(Trinidad Guardian) Independent Liberal Party (ILP) leader Jack Warner has been ordered to pay former attorney general Anand Ramlogan close TT$900,000 in compensation after losing defamation lawsuit.
(Trinidad Guardian) All prisons throughout T&T are currently on a “lockdown” as security measures are increased, including the installation of body scanners.
(Trinidad Express) Corruption-accused Jack Warner has written to several officials that Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar received multi-million-dollar payments to thwart the extradition of businessmen and United National Congress financiers Ishwar Galbaransingh and Steve Ferguson.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Five men in northern Mexico were sentenced to an unprecedented 697 years in prison for the gender-driven killing of 11 women, in a state where hundreds of young women have been murdered since 1990.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s largest party is standing by deeply unpopular President Dilma Rousseff for now despite the defection of one of its own leaders, but that could change if an expected recession stirs up social unrest, party leaders say.
(Trinidad Express) Sections of St Vincent Street were blocked off by police yesterday in anticipation of the appearance of 11 men at the Port of Spain Magistrates’ Court to answer charges for the murder of senior counsel Dana Seetahal.
(Trinidad Express) The National Carnival Commission (NCC) intends to award over $1 million in prizes and incentives to mas bands and steelbands for creativity in Carnival 2016.
(Trinidad Express) Prison escapee Hassan Atwell, 41, has been killed.
Reports are that Atwell was not killed by police but by members of the Rasta City gang.
(Trinidad Express) The brother of murdered Senior Counsel Dana Seetahal is questioning the timing of the arrests and charging of 11 men in connection with his sister’s murder.
(Trinidad & Tobago’s Newsday) – A woman dressed in Muslim clothing, who was given a special visit to one of the escapees at the Port of Spain Prison at mid-morning on Friday, has been identified as the person who allegedly smuggled two pistols and a hand grenade into the prison without being detected.
(Trinidad Express) Just days away from the 25th anniversary of the July 27, 1990, attempted coup, the capital city was thrown into panic and fear yesterday following a jailbreak and the deaths of a policeman and a prisoner.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Ministry of Finance and Planning has confirmed that the Government has reached an agreement on a deal with Venezuela to repurchase billions of dollars it owed for oil under the PetroCaribe arrangement.
Kick ‘em Jenny, an active submarine volcano approximately 8km off the north coast of Grenada has triggered an orange alert level in parts of the Caribbean after significant seismic activity.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – An independent Mexican commission said yesterday it found serious flaws in an investigation into the apparent massacre of 43 students last year, dealing a fresh blow to President Enrique Pena Nieto over a scandal that has battered his administration.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – The front-runner in Argentina’s presidential election campaign is unnerving investors with his silence over the country’s notoriously inaccurate inflation reporting, while the second place candidate says data transparency would be a top priority.