(Jamaica Gleaner) Three of the island’s leading private sector groups have called for a forensic audit of the affairs of oil refinery Petrojam and the Universal Access Fund, both agencies of the Technology and Energy Ministry.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police detained 35 foreign nationals suspected of prostitution during a raid at a hotel and bar in central Trinidad, early yesterday.
MANAGUA, (Reuters) – Lesther Aleman, a lanky and bespectacled 20-year-old student, had never taken part in a protest until April when he became the public face of a revolt that has shaken the rule of Nicaraguan President Daniel Ortega.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T could expect $23 billion in investments in the downstream energy sector over the next four years, according to “a secret” Ministry of Energy document.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T could expect $23 billion in investments in the downstream energy sector over the next four years, according to “a secret” Ministry of Energy document.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican airline Volaris said on Friday it was offering free flights to reunite families separated by the “zero tolerance” immigration policy of U.S.
(Jamaica Gleaner): Over 2,000 pounds of ganja valued at approximately $10 million was seized in Portmore, St Catherine, Jamaica yesterday by detectives from the Counter-Terrorism and Organised Crime division.
(Trinidad Express) A Westmoorings man was expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate yesterday, charged with 32 counts of money laundering and one count of obtaining approximately TT$8.6 million by false representation, between the period October 2015 and April 2018.
(Trinidad Express) As debate rages over the President Donald Trump administration’s zero-tolerance policy toward immigrants and their children coming to the U.S.-Mexico
VIENNA, (Reuters) – U.S. sanctions on Venezuela are an attack against the stability of the global oil market, Venezuelan Oil Minister Manuel Quevedo said yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) American Airlines has announced the addition of non-stop, daily service from Charlotte Douglas International Airport (CLT) in North Carolina to Grantley Adams Inter-national Airport (BGI) beginning December 19.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Clarendon man who raped a university student after convincing her that he could exorcise a ‘duppy’ he claimed was following her was yesterday sent to prison for 15 years.
CHAGUARAMAS, Trinidad and Tobago, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Unemployed and without food to feed his family, Venezuelan construction worker Robert Monterosi says there is only one way he can survive – dodging customs officials to sell smuggled goods in neighbouring Trinidad and Tobago and stock up there.
NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Puerto Rico should use some of the billions of dollars in aid pledged after a deadly hurricane last year to fix a flawed land ownership system that is hampering reconstruction, community leaders said in a report published yesterday.