IPS Inter Press Service - CaribbeanIPS, civil society's leading news agency, is an independent voice from the South and for development, delving into globalisation for the stories underneath.LATIN AMERICA: Factors in Climbing Food Prices - A Bakers Dozen- (Found June 29, 2008 ) CARACAS, Jun 4 (IPS) - Where todays high food prices are concerned, there are 13 villains of the piece: the structural and circumstantial causes associated with supply and demand, according to the Latin American and Caribbean Economic System (SELA), which says that to tackle them, regional cooperation is essential.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42656 HEALTH-LATIN AMERICA: Tobacco Regulations as Solid as Smoke- (Found June 29, 2008 ) MEXICO CITY, Jun 4 (Tierramrica) - Government funds to fight tobacco use in Latin America, which kills one million people each year, pale in comparison to the health costs of this epidemic and receive only a small portion of the tax revenues from the tobacco industry.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42657 HAITI: Kidnappings Rise as Economic Woes Deepen- (Found June 29, 2008 ) PORT-AU-PRINCE, Jun 5 (IPS) - Several thousand people, including remnants of the wealthy and educated class who remain in Haiti, took to the streets of Port-au-Prince Wednesday to rail against what they say is government inaction amid a rise in kidnappings.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42677 HEALTH-CUBA: Free Sex Change Operations Approved- (Found June 29, 2008 ) HAVANA, Jun 6 (IPS) - New horizons opened up for transsexuals in Cuba with the approval of a Public Health Ministry resolution that establishes guidelines for their health care, including free gender reassignment operations.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42693 RIGHTS-US: Mixed Appeals Verdict for "Cuban Five"- (Found June 29, 2008 ) ATLANTA, Georgia, Jun 6 (IPS) - Activists plan to protest a federal appeals court ruling Wednesday to uphold the convictions of five Cuban intelligence agents accused of spying in the United States.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42697 CUBA: A City Drinks in Change- (Found June 29, 2008 ) HOLGUN, Cuba, Jun 10 (IPS) - Afflicted for far too long by severe drought, which concentrated all minds on how to get water to entire communities of people, this eastern Cuban city seems at long last to be drinking its fill, and its appearance is completely different from what it looked like two or three years ago.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42730 TRINIDAD: "There Are Monsters Among Us"- (Found June 29, 2008 ) PORT OF SPAIN, Jun 11 (IPS) - Eight-year-old Hope Arismandez never stood a chance. The autopsy report said she had been stabbed repeatedly, hit on the back of the head with a blunt object and her throat slit.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42745 CUBA: Government Deports US Citizen Wanted for Child Sex Abuse- June 29, 2008 HAVANA, Jun 13 (IPS) - The Cuban government deported a U.S. citizen accused of sexually abusing a young girl in Costa Rica, less than two weeks after Washington included the Caribbean island on a list of countries that it says are not doing enough to combat child trafficking.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42807 MIGRATION: More and More Cubans Entering US through Mexico- (Found June 29, 2008 ) MEXICO CITY, Jun 17 (IPS) - The number of Cuban migrants intercepted in Mexico climbed from 254 in 2002 to 1,359 in 2007. And nearly 1,000 were detained in the first four months of this year alone -- the visible face of a people smuggling business that apparently operates in collusion with the police and other corrupt authorities.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42836 CUBA: Dont Worry, Be Ready - for Hurricanes- (Found June 29, 2008 ) HAVANA, Jun 17 (IPS) - Cuba has decided not to make public announcements of the overall outlook for the coming hurricane season, because it makes little practical difference to peoples lives and tends to create false apprehensions, said Jos Rubiera, regarded as this Caribbean countrys top expert on hurricanes.http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=42845 |