Regional News

2,000 lb of ganga valued at $10M seized

(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.

Charged: Chris Ramsawack

T&T businessman charged with $8.6m fraud, money laundering

(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. 

Niria Macano (left) and a Venezuelan man (centre) negotiate with a Trinidadian man (right) about payments for docking boats in Chaguaramas, Trinidad and Tobago, May 24, 2018. Thomson Reuters Foundation/Gregory Scruggs

Venezuelans survive by smuggling over the waves to Trinidad

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.

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