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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/80f72651582f2c13/ en-us Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:17:42 -0400 Fri, 05 Sep 2008 04:17:42 -0400 30 Tropical Storm Hanna pounded the north coast of Haiti Wednesday, leaving at least 61 people dead, officials reported. http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/402667/cs/1/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:01:08 -0400 Trinidad Times.com http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/402667/cs/1/ Lima (Peru), September 4 : A scientific expedition, made up of Polish, North American, and Peruvian specialists, discovered tombs, apparently from the Pre-Incan culture, as well as archaeological remains in Peru's Colca canyon. http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/402661/cs/1/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:01:02 -0400 Trinidad Times.com http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/402661/cs/1/ Posted on: Friday, 5 September 2008, 00:00 CDT By Sadie Gray Residents of Haiti were last night clearing up the devastation caused by Tropical Storm Hanna, as officials in the US prepared for the sto... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499644/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:40:25 -0400 RedOrbit http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499644/ Argentina hosts Paraguay on Saturday with the chance to go top in South American World Cup qualifying if it can regain its winning form.A victory in Buenos Aires will snap Argentina's three-match winl... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499024/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:35:32 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499024/ Several hundred thousand people need help in Haiti, which is suffering severe flooding after being hit by a series of tropical storms, the UN says. UN official Joel Boutroue told the BBC that the s... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17498913/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:16:24 -0400 BBC http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17498913/ Lawmakers loyal to President Hugo Chavez have given final approval to a bill allowing the government to seize control of fuel distribution in Venezuela.Fuel distributors, including subsidiaries of Bri... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499716/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:36:33 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499716/ Brazil has declined Iran's invitation to join OPEC, but could join the cartel in the future, the nation's mines and energy minister said Thursday.Minister Edson Lobao said in a phone interview with th... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499718/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:34:47 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499718/ Mexico voluntarily suspends exports of meat, poultry to United States U.S. officials raised concerns about quality of Mexican food processing, inspections There is no word on how long the suspension w... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499704/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:21:25 -0400 CNN http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499704/ A California state senator said Thursday that he was seeking a legal opinion to determine whether the LPGA Tour's language requirement for players violates state or federal law. State Sen. Leland Y... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499239/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:11:27 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499239/ Airport officials and federal authorities said Thursday that they have tightened security at Los Angeles International Airport because of the recent arrest of an elevator mechanic suspected of smuggli... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17502061/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:11:25 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17502061/ Hurricane Gustav has rekindled a decades-old debate dividing South Florida's Cuban exile community. While they may want to help their families back home, many defend the U.S. embargo enacted in res... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499652/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:10:15 -0400 Sun-Sentinel http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499652/ 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/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499662/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:25:03 -0400 The Star http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499662/ Chile's central bank has raised its key interest rate to 8.25 percent, its highest level in a decade.The bank said Thursday the half-point rate hike responded to consumer price increases.The National ... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499912/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:37:10 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499912/ 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/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499664/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:13:52 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499664/ Paraguay striker Roque Santa Cruz is out of Saturday's World Cup qualifier against Argentina because of a left ankle injury."I wanted to recover, but it proved very difficult," Santa Cruz said Thursda... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499026/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:34:59 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499026/ The Stars and Stripes was among a line of flags flying in front of the U.S. football team's hotel on the Cuban capital's storied seaside Malecon boulevard Thursday.It's been quite awhile since that ha... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499645/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:37:45 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499645/ MEXICO CITY : The United States State Department said Thursday that it had offered humanitarian aid to Cuban victims of Hurricane Gustav, provided that it went through relief organizations and not the... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17498929/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:13:47 -0400 International Herald Tribune http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17498929/ An international market research firm on Thursday said policies to combat inflation in Latin America may cause stagflation _ slowed economic growth that creates unemployment while consumer prices soar... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499200/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:37:52 -0400 eTaiwan News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499200/ 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/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499665/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:37:12 -0400 Miami Herald http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499665/ – When the 11-year-old daughter of Antonio Gomez became ill of a stomach ailment, her father decided that it was due to witchcraft committed by his evangelical neighbor. Gomez, of the Jolitonti... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499703/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:32:16 -0400 Crosswalk http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499703/ 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/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499663/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:33:45 -0400 FIFA http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499663/ SAN DIEGO -- A San Diego police officer has been arraigned in federal court on charges of passing information about drug investigations to drug traffickers. Juan Hurtado Tapia, 38 was arrested Tue... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17500817/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:11:24 -0400 Los Angeles Times http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17500817/ GONAIVES, Haiti — Haiti's government says the death toll from Tropical Storm Hanna has more than doubled to 137, with most of the deaths coming in the flooded port city of Gonaives. The Ministry ... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499641/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:07:31 -0400 Deseret News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499641/ A senior UN official in Haiti has said over 500,000 people need help because of flooding caused by tropical storm Hanna. 136 people have already died in Haiti due to Hanna, the third storm to hit the... