BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Eight people who took care of soccer legend Diego Maradona will be tried in Argentina courts for homicide, according to a ruling released yesterday following an investigation into his November 2020 death due to cardiac arrest.
(Reuters) – Brazilian miner Vale SA VALE3.SA expects to spend $400 million in 2022 to decommission its tailings dams, aiming to have 12 of its 30 structures eliminated by the end of the year, the company told Reuters on Tuesday.
(Trinidad Express) A 49-year-old man was killed on Sunday evening in Tyrico in what police have described as “a freak motor vehicular accident”.
(Trinidad Guardian) Consumers should be prepared to pay almost $20 or, in some cases, even more for a two-kilo bag of flour effective today, as they will have to fork out as much as 28 per cent more on the retail price of flour, the National Flour Mills Limited has announced.
(Trinidad Express) While most people went out and about trying to enjoy the long Labour Day holiday weekend, police had their hands full with the murders of ten people between Friday night and yesterday afternoon.
(Trinidad Guardian) Attorney General Reginald Armour, SC, has finally broken his silence on his disqualification by a Miami court from representing this country in a civil matter directly tied to the Piarco International Airport fraud case, stating there was no attempt on his part to mislead the court in any way.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Thousands of indigenous demonstrators marched through Ecuador’s capital yesterday urging President Guillermo Lasso to agree to demands for economic and social support, the latest in a series of protests that have injured dozens and disrupted the economy.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The boat used by killed British journalist Dom Phillips and Brazilian indigenous expert Bruno Pereira to travel Brazil’s Amazon was found last evening, authorities said in a press statement.
(Barbados Nation) Prime Minister Mia Amor Mottley has tested positive for COVID 19.
BOGOTA/BUCARAMANGA, (Reuters) – Leftist Gustavo Petro, a former member of the M-19 guerrilla movement who has vowed profound social and economic change, won Colombia’s presidency yesterday, the first progressive to do so in the country’s history.
(Barbados Nation) The reputation of the island’s legal profession is taking “a battering” as four lawyers currently sit in prison convicted for stealing their clients’ money.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados is being held aloft as proof that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is no longer the institution that pushes countries into economic reforms at the expense of pain and social dislocation.
(Barbados Nation) The reputation of the island’s legal profession is taking “a battering” as four lawyers currently sit in prison convicted for stealing their clients’ money.
(Barbados Nation) Barbados is being held aloft as proof that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) is no longer the institution that pushes countries into economic reforms at the expense of pain and social dislocation.
(Trinidad Express) The family of missing Moruga farmer Sanjay Deodath has offered a reward of $20,000 to anyone with information that will lead to his safe return.
(Trinidad Express) An Unemployment Relief Programme (URP) worker said he was the last person to see murdered mother Leann Babb alive on Wednesday night.
(Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department has removed a former Venezuelan national treasurer and nephew of the country’s first lady from its sanctions list, it said yesterday.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Four people who confessed to taking part in the murder of a Paraguayan prosecutor were each sentenced to 23 years and six months in jail yesterday.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A forensic exam carried out on human remains found in the Amazon rainforest confirmed yesterday that they belonged to British journalist Dom Phillips, Brazil’s federal police said, adding that a search was underway for a man suspected of involvement in his killing.
KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Jamaica’s Supreme Court yesterday said authorities violated a man’s human rights by detaining and holding him for months without trial under a 2018 state of emergency, a ruling that challenges the suspension of rights as part of efforts to battle crime.
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