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QUITO, (Reuters) – The president of Ecuador’s National Justice Court yesterday said he had signed an extradition request for the country’s ex-President Rafael Correa, who lives in Belgium, seeking his return to Ecuador to serve an eight-year jail term for bribery.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – A U.S. judge yesterday ordered the detention of former Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez, in Hernandez’s first court appearance after being extradited to the United States on drug and weapons charges.

Bids were opened on Tuesday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for a series of projects, including works for monuments in Berbice, under the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport.

BOGOTA,  (Reuters) – Some 5,733 people were killed or disappeared in Colombia as part of a campaign against the left-wing Patriotic Union (UP) party between 1984 and 2016, acts linked to paramilitaries with military backing, the country’s transitional justice tribunal said yesterday.

(Trinidad Guardian) Kurt Cupid also known as Kurt David Smith, 51, a man described by police as a person of interest in several high profile criminal investigations including million-dollar robberies was killed in Longdenville on Thursday night.

The body of a man that was discovered by residents of Richmond Village in Region Two was positively identified on Wednesday by relatives.

BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Opposition parties yesterday filed constitutional complaints at Brazil’s Supreme Court against a pardon granted by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro to an ally who the court sentenced to nearly nine years in prison for anti-democratic threats.

QUITO,  (Reuters) – Ecuador’s national police have captured 18 suspected members of a criminal group who could have ties to drugs and arms trafficking, as well as murders and terrorism, with possible ties to an illegal armed group in Colombia, the organization said yesterday.

TUNIS, (Reuters) – Tunisia’s president seized control of the country’s election commission yesterday, saying he would replace most of its members in a move that will entrench his one-man rule and cast doubt on electoral integrity.

A man was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of attempted murder.

ISLAMABAD,  (Reuters) – Pakistan’s National Security Council, a body of top civil and military leaders, yesterday rejected ousted Prime Minister Imran Khan’s accusations that United States had conspired to topple his government through a parliamentary vote of confidence.

The National Literacy Department within the Ministry of Education will be hosting “A Reading Affair” tomorrow Saturday, April 23, 2022, at the New Central High School (5-6 Princes Street, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown) from 10:00h to 16:00h.

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KYIV/MARIUPOL,  (Reuters) – A Russian general said today that Moscow wants to seize all of southern and eastern Ukraine, far wider war aims than it had acknowledged as it presses on with a new offensive after its campaign to capture the capital Kyiv collapsed last month.

NEW DELHI,  (Reuters) – Britain and India agreed today to step up defence and business cooperation during a visit to New Delhi by Boris Johnson, who said a bilateral free-trade deal could be wrapped up by October.

BERLIN,  (Reuters) – NATO must avoid a direct military confrontation with Russia that could lead to a third world war, German Chancellor Olaf Scholz said in an interview with Der Spiegel when asked about Germany’s failure to deliver heavy weapons to Ukraine.

(Trinidad Guardian) Two relatives, a 31-year-old woman and her common-law husband, have been charged with manslaughter following the death of six-year-old Zackariah Charles.

(Trinidad Guardian) When Joshua Mahabir died from gunshots on Wednesday night, the spanner he used to fix his car was still in his hand and the phone he was speaking to his wife on lay at his side.

(Trinidad Express) Mask-wearing remains mandatory on board Caribbean Airlines flights, according to the airline’s corporate communications manager, Dionne Ligoure.

Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton says that while he is yet to receive an official invitation from President Irfaan Ali for talks, any such forum should not be restricted to constitutional matters but also include issues affecting both government and the opposition.