Trinidad and Tobago government explains deportations of Venezuelan migrants
PORT OF SPAIN - After the United Nations System in Trinidad and Tobago said it is concerned after authorities announced they had facilitated the return to Venezuela of scores of Venezuelan nationals, including asylum More...
Venezuela vote rivals launch campaigns with gifts, promises of change
CARACAS - Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro kicked off his presidential campaign giving away trash trucks and tractors while challenger Henri Falcon laid out plans to de-politicize state oil company PDVSA and More...
European Parliament wants more help for the Caribbean islands
BRUSSELS - The President of the European Parliament, Antonio Tajani, wants the European Commission to give more support to Aruba, Bonaire and Curaçao. The islands are currently being flooded with refugees from More...
Import fruit and vegetables from Venezuela stagnant
WILLEMSTAD - Two weeks after the opening of the borders with Venezuela, the import of fruit and vegetable boats to the island is still stagnant. This morning a second fruit boat arrived, but it should have been More...
Underlining alliance, Venezuela’s Maduro visits new Cuban leader
HAVANA - Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro became on Saturday the first foreign leader to meet with Cuba’s Miguel Diaz-Canel since he became president of the communist-run island this week, underscoring the More...
UNHCR regret at deportations of Venezuelans from Trinidad and Tobago
GENEVA - UNHCR, the UN Refugee Agency, deeply regrets the deportation this past weekend by Trinidad and Tobago of 82 Venezuelan nationals. The 82 include registered asylum-seekers and individuals who had declared More...
US officials: 16 nations agree to track Venezuela corruption
WASHINGTON - Finance ministers from several Latin American nations as well as the U.S. and Europe have agreed to work jointly to locate and seize the proceeds arising from corruption by Venezuelan government insiders, More...
Venezuela requiring foreign ships to pay for services in crypto currency
CARACAS - Foreign ships in Venezuela will have to use the recently created cryptocurrency, Petro, to pay for services while in the South American country. And that could put the shipping firms on collision course More...
Coast Guard intercepts twenty undocumented migrants south of Curaçao
WILLEMSTAD - The Coast Guard Caribbean (KWCARIB) held a vessel with twenty undocumented migrants south of Curaçao in a joint action on Wednesday morning April 18. On Wednesday morning the radar operator of the More...
PDVSA refineries In Venezuela, Curaçao ran at 31% capacity in 1Q
CARACAS, WILLEMSTAD - Venezuela's oil refineries worked at 31 percent of their combined 1.62 million-barrel-per-day capacity in the first quarter, well below 2017 levels, according to an internal document from state-run More...
