RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Republican U.S. congressman George Santos, who has Brazilian heritage, agreed to settle a lawsuit in which he was accused of bouncing checks to buy clothes in a Rio de Janeiro clothing store over a decade ago, a court in Rio said.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest fell 68% in April from the previous year, preliminary government data showed yesterday, a positive reading for President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva as it represents the first major drop under his watch.
(Trinidad Guardian) The removal of jury trials is not an infringement on a person’s constitutional rights, says Attorney General Reginald Armour.
(Trinidad Guardian) St Helena residents yesterday expressed skepticism that Police Commissioner Erla Harewood-Christopher will be able to keep her promise to reduce killings by June.
(Trinidad Guardian) A couple was murdered while their 12-year-old daughter was left fighting for her life after being shot in the head during a home invasion yesterday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – More than 115,600 children in Haiti are expected to suffer severe wasting from malnutrition this year, the United Nations children’s agency UNICEF said yesterday, as an escalation of armed violence worsens food insecurity and a cholera outbreak.
(Trinidad Guardian) Attorney General Reginald Armour has apologised to the Barbadian government and the Royal Barbados Police Force for the slur cast on that island’s police force, following its assistance to the T&T Police Service in seeking to bring Brent Thomas to justice.
(Trinidad Express) Alisha Hosein, whose husband Ganesh Deopersad was murdered at his Tortuga home in March, faced a Couva magistrate yesterday in relation to the gardener’s death.
(Trinidad Guardian) Attorney General Reginald Armour has apologised to the Barbadian government and the Royal Barbados Police Force for the slur cast on that island’s police force, following its assistance to the T&T Police Service in seeking to bring Brent Thomas to justice.
(Trinidad Express) ALISHA Hosein, whose husband Ganesh Deopersad was murdered at his Tortuga home in March, faced a Couva magistrate yesterday in relation to the gardener’s death.
NIIGATA, Japan, (Reuters) – Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad expressed serious concerns today that Argentina’s economic challenges and a major drought there could affect the country’s “political destiny” and usher in an extremist government.
(Trinidad Guardian) Barbados Attorney General Dale Marshall yesterday made it clear that his government was not to blame in the highly controversial October 2022 arrest of Trinidadian Brent Thomas in Barbados and his subsequent transfer to T&T.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador said today he would present a constitutional reform to have judges and magistrates elected by the people.
(Trinidad Guardian) Barbados Attorney General Dale Marshall yesterday made it clear that his government was not to blame in the highly controversial October 2022 arrest of Trinidadian Brent Thomas in Barbados and his subsequent transfer to T&T.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The South East Regional Health Authority (SERHA) has acknowledged that the Victoria Jubilee Hospital (VJH) erred in not taking custody of an abandoned day-old baby, dubbed Baby Sunshine, and transporting her to the Bustamante Hospital for Children.
(Jamaican gleaner) The celebratory teacher’s week spirit has been dampened at the Green Park Primary School in Sandy Bay Clarendon, following the death of beloved vice principal Audrienne Hayles-Edwards on Monday.
(Trinidad Express) Blanchisseuse is waking up to murder, again. The victim has been identified as Derron Clarke, alias Tubby, of Paradise Hill, Upper Blanchisseuse.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador today criticized the country’s judiciary as “rotten,” one day after the Supreme Court invalidated part of a set of electoral reforms he had championed.
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) today said it has noted that the Constitution of Saint Lucia (Amendment) Act has been assented to by the Governor General of Saint Lucia and that state has now officially acceded to the CCJ’s Appellate Jurisdiction.
(Trinidad Express) President Christine Kangaloo has conferred senior counsel “silk” to 17 attorneys including her husband Kerwyn Garcia and brother Colin Kangaloo.
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