for Caribbean nationals
- UWI dismisses controversial Trinidadian environmentalist
- Bolt tipped for role in upcoming action movie
- Removal of Caribbean Airlines fuel subsidy a "hoax" - Rowley
- Dreadlocked Jamaican construction worker weds daughter of US house speaker
- The case for compensating the Caribbean
- Caribbean academic presents compelling case why Britain should pay reparations
- DNA links Trinidad Caribs to Africa and North America
- Deadly new virus claims more victims, baffles scientists