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For more headlines on Breaking, National, Business, Finance, Sports and World News, visit our home page Trinidad Times.com http://www.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/10/id/1e6da80e3bfca450/ en-us Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:47:30 -0400 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 07:47:30 -0400 30 South Florida's Mexican community has grown in size and influence in recent years, as a new wave of immigrants from both the agricultural and business fields have chosen to make their home here.Now lo... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17499665/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:37:12 -0400 Miami Herald http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17499665/ Carrying bags of cement and water purifiers up a Guatemalan hillside in the name of charity makes football training seem easy, says England international Shaun Wright-Phillips, who has been helping ou... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17499663/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:33:45 -0400 FIFA http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17499663/ GUATEMALA CITY (Reuters) - The head of presidential security in Guatemala resigned on Thursday after President Alvaro Colom said he found cameras and voice recorders hidden in his offices and home. http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17499662/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:25:03 -0400 The Star http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17499662/ President Álvaro Colom of Guatemala fired his security chief on Thursday after the discovery of seven unauthorized listening devices and video cameras in the presidential office and residence. "... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17499664/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:13:52 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17499664/ oscar@caribbeannetnews.com BELMOPAN, Belize: The Belize Cabinet has agreed to disburse $2 million in additional food subsidies to assist the needy in its welfare programme. The money will be paid from... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17496361/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:52:19 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17496361/ oscar@caribbeannetnews.com BELMOPAN, Belize: Philip Goldson will be posthumously named a National Hero of Belize on September 18 -- Belize Patriots Day -- and former Prime Minister, Manuel Esquivel, w... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17496757/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:52:15 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17496757/ Guatemalan President Alvaro Colom says prosecutors are investigating who planted microphones and video cameras in the presidential palace to spy on him. http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17496764/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:14:16 -0400 Gadsden Times http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17496764/ Walmart employee who had complained that vouchers handed out by the company as part of its salary payments could only be spent in the company's stores.The practice of vouchers "that come from the... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17492645/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:44:48 -0400 Yahoo!7 News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17492645/ Shenyang Rrzk Co. to sell a 20 percent stake in Southridge’s El Salvador-based ethanol facility. The transaction is valued at $4 million. Dallas-based Southridge started construction on the pla... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17493282/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:06:22 -0400 Dallas Business Journal http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17493282/ A woman touted by authorities as Mexico's most infamous female drug trafficker says in a new book that she grew up around smugglers, but she doesn't admit to using or trafficking drugs. http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17493285/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:27:38 -0400 Gadsden Times http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17493285/ MEXICO CITY—Two Cubans are being held by Mexican police for their alleged involvement in the beheadings of a dozen men in the Yucatan peninsula. A Public Safety Department statement says the man... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17493287/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:25:03 -0400 Denver Post http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17493287/ Nicaragua became the second country - after Russia - to recognize the break- away Georgian provinces of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Managua - The leftist Sandinista government of Nicaragua became th... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17488474/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:21:39 -0400 ANS http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17488474/ The president of the Central American state of Nicaragua, Daniel Ortega, has followed Moscow's lead by recognizing the breakaway Georgian regions of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. Nicaragua thereby becom... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17483771/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 16:00:27 -0400 RadioFreeEurope http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17483771/ Washington, September 4 : Archaeologists have discovered what may be the oldest human skeleton ever found in the Americas, deep inside an underwater cave in Mexico. http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17472766/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 09:52:35 -0400 New Kerala http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17472766/ A Mexican man convicted of being a member of a smuggling and prostitution ring was sentenced Wednesday in Miami federal court to 15 years in prison.Juan Luis Cadena-Sosa was sentenced for conspiring t... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17464860/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 03:11:17 -0400 Miami Herald http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17464860/ oscar@caribbeannetnews.com BELMOPAN, Belize: There are reports that the Dean Barrow government in Belize has fired a large number of employees since it took over earlier this year. The opposition Peop... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17461847/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 00:21:20 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17461847/ San Jose - The purchase by China of 300 million dollars in Costa Rican bonds and the involvement in the transaction of a Costa Rican bank with ties to the Central American country's current ambassador... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17453821/ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 18:48:42 -0400 Earth Times http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17453821/ More than three dozen other soldiers were injured and taken to local hospitals. Some were transported by helicopter to the military hospital in the capital. http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17449302/ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:44:00 -0400 USA Today http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17449302/ In Mexico, Miguel Angel Félix Gallardo is feared and reviled as the godfather of Mexico's cocaine trade. On his website, however, he's portrayed as a family man and a savvy business tycoon.Yes,... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17443901/ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 13:00:44 -0400 Miami Herald http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17443901/ Mexican medal winners at the Olympic Games on Tuesday received the first recognition to their triumph, when receiving a letter from a house construction company which has promised to award each of the... