WASHINGTON/NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A Chinese billionaire has been indicted by a grand jury on charges he schemed with the aluminum company he founded to evade $1.8 billion of tariffs by smuggling huge amounts of the metal into the United States, federal prosecutors said yesterday.
A woman who was charged with damage to property was yesterday sentenced to nine months in jail after she admitted to the offence and created an uproar in court.
SHANGHAI/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. and Chinese negotiators ended a brief round of trade talks yesterday with little sign of progress and agreed to meet again in September, prolonging an uneasy truce in a year-long trade war between the world’s two largest economies.
A historic Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) was signed on Wednesday by the Vice-Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI), Professor Sir Hilary Beckles and a senior official of the University of Glasgow (UoG) for “reparatory justice” related to the slave trade.
Investigations are still ongoing into the accident which left two persons dead and two others hospitalised.
MANGALURU/BENGALURU, (Reuters) – Authorities in Southern India recovered the body of coffee baron V.G.
Director-General of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), Lieutenant Colonel Kester Craig, yesterday afternoon, received a quantity of equipment valued $39,436,217, from the United States Department of Defense Humanitarian Assistance Program (HAP).
(Trinidad Guardian) High Court Judge Vasheist Kokaram has granted a limited suspension of his judgment on the unconstitutionality of a law, which gives prospective lawyers from T&T a shortcut into the local legal profession not afforded to Caricom citizens.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday imposed sanctions on Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif, targeting the country’s top spokesman and potentially hurting chances of diplomatic talks amid rising tensions between the two countries.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – Authorities in the Chinese capital have ordered halal restaurants and food stalls to remove Arabic script and symbols associated with Islam from their signs, part of an expanding national effort to “Sinicize” its Muslim population.
The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) has launched its 2020 Calendar Art Competition under the theme `Guyana 2020 and Beyond.
(Trinidad Express) The desire to have her father walk her down the aisle at her wedding will not be a reality for a woman who was indecently assaulted by him when she was eight and ten years old.
(Barbados Nation) The Court of Appeal today released former condemned murderer Omar DaCosta Holder from prison saying his case should not have gone to the jury in light of his unsigned written statement taken while he was in police custody.
(Barbados Nation) Visitors to Barbados for the last lap of Crop Over could find themselves waiting on the plane for longer than usual before they can disembark.
The police today issued a wanted bulletin for Joseph Sargeant, 38, c/d “Joey” in connection with the murder of Terry Ault on 2019-07-21 in South Sophia, Greater Georgetown.
In a likely sign of their continuing interest in the current political standoff over general elections and the ruling of the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), envoys from the United States, Britain, Canada and the European Union today met President David Granger and his team at the Ministry of the Presidency.
(Trinidad Express) The mother of a man shot and killed by the police after he robbed and terrorised patrons of a bar in Phillipine last Saturday morning, says her son was innocent.
MANGALURU/BENGALURU, (Reuters) – Authorities in Southern India recovered the body of coffee baron V.G.
SOFIA, (Reuters) – The head of Bulgaria’s anti-corruption commission has resigned following a scandal over purchases of luxury properties at favourable prices that has already forced some senior ruling party’s politicians to quit.
(Trinidad Express) On the advice of the Director of Public Prosecutions, Roger Gaspard, the charges of malicious damage and threatening a potential witness in a criminal investigation have been re-laid against the CEO of A&V Oil and Gas Ltd, Hanif Nazim Baksh.
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