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499649/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:40:38 -0400 RTE http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499649/ Television images showed black smoke and flames engulfing the train at the station of Merlo, in the western suburbs of the capital, Buenos Aires. At nearby Castelar, passengers hurled stones at the ti... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499725/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 03:02:43 -0400 The Peninsula http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499725/ Hugo Chavez said Venezuela started sending oil to South Africa and enhanced the south-south co-operation. At the press conference in Pretoria he said that the world was facing a "terrible crisis" a... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499267/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:56:21 -0400 Neftegaz http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499267/ Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) is on course to become the country’s most powerful political force following next year’s mid-term elections, according to a poll published on Wed... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499701/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 02:39:55 -0400 Financial Times http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17499701/ 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/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496361/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:52:19 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496361/ oscar@caribbeannetnews.com ROAD TOWN, BVI: The British Virgin Islands will observe the first Caribbean Wellness Day on September 13 with several activities, including a healthy walk, which will be led... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496756/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:52:18 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496756/ 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/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496764/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:14:16 -0400 Gadsden Times http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496764/ ' }, { url: 'http://wwwimage.cbsnews.com/images/2008/09/04/image4414366g.jpg', alt: '', text: 'A pregnant woman stands in a flooded street after Tropical Storm Hanna hit the area in Gonaives, Hai... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496616/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:32:21 -0400 CBS News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496616/ e2v has accepted a new contract from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) to provide CCD image sensors for the Very Large Telescope operated in Chile. e2v will supply ESO, the largest astronomical ... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496946/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 01:03:50 -0400 Space Daily http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496946/ Angry commuters have set fire to train carriages outside the Argentine capital Buenos Aires after morning rush hour delays. The trouble began when a malfunctioning train came to a stop before the wes... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496478/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:49:39 -0400 ABC Australia http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496478/ tess@caribbeannetnews.com GRAND TURK, Turks and Caicos Islands: Tropical Storm Hanna is finally moving out of the Bahamas as it heads northward towards the United States, leaving behind a trail of dea... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496749/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:52:27 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496749/ LONDON, England: As Hurricane Hanna devastates the Caribbean, and with Hurricane Ike poised to do the same, the British Red Cross has launched an appeal to support thousands forced to flee their homes... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496750/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:52:26 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496750/ miranda@caribbeannetnews.com SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico: The New Progressive Party (NNP) Governing Board determined Thursday to accept the recommendation made by the Reconciliation Committee that was in ch... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496748/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:52:29 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496748/ LONDON, England: The world’s first and only multi-nation catastrophe risk fund, the Caribbean Catastrophe Risk Insurance Facility (CCRIF), won the Re/Insurance Initiative of the Year award at Th... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496258/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:52:16 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496258/ GEORGETOWN, Guyana (GINA): Guyana has for several years been concentrating on expanding its immunization coverage which has earned it a prestigious Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organi... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496751/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:52:25 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496751/ 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/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496757/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:52:15 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496757/ oscar@caribbeannetnews.com GEORGETOWN, Guyana: Efforts are being made for closer ties between the Caribbean and Africa, South Africa High Commissioner to the Caribbean, Faith Radebe, disclosed when sh... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496686/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:52:22 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496686/ le (23-kilometer) tunnel through the Andes into Chile. Chilean President Michelle Bachelet also supports the project. Argentina's state news agency says the tunnel and railway will cost US$3 billion. ... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496803/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:52:56 -0400 The China Post http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496803/ oscar@caribbeannetnews.com GEORGETOWN, Guyana: A machine that could diagnose many types of heart disease using cutting edge techniques, and in as little as ten minutes, is now accessible to Guyanese r... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496755/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:52:21 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496755/ GEORGE TOWN, Cayman Islands: Cable & Wireless Caribbean and Research In Motion (RIM) on Thursday announced that the feature-rich BlackBerry Bold smartphone will be available in C&W’s mar... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496345/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:52:28 -0400 Caribbean Net News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496345/ Her third day without food or water, Fleurie Benita waded through the calf-high mud, balancing her life's possessions on her head, uncertain of what to do next, or what will come next.With every step,... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496651/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:58:54 -0400 The Miami Herald http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496651/ Brazil's federal troops will arrive in Rio within a week in order to ensure the security of this October's election, Brazil's Defense Minister Nelson Jobimsaid Thursday. "We will be at the positi... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496802/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:03:15 -0400 People's Daily http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496802/ The northeast Cuban town of Gibara went on alert Thursday as the sea swelled due to Tropical Storm Hanna and Hurricane Ike. The civil defense system of Gibara, in the province of Holguin, started to f... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496736/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:03:12 -0400 People's Daily http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496736/ MEXICO CITY (AP) -- Two Cubans are being held by Mexican police for their alleged involvement in the beheadings of a dozen men in the Yucatan peninsula. http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496785/ Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:02:02 -0400 CNN Asia http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17496785/ NEW YORK -- Sarah Palin's repetition (5 times) of the word "Alaska," her home state, during her acceptance speech last night may actually have sounded to some Latinos like http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17494947/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:54:29 -0400 NCM http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17494947/ A POWERFUL hurricane and two tropical storms threaten to wreak more destruction in the waterlogged Caribbean and southeastern US in the coming days. Tropical Storm Hanna closed in on the southeaster... