Tuesday, June 19, 2007

Daily Headlines: June 19, 2007

* For the fifth consecutive year a survey named Asuncion, Paraguay (image) as the world’s least expensive city.

* Recently freed Colombia guerilla “diplomat” Rodrigo Granda will travel to Cuba with the hope of negotiating a humanitarian deal.

* Vilma Espin- the wife of Cuban president Raul Castro- died yesterday at the age of seventy-seven years.

* A recent poll showed that 56% of respondents support Jamaican prime minister Portia Simpson Miller, yet 61% feel that the country is going in the “wrong direction.”

Sources- Angus Reid Consultants, Yahoo! News, Guardian UK

Image- Don Quixote

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