Staff Editor

KYIV,  (Reuters) – Russian missiles and drones destroyed a large electricity plant near Kyiv and hit power facilities in several regions of Ukraine today, officials said, ramping up pressure on the embattled energy system as Kyiv runs low on air defences.

ORENBURG, Russia, (Reuters) – The Russian city of Orenburg battled rising water levels today after major rivers across Russia and Kazakhstan burst their banks in the worst flooding seen in the areas in nearly a century.

(Jamaica Gleaner) Principal Director of National Integrity Action (NIA) Danielle Archer is calling for the urgent repeal of the Official Secrets Act, arguing that the more current Protected Disclosures Act, or whistleblower legislation, cannot succeed alongside the archaic, colonial law.

HANOI,  (Reuters) – A court in Vietnam handed the death sentence today to real estate tycoon Truong My Lan for her role in a 304-trillion-dong ($12.5-billion) financial fraud, the country’s biggest on record, state media said.

(Trinidad Express) Making the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) Trinidad and Tobago’s final appellate court would be one of the highest honours that could be given to the court’s first president, Michael de la Bastide, says Law Association (LATT) presi­dent Lynette Seebaran-Suite, SC.

ORENBURG, Russia,  (Reuters) – Floods engulfed cities and towns across Russia and Kazakhstan today after Europe’s third-longest river burst its banks, forcing about 110,000 people to evacuate and swamping parts of the Russian city of Orenburg.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – Former Trump Organization Chief Financial Officer Allen Weisselberg was sentenced on Wednesday to five months in jail after pleading guilty last month to perjury charges for lying to investigators and a judge about Donald Trump’s finances.

VATICAN CITY,  (Reuters) – A representative of Brazil’s Yanomami people said he met Pope Francis today to ask him to support Brazilian President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva’s efforts to save his indigenous people.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – India’s top court admonished the head of a state drugs regulator for failing to take action against a popular yoga guru’s firm which claimed its traditional ayurvedic medicines can cure chronic diseases such as diabetes and asthma.

On Tuesday 9th April 2024, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) delivered judgment in Che Jain Ping and Xiao Guang Zhao v Guyana Power and Light Inc.

Yesterday, at his Brickdam Headquarters, the Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony, accompanied by his Advisor, Dr Leslie Ramsammy, and the Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Health, Malcolm Watkins, met with a delegation from the European Union Technical Assistance and Information Exchange (EU-TAIEX).

STRASBOURG, France, (Reuters) – The European Court of Human Rights (ECtHR) ruled today in favour of a group of elderly Swiss women who had argued that their government’s inadequate efforts to combat climate change put them at risk of dying during heatwaves.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – An Indian court rejected on Tuesday an appeal against last month’s arrest of key opposition leader and Delhi Chief Minister Arvind Kejriwal in a graft case, an order that comes as a disappointment to the opposition ten days before general elections.

NIAGARA FALLS, New York, (Reuters) – Throngs of skywatchers across North America gazed upward at a blackened sun in the midday dusk yesterday, celebrating with cheers, music and matrimony the first total solar eclipse to darken the continent in seven years.

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) says that the adoption of “the Organic Law for the Defence of Guyana Essequiba” on 3 April 2024, by the Government of the Bolivarian Republic of Venezuela, has occasioned an unacceptable escalation of tensions between that country and the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, and has threatened to undermine peace and security in Latin America and the Caribbean.

Clinton Chase, a 70-year-old unemployed resident of Lot 148 Middle Road, La Penitence, Georgetown, was discovered dead on April 7th, 2024, at 10.30 pm on the northern parapet infront of his home.

GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemalan President Bernardo Arevalo on Sunday dismissed his minister of environment and natural resources, fewer than 100 days into his term, to “avoid any doubt” over the integrity of his government, a statement said.

GEORGETOWN,  (Reuters) – Guyana’s efforts to use its natural gas resources to fuel a power plant that would slash the South American nation’s energy costs have snagged on construction delays and threaten to curtail the rising oil hotspot’s revenue this year by about $1 billion.

Sarah Bacchus Arjoon, a 56-year-old saleswoman from Lot 755 Recht-door-Zee, was murdered yesterday, allegedly by her husband Khemraj Arjoon, 69, who later died at the West Demerara Regional Hospital, where he had been admitted under guard after ingesting a poisonous substance.

A full Investigation will be launched into the tug and barge (OME Tone 1) which came into contact yesterday with spans 12, 13 and connected pontoons of the Demerara Habour Bridge.