(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court Judge has ordered a little over $150,000 in compensation to a former media worker who was wrongly arrested and charged by police while filming at a crime scene.
Today, the Caribbean Examinations Council said it was informed that fireproof cabinets containing examination papers for nine subjects scheduled to be administered this week, were stolen from a school in Jamaica.
(Trinidad Express) The Court of Appeal on Monday dismissed Jules John Arjoon’s matter against the 27-year sentence imposed on him for manslaughter, rape, kidnapping and robbery.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – The Inter-American Commission on Human Rights has found the Cuban government responsible in the deaths of democracy activists Oswaldo Paya and Harold Cepero in a 2012 car accident, saying it had concluded that state agents were involved in the incident.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – The mayor of the violent border city Tijuana in northern Mexico, Montserrat Caballero, has moved into military barracks for her safety after she received threats, the president said yesterday.
ITAJAI, Brazil, (Reuters) – Last November, just hours before a social gathering for Haitian immigrants in the town of Itajai in the southern Brazilian state of Santa Catarina, event organizer Andrea Muller received a chilling message.
LIMA, (Reuters) – World Bank President Ajay Banga wants the lender to focus on more “scalable, replicable” projects across Latin America and elsewhere for transport and infrastructure and digitization of government and financial services to speed development.
(Jamaica Gleaner) As regional leaders and former leaders came together in Kingston yesterday for the opening ceremony of the Meeting of Haitian Stakeholders, who will use Jamaica as base for discussions on the way forward for the beleaguered CARICOM nation, it was Bahamas Prime Minister Philip Davis who spoke at length about the hopes and aspirations for the violence-torn republic.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Haitian Prime Minister Ariel Henry says he is attending crisis talks in Jamaica ‘to listen’ and help determine how the country can rebuilding from the latest rounds of political and economic turmoil.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia’s southern jungle will tell their own story about the ordeal, the father of the two youngest siblings said on Sunday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Since the shocking discovery of his father’s body down a precipice at his Cunupia farm nine weeks ago, Rishi Mahadeo has knocked on every single door seeking justice for him.
BEIJING (Reuters) – Honduras opened an embassy in China on Sunday, Chinese state media reported, after the Central American nation cut diplomatic relations with Taiwan earlier this year.
(Trinidad Express) “Weapons of mass destruction” were the words used yesterday by Senior Superintendent of the Southern Police Division Richard Smith to describe four AR-15 rifles and 11 magazines seized by police officers during a roadblock exercise in Debe on Friday night.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – Honduras opened an embassy in China today, Chinese state media reported, after the Central American nation cut diplomatic relations with Taiwan earlier this year.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – China has been spying from Cuba for some time and upgraded its intelligence collection facilities there in 2019, a Biden administration official said yesterday, following a report about a new spying effort underway on the island.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Four Indigenous children who were missing for more than five weeks in Colombia’s southern jungle, after surviving a plane crash which killed their mother, are in an “acceptable” state of health, the government said yesterday.