Politics

• Thursday, June 25th 2015 - 07:33 UTC

  Brazilian central bank inflation estimates anticipate increase in interest rates

  

  The Brazilian Central Bank on Wednesday raised its inflation estimate for 2015 to 9%, or almost double the midpoint in the official range and well above the 6.5% top end target, and said the economy may contract by 1.1% this year, marking the worst performance since 1990.

• Thursday, June 25th 2015 - 07:22 UTC

  Guyana gives assurances to Exxon to keep exploring for oil, despite Venezuela's threats

  

  Venezuela’s recent claim on Guyana’s maritime territory is a “legal absurdity” and US oil firm ExxonMobil will continue to work as scheduled, President David Granger has said. Labeling Caracas’ claim as the worst intrusion the country has ever had on its sovereignty, the President said his government has made its position on the claim by Venezuela clear to the oil company.

• Thursday, June 25th 2015 - 06:56 UTC

  UK confirms interest in Latin America with the “Pacific Alliance Chevening scholarships”,

  

  UK Foreign Office Minister Hugo Swire has introduced a new set of Chevening scholarships for Latin America, the “Pacific Alliance Chevening scholarships”, arguing that the success of the Pacific Alliance forms an integral part of Britain's re-engagement with the region.

• Thursday, June 25th 2015 - 06:33 UTC

  Falklands delegates will again ask Decolonization Committee to delist the Islands

  

  Falkland Islands elected lawmakers with be delivering speeches on Thursday before the United Nations Decolonization Committee as petitioners requesting C24 de-lists the Islands from the Non Self Governing Territories, upholds the Falkland Islanders right to self determination and frees them from the continuous Argentine bullying and harassment.

• Wednesday, June 24th 2015 - 08:38 UTC

  Petrobras scandal ramifications getting closer to Lula da Silva

  

  One of Brazil's leading weekly magazines, Epoca, has revealed that former president Lula da Silva could be investigated over corruption allegations following on the imprisonment of the Odebrecht Group CEO, (Marcelo Odebrecht) which is one of the country's largest private corporations and employers, and for which Lula did much lobbying and sponsoring for public works projects in Dominican Republic, Cuba, Venezuela and Ghana.

• Wednesday, June 24th 2015 - 08:29 UTC

  Workers Party is old and out of touch, “an internal revolution is needed”, blasts Lula da Silva

  

  Former President Lula da Silva again blasted Brazil's governing Workers Party, an organization he founded, as old and out of touch. “We have to define whether we want to save our skins and our jobs or if we want to save our project,” Lula da Silva said in Sao Paulo during a seminar on democracy, which he attended along with former Spanish Prime Minister Felipe Gonzalez.

• Wednesday, June 24th 2015 - 08:17 UTC

  South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands launch crown coin with the humpback whale

  

  The Treasury of South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands have launched a crown coin which features some the most amazing wildlife found in and around the South Atlantic Ocean. Following the tradition of depicting indigenous local wildlife, this latest crown issued by South Georgia & South Sandwich Islands features the amazing Humpback Whale.

• Wednesday, June 24th 2015 - 08:06 UTC

  Falklands delegate attending annual Red Ensign Group conference in Bermuda

  

  The Falkland Islands is represented at the 25th Annual Red Ensign Group, REG, conference which is taking place in the town of St George's, Bermuda. Minister of Tourism Development and Transport Shawn Crockwell, delivered the opening remarks and welcomed the overseas delegates attending the conference that the Bermuda Department of Maritime Administration is hosting.

• Wednesday, June 24th 2015 - 07:09 UTC

  Spain to question Gibraltar’s exclusion from EU tax havens blacklist

  

  Spain will call on the European Commission to include Gibraltar on the EU blacklist of tax havens published last week, it emerged over the weekend. The list names the 30 top tax havens as identified by EU countries, but Gibraltar is not on it. Only nine of the EU’s 28 members - among them Spain - view the Rock as a harmful jurisdiction for taxation.

• Wednesday, June 24th 2015 - 06:58 UTC

  Malvinas-veteran new Army chief; former head resigns amid claims of human rights violations

  

  The head of Argentina's army, Major General Cesar Milani long accused of human rights violations, has resigned and will be replaced by General Ricardo Luis Cundom, a Malvinas conflict veteran.