10 years after Dana Seetahal’s murder … (Trinidad Guardian) Ten years after the murder of Dana Seetahal, SC, Direc-tor of Public Prosecutions Roger Gaspard says his office is still awaiting documents from the Judiciary needed for the case to be set for trial.
(Trinidad Express) Roadside vendors are defending the cost of their goods against criticism from consumers that the prices of pomerac and mango are too high when compared to imported apples.
(Trinidad Express) Comedian and chutney singer Kenneth Supersad, of Nahh News fame, yesterday received an apology from officers of the Arouca Police Station after he had been turned away while making a robbery report on Thursday.
BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – From Mexicans left homeless by rising seas to Colombians affected by coral bleaching, hundreds of people are telling the top human rights court in the Americas what climate change means to them in an historic case that could shape international law.
(Reuters) – Heavy rains battering Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul have killed 39 people, local authorities said yesterday, and the death toll is expected to rise as dozens still have not been accounted for.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan opposition candidate Edmundo Gonzalez said yesterday that President Nicolas Maduro’s government would have already banned him from public office if it had been planning on blocking his presidential candidacy.
(Reuters) – Panama’s top court today ruled the presidential candidacy of ex-President Ricardo Martinelli’s former running mate Jose Raul Mulino is constitutional, days before the election.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – The majority of Haiti’s transition council who had nominated an interim prime minister earlier this week has walked back the decision, exposing the internal turmoil of the group charged with leading the Caribbean nation out of a prolonged crisis.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – The Venezuelan government is aiming to make up for the return of U.S.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The death toll from heavy rains in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul rose to 29, local authorities said last evening, as the state government declared a state of public calamity to handle the dramatic situation.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil declared itself yesterday as free of foot and mouth disease without vaccination, and will request World Organization for Animal Health (WOAH) to recognize that status as it seeks to open more markets for its meat exports.
(Trinidad Guardian) Trinidad and Tobago now joins several other CARICOM countries in formally recognising the State of Palestine.
(Trinidad Express) The owner of Crystal Waters Limited was shot and killed last night.
(Trinidad Guardian) A global outbreak of High Pathogenicity Avian Influenza (HPAI), also known as bird flu or avian flu, has prompted the Chief Veterinary Officer to ban the importation of poultry from Miami, Florida via both air and sea.
(Trinidad Guardian) Attorney General Reginald Armour, SC, has deemed the contents of a legal letter sent to him by Auditor General Jaiwantie Ramdass as “threats” and said he will not be “intimidated” in the course of his duties.
(Trinidad Guardian) A large group of British American Insurance Company (BAICO) policyholders from several Eastern Caribbean countries will have to wait to learn the fate of their lawsuit over a move by the T&T government to bail out only local financial subsidiaries of CL Financial (CLF).
(Trinidad Guardian) She has reached the remarkable age of 110, yet centenarian Dharmie Deo, affectionately known as Moyo, still does not wear glasses.
(Trinidad Express) Auditor General Jaiwantie Ramdass has said that her independent office is under “political” attack, and she has threatened to haul Attorney General Reginald Armour before the courts should the State refuse to pay the legal costs for her to defend herself in this regard.
(Trinidad Express) Compared with other Caribbean partners, particularly Barbados, Trinidad and Tobago has got a raw deal in terms of World Cup Cricket matches to be played on local soil.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Gustavo Petro said yesterday that an inventory of military weapons showed over a million bullets, thousands of explosives, including grenades, and some missiles were missing from military bases, blaming corruption for the lost weapons.
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