(Jamaica Observer) The Integrity Commission and the Financial Investigations Division (FID) yesterday signed a memorandum of understanding (MOU) aimed at strengthening both organisations’ response to public corruption, money laundering, organised crime, fraud and financial crime.
(Barbados Nation) With four convictions for assault with intent to rape, a previous 15-year jail term for rape and two new acts committed 16 days apart, there was no doubt, said Justice Randall Worrell, that Kinchar Kenny Lavonne Mascoll was a serious danger to society.
(Trinidad Express) A 21 year old mother of three was killed on Thursday afternoon during an altercation near her Quash Trace, Sangre Grande home.
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti, (Reuters) – The last 12 Canadian and American missionaries from a group kidnapped in October in Haiti have been released, police said yesterday, ending an ordeal that brought global attention to the Caribbean nation’s growing problem of gang abductions.
(Trinidad Guardian) A woman who died at a house in Freeport on Monday has been identified as Nita Gajadhar, 31, of McBean Village in Couva.
(Trinidad Express) The owner of Darryl’s Famous Foods (formerly Japs Fried Chicken) Darryl Mahabir has died of Covid-19, as did his mother ten days ago.
(Trinidad Guardian) Sixty-one-year-old Cpl Ian Regis passed away yesterday at the St James Medical Hospital after contracting COVD-19.
LAHORE, (Reuters) – The West Indies tour of Pakistan has been cut short after the number of COVID-19 cases in the touring party increased to nine since their arrival in Karachi last week, the two cricket boards said today.
(Trinidad Express) The vehicle that was driven by the perpetrators of the killing of prison officer Nigel Jones at Siparia had been stolen at gunpoint in Aranguez.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says ExxonMobil’s announcement that it was relocating its supply chain services from T&T to Guyana was to be expected as the source of their exploration and production of oil and possibly gas is in Guyana.
(Trinidad Express) With 32 Covid-19 deaths reported by the Ministry of Health yesterday, December 15 is now the deadliest day of the pandemic in Trinidad and Tobago.
(Trinidad Guardian) Almost 48 hours after departing the Miami International Airport on a Caribbean Airlines jet bound for T&T, the passengers of BW483 have arrived in the country.
CAP-HAITIEN, Haiti, (Reuters) – Haitian authorities yesterday searched for victims from a fuel truck explosion in the city of Cap-Haitien that killed at least 60 people, amid reports that nearby residents had attempted to take fuel from the vehicle before it exploded.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A former Brazilian defense minister who was appointed by President Jair Bolsonaro will be the secretary-general of the nation’s top electoral court during the country’s presidential election in October, two sources said.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A son of the former Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli pleaded guilty yesterday to a U.S.
(Trinidad Express) Government has launched its first deep water bid round since 2014 to advance exploration for energy resources.
(Trinidad Express) A former United States soldier was among two Morvant men who were robbed and shot dead when they went to the Champ Fleurs area on Monday night to purchase marijuana.
(Reuters) – The United States wants to see more action against corruption in Guatemala, a senior U.S.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – At least 50 people were killed when a fuel truck exploded in a street in Haiti’s second-largest city Cap-Haitien during the night, the city mayor said today.
(Trinidad Express) The highly infectious Omicron variant is now present in Trinidad and Tobago after being detected in a Trinidadian woman who travelled from New York to Panama and then to Trinidad knowing fully well she was Covid-19 positive.
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