BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – U.S. diplomats have assured Brazil’s leading presidential candidate, leftist former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, that they will swiftly recognize the winner of next month’s election, two sources told Reuters, seeking to avert any attempt to contest a legitimate result or sow chaos after the vote.
(Barbados Nation) Caricom member states have been challenged to hold frank discussions on managed migration to support each other’s developmental priorities.
(Trinidad Express) Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Reginald Armour has reiterated his stance for Trinidad and Tobago to make the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) the final appellate court, replacing the United Kingdom-based Privy Council.
(Jamaica Observer) The teenage boy convicted of raping, buggering, and strangling to death a nine-year-old girl in 2018 has been sentenced to life in prison with eligibility for parole after 23 years and nine months.
(Barbados Nation) Government will end the mask-wearing mandate and travel protocols related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) at midnight on Thursday in Barbados.
(Jamaican Observer) As outrage intensifies over the alleged rape of a student at a St Mary high school, the victim’s family has opted to pull her from the public education system.
(Barbados Nation) Government will end the mask-wearing mandate and travel protocols related to the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) at midnight on Thursday in Barbados.
(Trinidad Guardian) Frustrated by the cries of a nine-month-old baby girl, a female relative reportedly fed the baby a deadly mixture of poison and milk in her bottle.
(Trinidad Guardian) It’s been six years since Ria Sookdeo was snatched away from her family after dropping her children off to school in South Trinidad.
(Trinidad Express) Businessman Hugh Leong Poi has been charged with conspiring to defraud the State of $1.4 million in motor vehicle taxes from the purchase of a $2.3 million Mercedes-Benz AMG G63.
(Trinidad Express) With the start of the new law term, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) came in for criticism from judges from the Court of Appeal who called on the State to get its act together.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Inter-American Development Bank’s (IDB) board of directors voted unanimously today to recommend the removal of President Mauricio Claver-Carone following an independent ethics investigation, two sources familiar with the vote said.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – A Honduran court sentenced the country’s former first lady, Rosa Bonilla, to 14 years in prison on Wednesday on charges of fraud and misappropriation of funds destined for social programs, a judicial spokesperson said.
(Trinidad Express) With the start of the new law term, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) came in for criticism from judges from the Court of Appeal who called on the State to get its act together.
(Trinidad Express) Businessman Hugh Leong Poi has been charged with conspiring to defraud the State of $1.4 million in motor vehicle taxes from the purchase of a $2.3 million Mercedes-Benz AMG G63.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica, Barbados, and Trinidad and Tobago are only paying a fraction of the sum agreed on to fund The University of the West Indies (UWI), owing the regional institution approximately US$48 million as at July 31, 2021.
(Jamaica Observer) DEAN of the Teachers’ Colleges of Jamaica (TCJ) Dr Garth Anderson is urging Parliament to examine Britain’s rationale for abolishing the General Teaching Council for England (GTCE) before it forges ahead with a legal framework which is seen as punitive and egregious to some extent.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States plans to resume full immigrant visa processing in Havana for the first time since 2017, a move that follows high-level talks earlier this year between the two countries, U.S.
MEXICO CITY/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – An outside firm hired to investigate whistleblower allegations found evidence that Inter-American Development Bank President Mauricio Claver-Carone engaged in an intimate relationship with a staffer, three sources briefed on the probe told Reuters.
SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico/SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic, (Reuters) – Hurricane Fiona bore down on Turks and Caicos Islands today as a powerful Category 3 storm, threatening to devastate the tiny Caribbean archipelago after cutting a path of destruction through the Dominican Republic and Puerto Rico.
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