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493173/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:51:06 -0400 News.com.au http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493173/ 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/80f72651582f2c13/id/17492645/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:44:48 -0400 Yahoo!7 News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17492645/ ’s Tenth District, which includes Albuquerque, Santa Fe and nothern New Mexico, remained modest in early April and May, according to the Fed’s latest http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17492764/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:09:13 -0400 Business Journal http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17492764/ PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti, Sept. 4 (UPI) -- The ongoing instability in Haiti has prompted a recommendation that the U.N. mission in the country be extended. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said in a re... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493274/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:32:51 -0400 Middle East Times http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493274/ 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/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493285/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:27:38 -0400 Gadsden Times http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493285/ President Michelle Bachelet declared southern Chile's entire (Patagonia) Region IX (Araucanía) a “catastrophe zone” due to this past week’s intense rainfall and flooding. http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493568/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:32:47 -0400 Merco Press http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493568/ Residents line up for a free meal from the Salvation Army in front of the Superdome on Sept. 4, 2008, in New Orleans. City residents were allowed to return home Wednesday although many are still witho... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493936/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:47:15 -0400 ABC News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493936/ , opening the way for cheaper, generic versions to be used in the country's fight against the disease, according to a report from Reuters. A health ministry spokesman said the patent request by Foste... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493344/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:06:45 -0400 Silicon Valley/San Jose Business Journal http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493344/ Stories from the Ethnic Media Carl Deal and Tia Lessin on their documentary film "Trouble the Water" about the affects Huricane Katrina on the people of New Orleans Jeff Kelley, curator of SF MOMA on ... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493544/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:54:32 -0400 NCM http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493544/ MIAMI — A powerful hurricane and two tropical storms on Thursday threaten to wreak more destruction in the waterlogged Caribbean and southeastern United States in the coming days. Tropical Sto... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493266/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:30:52 -0400 Japan Today http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493266/ 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/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493287/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:25:03 -0400 Denver Post http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493287/ 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/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493282/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 22:06:22 -0400 Dallas Business Journal http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493282/ September 4, 2008—"If I couldn't swim, I would have been dead," said one Haitian survivor after tropical storm Hanna caused massive flooding, cutting off one city and killing dozens.© 2008 ... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493260/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:53:40 -0400 National Geographic News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493260/ Emergency crews used helicopters today to rescue some of the nearly 100,000 people hit by the worst rain in three decades in southern Chile, where at least four people have died, officials said. http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493305/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 21:18:26 -0400 SBS http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17493305/ Once upon a time O.J. Simpson was a national sports hero, showered with adulation and endorsement contracts. He was the "Juice" — a Hall of Fame football star, actor, TV commentator and pitchman... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17489299/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:51:29 -0400 ABC News http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17489299/ GONAIVES, Haiti — Floodwaters frustrated efforts by Argentine peacekeepers to distribute food at orphanages marooned by Tropical Storm Hanna on Thursday. They hunkered down in their base as despe... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488297/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:27:47 -0400 Globe and Mail http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488297/ SANTIAGO -- Emergency crews used helicopters Thursday to rescue some of the nearly 100,000 people hit by the worst rains in three decades in southern Chile, where at least four people have died, offic... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488768/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:05:37 -0400 Inquirer http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488768/ SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Independent sugar cane suppliers in Brazil's top producing state, Sao Paulo, signed an agreement with the state's government on Thursday setting a date to stop cane burning, Braz... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488570/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:55:43 -0400 Reuters http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488570/ Mexico City - Teresa Trujillo's family income took a hit when her husband, a carpenter and the family's sole breadwinner, lost his job due to an illness just as food prices in Mexico started to skyro... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488559/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:23:29 -0400 Christian Science Monitor http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488559/ A jury has been selected in Miami federal court to hear the trial of a Venezuelan man accused of acting as a foreign agent to cover up a Latin American political cash scandal.U.S. District Judge Joan ... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488575/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:19:43 -0400 Miami Herald http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488575/ Chile’s August Consumer Prices Index, CPI, increased 0.9% accumulating 6.5% in the first eight months of the year and 9.3% in the last twelve months (down from 9.5% in July/June), according to t... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488827/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:33:24 -0400 Merco Press http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488827/ 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/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488474/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:21:39 -0400 ANS http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488474/ Mexico-US frontier culture roughly sundered By Adam Thomson in Candelaria, TexasPublished: September 4 2008 03:00 | Last updated: September 4 2008 03:00 http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488552/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:16:02 -0400 Financial Times http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488552/ Haiti's president has said his country is facing a "catastrophe" after being hit by three storms in as many weeks, leaving more than 60 people dead. Tropical storm Hanna swept across Haiti for four d... http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488467/ Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:14:07 -0400 Al Jazeera http://story.trinidadtimes.com/index.php/ct/9/cid/80f72651582f2c13/id/17488467/