(Jamaica Gleaner) Jamaica’s foremost anti-corruption body, the Integrity Commission (IC), has rejected as “misleading” and “false” suggestions by two senior public officials of overreach and entrapment in its verification process of statutory declarations.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – A mudslide brought on by heavy rains in northwest Colombia killed at least 17 people and injured 35, authorities said today.
(Trinidad Guardian) Over 400 members of staff who work in government offices across multiple ministries have been adequately trained on the new dress code policy for members of the public who visit these offices to conduct business.
(Trinidad Guardian) Massy Holdings Ltd spent US$24.5 million (TT$166.35 million) to acquire a warehouse in Jacksonville, Florida in October 2023, ten months after it paid US$47 million to purchase Rowe’s IGA, a chain of seven supermarkets in the town.
(Trinidad Guardian) Acting Commissioner of Prisons Deopersad Ramoutar on Thursday evening confirmed that one of his officers had been killed during a gun attack in Arima.
(Trinidad Express) It is possible that as many as six people in the country have died from the flu so far this year, a Ministry of Health doctor said yesterday.
PARAMARIBO (Reuters) – The lawyer representing Suriname’s ex-President Desi Bouterse, who has yet to turn himself in to start a prison sentence for involvement in the murder of 15 activists in 1982, said today he planned to speak with his client.
(Trinidad Express) It is possible that as many as six people in the country have died from the flu so far this year, a Ministry of Health doctor said yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Acting Commissioner of Prisons Deopersad Ramoutar last evening confirmed that one of his officers had been killed during a gun attack in Arima.
(Trinidad Guardian) Business owners at Long Circular Mall, St James, are calling for heightened security following a shooting incident in the mall’s ground level car park yesterday.
QUITO/LATACUNGA, Ecuador (Reuters) – Ecuadorean President Daniel Noboa laid out plans for two new high-security prisons on Thursday, part of his pledge to wage war on drug gangs, as the families of nearly 180 prison staff being held hostage by inmates demanded action to rescue them.
(Trinidad Express) Another officer from the St Joseph Police Station is facing disciplinary action based on content that was leaked online.
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s annual inflation rate sped past 211% in December, official data showed on Thursday, hitting the highest level since the early 1990s as new libertarian President Javier Milei seeks to head off hyperinflation with tough austerity measures.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentine retiree Susana Barrio says she no longer invites her friends over for the traditional asado barbecue, long a key part of social life in the South American farming nation.
(Trinidad Guardian) A little over a week after Calida Schamber and her mother Carmelita De Leon were gunned down at their Point Cumana, home, a 48-year-old soldier was charged with their murders.
QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador President Daniel Noboa said yesterday that his country was “at war” with drug gangs who are holding more than 130 prison guards and other staff hostage, amid a dramatic surge in violence that saw gunmen briefly take over a TV live broadcast and explosions in multiple cities.
PARAMARIBO, (Reuters) – Former Surinamese President Desi Bouterse, whose conviction for involvement in the killing of 15 people more than four decades ago was upheld in December, must report to a jail to serve his sentence, the public prosecutor said today.
(Trinidad Guardian) As the country bid a tearful but celebrative farewell to former prime minister Basdeo Panday yesterday, tales of his life as a warrior for the vulnerable, a visionary leader, and a tender father showed that his legacy will live on for generations.
(Trinidad Express) “Our father was fearless, honest, strong-willed, disciplined, polite, humble, kind, selfless, hard-working like no one I’ve ever know or will ever know.”
(Trinidad Express) Former President of the senate Timothy Hamel Smith and former PNM Government minister Karen Nunez Tishera jumped the railing to get onto the compound of the Southern Academy of Performing Arts to try to sit in the auditorium for the funeral service of the late Basdeo Panday.
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