Politics

• Tuesday, April 26th 2011 - 03:30 UTC

  Gibraltar Regiment will provide the Queen’s Guard at Buckingham Palace in 2012

  

  The Royal Gibraltar Regiment will be conducting Royal Public Duties and The Queen's Guard in London during April next year, Lt Col Colin Risso has confirmed in an interview with the Gibraltar Chronicle.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2011 - 02:53 UTC

  Colombia strikes new oil well; production in March averaging 884.000 bpd

  

  Colombia’s state-run petroleum company Ecopetrol announced the results of testing from an oil well in the south of the country with initial findings showing production levels to average 92 barrels of oil a day reported the Bogotá press.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2011 - 02:29 UTC

  Commonwealth Games in Delhi organizer arrested on corruption allegations

  

  The chief organiser of the 2010 Commonwealth Games in Delhi has been arrested following an investigation into allegations of corruption. Suresh Kalmadi was removed from his post in January.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2011 - 02:20 UTC

  Pacific accord “no conflict” for Mercosur or Unasur, says Brazil

  

  The pro-business block initiative that will be signed this week by Pacific countries leaders from Chile, Peru, Mexico and Colombia presents no potential conflict for Brazil or Mercosur said on Monday the Brazilian Foreign Affairs ministry.

• Tuesday, April 26th 2011 - 01:49 UTC

  Rousseff admits she is “immensely worried” with inflation

  

  Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff said on Monday she is “immensely worried” about inflation near the top of the official target range and that the government will act to keep prices from rising further.

• Monday, April 25th 2011 - 07:54 UTC

  Rousseff further intervenes in Brazil’s leading corporation

  

  Vale, the world’s largest iron-ore producer, named Brazil’s Deputy Finance Minister Nelson Barbosa, (a close ally of President Dilma Rousseff) as a member of the board after announcing earlier this month the replacement of its chief executive officer.

• Monday, April 25th 2011 - 07:51 UTC

  G20 to address commodity prices “volatility” in special meeting in Argentina

  

  G-20 Economy ministers will be meeting May 18/19 in Argentina to address commodity prices’ variations, according to Argentine sources. The meeting was agreed during the recent IMF/World Bank spring assemblies in Washington, following on Argentina’s deep concern about the “volatility” of commodity prices.

• Monday, April 25th 2011 - 07:45 UTC

  Pro business Peru, Colombia, Chile and Mexico to sign Pacific Agreement

  

  Peruvian president Alan Garcia will be hosting this week his peers from Colombia, Chile and Mexico to subscribe the so-called Pacific (Ocean) Agreement with the purpose of integrating the four countries economies.

• Monday, April 25th 2011 - 07:16 UTC

  Former British PM Brown advisor to the World Economic Forum

  

  Former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown has been appointed as an unpaid advisor to the World Economic Forum. He is to be the chairman of a new policy and initiatives co-ordination board.

• Monday, April 25th 2011 - 07:09 UTC

  An Italian, ‘Super Mario’, the leading candidate to replace Trichet at ECB

  

  France considers Bank of Italy Governor Mario Draghi the leading candidate to succeed Jean-Claude Trichet at the helm of the European Central Bank. However the key decision maker, German Chancellor Angela Merkel, has yet to tip her hand. Merkel’s aides have indicated that Germany, Europe’s biggest economy, no longer insists on a German to succeed Trichet.