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A member of the audience asks Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley a question during yesterday’s meeting.
A member of the audience asks Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley a question during yesterday’s meeting.

T&T PM begs UK-based nationals to come home to fight crime

(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley yesterday urged T&T nationals in the United Kingdom to return home and help fight crime by sharing their experiences and expertise.

Jeffrey “Rafa” Dorant
Jeffrey “Rafa” Dorant

T&T steelpan player killed during robbery

(Trinidad Guardian) The steelpan fraternity has been plunged into mourning after an avid bass players of the Invaders Steel Orchestra was killed while trying to run away from a robbery in progress yesterday.

A military aircraft at Piarco International Airport waiting to take Venezuelan immigrants back to their homeland on Saturday. (Ministry of National Security photo)
A military aircraft at Piarco International Airport waiting to take Venezuelan immigrants back to their homeland on Saturday. (Ministry of National Security photo)

UN concerned at T&T’s return of Venezuelans

The United Nations System in Trinidad and Tobago yesterday expressed concern after authorities in  Twin-Island Republic announced they had facilitated the return to Venezuela of scores of Venezuelan citizens, including asylum seekers, who had been in detention.

Venezuela’s Maduro visits new Cuban leader

HAVANA, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro became on Saturday the first foreign leader to meet with Cuba’s Miguel Diaz-Canel since he became president of the communist-run island this week, underscoring the importance of the Venezuelan-Cuban alliance.

Jearlean John

T&T gov’t suffers setback in corruption lawsuit

(Trinidad Guardian) The Government has suffered a setback in its prosecution of a corruption lawsuit against former Housing Development Corporation (HDC) officials, two State officials and two private companies over a $175 million land deal.

Jamaican Prime Minister Andrew Holness (centre) and other Caribbean representatives during the meeting. (VOA photo)

Jamaica PM accepts UK PM’s apology over Caribbean migrants

(Trinidad Guardian) A sense of “relief” descended on the Caribbean community in Britain yesterday when British Prime Minister Theresa May apologised to Caribbean leaders over the treatment of members of the so-called “Windrush Generation,” who have been threatened with deportation after decades of living in the United Kingdom in what was a significant about turn on a decision by the British government to deport descendants of members of the Windrush Generation who are deemed illegal immigrants.

Brazil top court ruling could free Lula, derail graft fight

SAO PAULO,  (Reuters) – A decision looming before Brazil’s Supreme Court could free imprisoned former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva within days and deal the harshest blow yet to the South American country’s battle against corruption, prosecutors and judges say.

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