Politics

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 01:13 UTC

  Gibraltar unveils management scheme for its territorial waters

  

  The Gibraltar Government has provided for more protection for British Gibraltar Territorial Waters with the publication of the revised Southern Waters of Gibraltar Management Scheme.

• Tuesday, October 9th 2012 - 00:35 UTC

  Falkland Islands unravelled

  

  By Alicia Dunkley-Willis, Jamaica Observer - What does a country with 3,000 people and nearly half a million sheep look like? After 18 hours of flying and trekking through four airports, I was determined to find out.

• Monday, October 8th 2012 - 23:51 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez ruffling feathers with the Falklands to mask domestic failings

  

  Several British newspapers have turned their eyes on Argentina arguing that the challenging situation faced by President Cristina Fernandez both domestically and internationally is making her increasingly take advantage of the Falkland Islands dispute as a smokescreen to mask domestic failings.

• Monday, October 8th 2012 - 23:36 UTC

  Americas’ defense ministers’ summit rejects addressing Falklands’ issue

  

  Argentina’s intention of having the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty issue included in the agenda of the Americas Defense ministers’ conference currently taking place in Uruguay was rejected, mainly because of the positions from the US, Canada and several Caribbean states.

• Monday, October 8th 2012 - 20:17 UTC

  Unasur praise for the reliability and transparency of Venezuelan electoral system

  

  The head of the Unasur delegation sent to Venezuela to follow Sunday’s electoral process, Carlos Alvarez said that the country had given the world a lesson of democracy because of its extraordinary electoral system and the attitude of the opposition, among other positive elements.

• Monday, October 8th 2012 - 06:34 UTC

  Paraguay expects to be back in Mercosur “sooner than later”: before April 2013

  

  President Federio Franco said he trusted Paraguay would be fully re-incorporated to Mercosur before the general election scheduled for 21 April 2013. Paraguay is currently suspended from the trade block following the removal of Fernando Lugo as president, a decision voted almost unanimously by the country’s Senate but condemned by Mercosur and Unasur.

• Monday, October 8th 2012 - 06:32 UTC

  Falklands military exercises ‘routine’ and part of the defensive military presence

  

  The British government said that the military exercises scheduled to be carried out in the Falkland Islands beginning Monday are “annual and routine exercises.” The move had been strongly condemned by the Argentine government.

• Monday, October 8th 2012 - 06:28 UTC

  Ghana court to hold hearing on retained Argentina’s ARA Libertad on Tuesday

  

  Next Tuesday the Ghana Supreme Court will be holding a hearing to consider a motion from the government of President Cristina Fernandez requesting the annulment of the injunction retaining Argentina’s navy training vessel ARA Libertad following a legal proceeding from a hedge fund holding Argentine defaulted sovereign bonds.

• Monday, October 8th 2012 - 06:26 UTC

  Brazilian banks have room “to cut consumer lending rates in half”

  

  Brazilian banks have room to cut consumer lending rates in half, Brazil's Finance Minister Guido Mantega said in remarks published this weekend in the O Globo newspaper.

• Monday, October 8th 2012 - 06:23 UTC

  Rio mayor re-elected and will host Olympics; Sao Paulo, run off with the two main parties

  

  Rio Mayor Eduardo Paes has been re-elected with an overwhelming majority in the first round of Brazil's municipal elections. Paes from the centrist Democratic Movement Party will be in charge when Rio hosts the 2016 Olympics.