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Brigitte Garcia

Ecuador’s youngest mayor found shot to death alongside advisor

QUITO, (Reuters) – Ecuador’s youngest mayor, Brigitte Garcia, and an advisor were found shot dead in a car today, said police in the South American country, which is in the grips of a wave of violence that authorities blame on drug trafficking National police said they were investigating the deaths of Garcia, the 27-year-old mayor of San Vicente, and Jairo Loor, after the discovery of their bodies in the province of Manabi.

Trinidad: State to pay Venezuelan boy TT$2.4m

(Trinidad Express) In what is one of the largest awards of damages made by the courts in a case for false imprisonment, the High Court has directed that the State pay a 16-year-old Venezuelan boy $2.4 milli­on, exclusive of interest, after he was unlawfully detained for 456 days at the Heliport, Chaguaramas.

CIA Director visits

President Irfaan Ali (sixth from right) with US Central Intelligence Agency Director William Burns (fifth from right) and others at State House yesterday.

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