(Trinidad Guardian) The National Hurricane Center (NHC) has placed the Lesser Antilles on alert as a tropical disturbance dubbed Invest 95L is forecast to develop into a tropical depression or tropical storm east of the Windward Islands.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Government of Antigua and Barbuda has decided to introduce legislation to expunge criminal records for individuals convicted of possessing small amounts of marijuana .
(Trinidad Guardian) Raoul Glynn, the managing director of West Indian Tobacco Company (Witco), the cigarette manufacturer, has been placed on administrative leave with pay, pending an internal investigation.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was sentenced by a U.S.
(Trinidad Express) Beauty queen contestant Sadna Gangoo was gunned down near her workplace in Princes Town yesterday afternoon.
Son: He let alcohol control him (Trinidad Express) A Ste Madeleine man was fatally stabbed during a domestic dispute with a close relative at his house on Monday night.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivian armed forces pulled back from the presidential palace in La Paz this evening and a general was arrested after President Luis Arce slammed a “coup” attempt against the government and called for international support.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez was sentenced by a U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) UNC Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar has called out the Government on Indian businessman Naveen Jindal, questioning if it was “the Venezuelans” who put the Government on to Jindal to get the Pointe-a-Pierre refinery.
(Trinidad Guardian) Less than a year after a 23-year-old father of two was kidnapped, he was gunned down at his job site in Point Fortin yesterday morning.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The first contingent of Kenyan police arrived in the Haitian capital yesterday to launch a long-awaited peacekeeping mission in the Caribbean country that has been ravaged by gang violence, even as deadly protests back home prompted doubts.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Interpol’s executive committee yesterday for the first time elected a police official from a developing nation to head the international police agency, Valdecy Urquiza from Brazil.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A majority of the justices on Brazil’s Supreme Court are in favor of decriminalizing the possession of marijuana for personal consumption, following a crucial vote yesterday.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state oil company PDVSA has begun using tankers that navigate off radar to supply its closest political ally, Cuba, as a fleet of state-owned vessels that have historically covered the route dwindles, according to documents and ship monitoring services.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Record floods that killed over 170 people and displaced half a million in southern Brazil are a warning sign of more disasters to come throughout the Americas because of climate change, an official at the United Nations’ refugee agency said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) The University of the West Indies Seismic Research Centre has recorded 27 aftershocks following Saturday night’s earthquake northwest of Trinidad, which caused shaking from St Vincent to Suriname.
(Trinidad Guardian) A delegation of Indian businessmen is in the country to pursue opportunities in T&T’s manufacturing, health, digital, agriculture and tourism sectors.
(Trinidad Guardian) Three men are dead and a fourth was wounded after gunmen stormed a house in Matura early on Sunday morning.
(Reuters) – A Miami court today sentenced Germine “Yonyon” Joly, a former leader of a notorious Haitian gang known as 400 Mawozo, to 35 years in prison for his role in laundering kidnap ransoms and illegally trafficking dozens of U.S.
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – The first Kenyan police officers assigned to tackle rampant gang violence in Haiti are leaving Kenya tomorrow and are set to arrive this week, the U.S.
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