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A&V Oil and Gas CEO Hannif Nazim Baksh
A&V Oil and Gas CEO Hannif Nazim Baksh

Petrotrin terminates A&V lease after ‘fake oil’ claims

(Trinidad Guardian) The gloves are off – on all sides. Attorney for A&V Oil and Gas CEO Hannif Nazim Baksh, Ramesh Lawrence Maharaj SC, is challenging a decision by state-owned Petrotrin on Fridayto terminate the contract of the lease operator.

Pedro Pablo Kuczynski

Failed vote to oust president shakes up Peru’s politics

LIMA, (Reuters) – Peru’s President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski could end up the surprise winner of an attempt to oust him from power this week, after some opposition lawmakers broke ranks with party leaders to support him, opening a divide that might strengthen his hand.

Diana McCaulay

Jamaican jungle safe from mining – for now

MOORE TOWN, Jamaica,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Jamaican pledge to protect a mountainous jungle region from mining is a long-sought victory by an unlikely alliance of greens and the descendants of runaway slaves who claim the land.

Kizzy Bernard

Siblings in Piarco heist granted bail

(Trinidad Guardian) Siblings Kizzy Bernard, 38, and brother Kenol Singh, 32, of Longdenville, Chaguanas, who were charged in connection with the recent 5.5 million heist at the Piarco International Airport, were both yesterday granted bail by a Chaguanas magistrate totalling $.5 million.

Transgender slain; cops arrest guard

(Trinidad Guardian) Almost two weeks after the death of transgender woman Keon Alister Patterson in Port-of-Spain, another transgender woman, Keil Lensay, was murdered in Debe on Monday.

Kizzy Bernard

No bail for Piarco heist accused

(Trinidad Guardian) Kizzy Bernard, the lone woman accused in the $5.5 million robbery at the Piarco International Airport, was yesterday denied bail by an Arima magistrate.

OAS says Honduran presidential election should be redone

TEGUCIGALPA,  (Reuters) – The Organization of American States (OAS) said late on Sunday that Honduras should hold new presidential elections, after the electoral tribunal declared conservative President Juan Orlando Hernandez the official winner of the bitterly contested Nov.

Missing T&T man killed, burnt: Two charged

In T&T: Man charged with sister-in-law’s murder

(Trinidad Express) A Manzanilla man is expected to appear before a Sangre Grande Magistrate in connection with the December 9 shooting death of his 44-year-old sister-in-law and the wounding of her 18-year-old daughter and two others, at a bar in Manzanilla.

Ingrid Durity, with husband Christopher Samuel, and attorney Jerry Holder, right, outside the Sangre Grande Magistrate’s Court on Friday.

T&T woman freed of twins drowning

(Trinidad Guardian) A 62-year-old mother of five walked out the Sangre Grande Magistrate’s Court a free woman on Friday after 12 years and six months awaiting trial.

Sebastian Pinera

Chile’s Pinera wins presidency as opponent concedes

SANTIAGO,  (Reuters) – Billionaire conservative Sebastian Pinera won Chile’s presidency yesterday, with his centre-left opponent Alejandro Guillier conceding the election as Chile followed other South American nations in a political turn to the right.

‘We are POLITICAL REFUGEES’: Cubans with placards on Thursday outside the United Nations office on Keate Street, Port of Spain, where they have been living.

Cuban refugees living on the street in T&T

(Trinidad Express) Cuban  refugees who have been living outside the United Nations office on Keate Street, Port of Spain in tents made out of tarpaulin yesterday denied media reports that they were offered assistance for housing by the Living Water Community (LWC) and refused.

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