GEORGETOWN, Guyana, DEMERARA WAVES – “I’m leaving later this year, the presidency, but with a deep sense of satisfaction that we have done quite a few of the things that we have promised. I do so because we have kept faith with our promises.”
CRAIG COZIER, Associated Press
GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Pacer Ravi Rampaul claimed 4-45 and Lendl Simmons followed with an unbeaten 77 as West Indies strode to a 10-wicket victory over Pakistan in the cricket one-day international series finale at National Stadium on Thursday.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — The Coast Guard says three Canadians and a U.S. citizen were apparently stricken with food poisoning aboard a sailboat off Puerto Rico’s northern coast and had to be rushed to a hospital.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, DEMERARA WAVES – A man has been arrested in connection with the shooting death of his father with an improvised shotgun.
OSCAR VILLALBA, Associated Press
SAN JUAN DE SABINAS, Mexico (AP) — Mexican officials who had hoped to call in Chilean experts to help rescue 14 miners trapped in a coal mine instead have had to break the tragic news to relatives that five bodies have already been found and there is little hope the nine others have survived.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuela says its annual inflation has declined in the past month and stands at 22.9 percent.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) — A celebrity-enhanced ACLU delegation criticized Puerto Rico’s government Tuesday for using police to keep the island’s main university system open during a strike over a new fee, with members saying they found clear evidence in which officers abused students during the protests.
SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic (AP) — A jockey has been thrown from his horse and killed during a race in the Dominican Republic.
CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez is condemning the killing of one of Moammar Gadhafi’s sons and three of his grandchildren in a NATO airstrike in Libya.
ANDREA RODRIGUEZ, Associated Press
PETER ORSI, Associated Press
HAVANA (AP) — Hundreds of thousands of Cubans marched through Havana and other cities on Sunday to mark May Day in a demonstration touted as a vast show of support for economic changes recently approved by the Communist Party — even though the people holding placards and shouting slogans haven’t seen the details yet.
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