Cocaine in T&T orange juice cartons…again
(Trinidad Express) Liquid cocaine has again been found in orange juice containers shipped from Trinidad and Tobago, and headed to a destination in North America.
(Trinidad Express) Liquid cocaine has again been found in orange juice containers shipped from Trinidad and Tobago, and headed to a destination in North America.
(Trinidad Express) The burnt bodies of a man and woman were discovered inside a vehicle parked roadside near Woodford Lodge, Chaguanas, on Monday night.
(Trinidad Guardian) Four suspects were last night assisting police in their investigation into the murder of one of their colleagues and a University of the West Indies student.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian prosecutors yesterday charged Jose Carlos Bumlai, a friend of former President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, with taking out a fraudulent loan from Schahin bank that they allege benefited the ruling Workers’ Party.
HAVANA (Reuters) – The Colombian government and leftist FARC rebels have reached a deal on reparations for war victims and could be near a pact on the terms of confinement for ex-combatants who would be tried in special tribunals once a definitive peace agreement is reached.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Police in Rio de Janeiro have broken up a ring that arranged fake Brazilian citizenship for dozens of Syrian nationals, TV Globo’s Jornal Nacional newscast reported, raising security concerns following militant attacks in the United States and Europe and before the Rio Olympic Games in August.
(Trinidad Guardian) Support from the Opposi-tion and an online petition may not be enough to keep Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran in office.
(Trinidad Express) In the face of calls to reinstate employees, steel producer ArcelorMittal is defending its decision to cut its staff by 480 workers.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis arrived in Cuba yesterday with plans to increase trade overshadowed by what to do with nearly 5,000 Cuban migrants stranded in his country.
(Trinidad Guardian) Support from the Opposition and an online petition may not be enough to keep Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran in office.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Smarting from last weekend’s election defeat, President Nicolas Maduro warned yesterday of a “large-scale crisis” in Venezuela as a showdown looms between the socialist government and opposition-led legislature.
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Scores of women rebel fighters were forced to undergo abortions under a policy of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in their five-decade war against the government, Colombia’s top prosecutor said on Friday.
(Trinidad Guardian) – A 21-year-old Arima woman is now in police custody after stabbing her common-law husband to death during a domestic dispute, on Friday.
(Barbados Nation) As Barbados remains preoccupied with the bidding war for Banks Holdings Limited, two of the Caribbean’s leading companies have joined forces.
(Trinidad Guardian) President and chief executive of Massy Group, Gervais Warner, has expressed deep concern about the recent disclosure by Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran of the country’s 18 biggest foreign exchange buyers, saying it may have set a dangerous precedent.
(Trinidad Express) The rules have changed for the appointment of a Commissioner of Police (CoP), who now must be a Trinidad and Tobago national, Communications Minister Maxie Cuffie announced on Thursday.
(Trinidad Guardian) President and chief executive of Massy Group, Gervais Warner, has expressed deep concern about the recent disclosure by Central Bank Governor Jwala Rambarran of the country’s 18 biggest foreign exchange buyers, saying it may have set a dangerous precedent.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s outgoing National Assembly yesterday tapped a judge loathed by the opposition for jailing politician Leopoldo Lopez as an ombudsman amid an increasingly hostile confrontation following legislative elections.
Ralph Gonsalves was yesterday sworn in for a fourth terms as Prime Minister of St Vincent and the Grenadines despite a recount of votes and scattered protests.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian lawmakers almost came to blows yesterday in a heated committee hearing that failed for a sixth time to decide whether to investigate lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha for lying about his bank accounts in Switzerland.
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