(Trinidad Guardian) Former CL Financial (CLF) executive chairman Lawrence Duprey has been ordered to pay over US$122 million in damages to the company’s former subsidiary in the Bahamas over a failed land development in Florida.
NEW YORK/SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission yesterday accused Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk of fraud and sought to remove him from his role in charge of the electric car company, saying he made a series of “false and misleading” tweets about potentially taking Tesla private last month.
The Office of the Prime Minister (OPM) yesterday handed over $5M to the University of Guyana (UG) as funding for constitutional reform education.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The University of the West Indies (The UWI) has broken into the Times Higher Education (THE) World University Rankings for the first time.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that U.N.
Following a complaint in the Kaieteur News on Monday, the Ministry of Education says a shortage of textbooks at the Kopinang Primary School in Region Eight was discerned and is now being rectified.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Petróleo Brasileiro SA will pay an $853.2 million fine to settle charges that former executives and directors of the state-run Brazilian oil company broke U.S.
A Cuban national was yesterday fined and ordered deported for illegally entering Guyana.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The People’s National Party (PNP) yesterday hailed the breakthrough development of the first legal shipment of cannabis derived product (cannabis oil) to Canada from Jamaica.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India’s top court on Thursday decriminalised adultery in a landmark judgment aimed at upholding the right to equality and freedom, scrapping a law first brought in under British colonial rule in 1860.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) Prime Minister Andrew Holness yesterday reiterated the call by Jamaica and the rest of CARICOM for the United States to lift the embargoes imposed against Cuba almost six decades ago, arguing that societies function best within an inclusive global environment, where no one feels left behind.
(JAMAICA GLEANER) The Jamaica Defence Force (JDF) has vowed to hunt down and flush out the gangsters who ambushed a police-military patrol and shot and injured two soldiers in the Richmond Hill section of Cambridge in St James yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Fighting to salvage his U.S. Supreme Court nomination, Brett Kavanaugh angrily and tearfully denied today a university professor’s accusation that he sexually assaulted her 36 years ago and complained about a “political hit” after she told a dramatic Senate hearing she was “100 percent certain” he did it.
FORMER UWI principal Professor Clement Sankat and his wife have hired a high-profile attorney to handle the case of their son, Nishal Sankat, accused in the US of burglary, trespassing and grand theft.
On Monday, 17 September 2018, the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MoPI) says it was observed by two workers from the Ministry, while visiting the site of Schoonord Road leading to La Parfaite Harmonie on West Bank Demerara, that seven out of ten bump traffic signs and metal posts that were installed by Design Perspectives a few weeks ago were missing with only the foundation remaining.
(Trinidad Guardian) National award winner and secretary of the Association of Psychiatrists of T&T Dr Varma Deyalsingh is urging citizens to look out for signs of depression in their loved ones before it reaches the point of suicide.
(Trinidad Guardian) Frustrated over the absence of printing paper in the Port-of-Spain and San Fernando Supreme Courts for the past two weeks, a judge yesterday said the Judiciary appears to be on the brink of collapse.
The final processing of the nomination lists for candidates and the backers of lists for candidates at the upcoming Local Government Elections is being compromised as people who wish to have their names withdrawn from the lists cannot do so as agreed to by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) says Commissioner, Robeson Benn.
Sherwin Apple, one of the two suspects in a rape video that went viral and who was discovered dead at the Kitty seawall on Tuesday, was murdered, an autopsy showed yesterday.
While the police in Berbice are awaiting a post-mortem examination to determine the cause of death of Chandrawattie Williams, whose body was found on Tuesday partially decomposed, neighbours and close friends yesterday disclosed that she suffered 20 years of physical and verbal abuse at the hands of her husband.
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