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17430822/ Wed, 03 Sep 2008 02:12:41 -0400 People's Daily http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17430822/ A tunnel about 3 feet wide, 3 feet high and about 100 yards long, is seen under a neighborhood in Mexicali, on Mexico's northern border with the U.S. http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17427254/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 23:48:16 -0400 General Sources http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17427254/ The Palestinian Rights Committee, hearing a briefing on the situation in the Occupied Palestinian Territory, today approved the provisional programme for a United Nations meeting in support of Israeli... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17423637/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 21:43:58 -0400 United Nations http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17423637/ Central America has always attracted intrepid visitors in search of unfiltered natural beauty. Now, a set of top-tier, often eco-friendly, resorts is reinventing the region as a world-class beach dest... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17418607/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:36:18 -0400 MSNBC http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17418607/ ALBANY, N.Y. - New York state agriculture officials are warning consumers not to eat a particular brand of cheese because of possible E. coli contamination. http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17417892/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 18:19:08 -0400 MSNBC http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17417892/ By Steve HollandST. PAUL, Minnesota (Reuters) - U.S. Republican John McCain rallied behind his vice presidential pick Sarah Palin on Tuesday and his campaign accused Democrat Barack Obama of sexism fo... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17419010/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:59:34 -0400 Swiss Info http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17419010/ September 2, 2008 - 3:06 p.m. ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) - New York state agriculture officials are warning consumers not to eat a particular brand of cheese because of possible E. coli contamination. A ro... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17414771/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 15:30:40 -0400 Canadian Business http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17414771/ Honduran officials say the United States has lifted a more than five-month ban on cantaloupe imports from one of the country's biggest melon farmers.Agriculture Minister Hector Hernández says t... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17410366/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:44:40 -0400 Miami Herald http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17410366/ BILWI, Nicaragua, Sep 2 (IPS) - Some 250,000 indigenous children and adolescents who had no legal identity in Nicaragua are in the process of being registered -- an essential step towards achieving re... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17409127/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 12:42:46 -0400 IPS http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17409127/ Mexican police detained 44 undocumented people from Central America who were traveling in disguised trucks, authorities said Monday. Hidden in the false bottom of two trucks, they traveled to the stat... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17397099/ Tue, 02 Sep 2008 00:26:22 -0400 People's Daily http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17397099/ Mexican President Felipe Calderon Sunday called on all citizens to help the fight against crime. Calderon issued a statement after meeting with organizers of the civil march on Saturday against insecu... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17395176/ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 21:59:38 -0400 People's Daily http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17395176/ MEXICO CITY -- The heads of 11 decapitated bodies discovered in Mexico's Yucatan Peninsula last week may have been burned in a ritual, investigators said. http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17391980/ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 19:46:49 -0400 The News Tribune http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17391980/ Posted on: Monday, 1 September 2008, 12:00 CDT Millicom International Cellular has launched its 3G services in Guatemala, Honduras and Bolivia. The launches in Paraguay, El Salvador and Colombia will... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17387122/ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 15:18:29 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17387122/ MEXICO CITY (AP) _ Moving quickly to address mounting anger over crime, President Felipe Calderon promised Sunday to adopt several proposals from civic groups who led more than 100,000 Mexicans in mar... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17384425/ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 12:17:44 -0400 Newsday http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17384425/ When he was caught selling crack in San Francisco's Tenderloin in April, the Honduran immigrant who called himself Javier Martinez first told police he was 18. Then he said he was 16. http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17381606/ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 09:57:19 -0400 San Francisco Chronicle http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17381606/ Moving quickly to address mounting anger over crime, President Felipe Calderon promised Sunday to adopt several proposals from civic groups who led more than 100,000 Mexicans in marches against daily ... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17377711/ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 06:23:54 -0400 ABC News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17377711/ Calderon acknowledged that Mexicans are desperate to see results two years after he took office and began an aggressive battle against drug traffickers and other criminal gangs. The government "shares... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17378129/ Mon, 01 Sep 2008 05:58:17 -0400 Find Law http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17378129/ Calderon 46, skidded on a wet and slippery surface while doing his morning exercise on Saturday, and tumbled to the ground fracturing his left shoulder and also hurting his left knee. The former ... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17366036/ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 18:12:57 -0400 One News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17366036/ The Mexican equivalent of the Attorney General’s office is investigating the death of an Oregon tourist who was beaten by local police while vacationing in San Jose del Cabo, a beach town near Cabo ... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17362241/ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 13:37:40 -0400 The Register-Guard http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17362241/ BBC Radio 4's Crossing Continents With gold prices skyrocketing, the Mayans of Guatemala find themselves caught up in a new rush for the precious metal. http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17360184/ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:44:04 -0400 BBC http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17360184/ 8/30/2008, 8:25 p.m. EDT RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Amazon deforestation jumped 69 percent in the past 12 months — the first such increase in three years — as rising demand for so... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17356745/ Sun, 31 Aug 2008 04:45:36 -0400 New Jersey Online http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/1e6da80e3bfca450/id/17356745/