MIAMI (Reuters) – A former Venezuelan judge was sentenced to six years and eight months in prison in US court in Miami yesterday after being accused of taking bribes from a South American drug cartel boss.
(Reuters) – Netflix Inc launched its movie and TV streaming service in Cuba yesterday, joining the list of US companies looking to take advantage of thawing diplomatic relations between the United States and the communist-ruled island country.
(Barbados Nation) The Barbados Labour Party (BLP) has called on Acting Commissioner of Police Tyrone Griffith and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Charles Leacock to investigate a number of bank accounts into which funds from troubled insurer CLICO were reportedly channelled.
(Trinidad Express) Former National Security minister Gary Griffith has named Communications Minister Vasant Bharath as the minister who tried to influence him not to speak out in the alleged witness tampering matter involving fired attorney general Anand Ramlogan and Police Complaints Authority (PCA) director David West.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s popularity has plunged by nearly half since her recent re-election as a severe government corruption scandal, an economic slowdown and surging prices for electricity, gasoline and bus fares left voters feeling misled.
Barbados Nation) A temporary restriction has been placed on the importation of all live birds, hatching eggs, and on fresh, frozen and chilled poultry meat and products, including table eggs, originating from the North American states of Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Nevada and California.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – The Supreme Court of Canada overturned a ban on physician-assisted suicide yesterday, unanimously reversing a decision it made in 1993 and putting Canada in the company of a handful of Western countries to make it legal.
(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Police Service is advising that, effective January 30, the fines related to drunk driving, speeding and driving without a permit, have been increased.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States is pressing Cuba to allow the opening of its embassy in Havana by April, U.S.
(Trinidad Express) Forty-eight hours after Garvin Nicholas was appointed this country’s new Attorney General, a matter has been referred to the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) for investigation, involving him.
(Jamaica Observer) Cabinet has given approval for two energy-generation projects, totalling 330 megawatts, which will increase the country’s electricity generation capacity and reduce the cost to consumers.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – The chief executive and other senior management at Brazil’s Petrobras resigned on Wednesday amid a festering corruption scandal, setting off a scramble to find replacements capable of restoring investor confidence in the state-run oil company.
(Trinidad Express) Attorney General Garvin Nicholas has dismissed criticisms he was not experienced for the job, saying his work will speak for itself.
(Trinidas Express) The Congress of the People (COP) will not break away from the People’s Partnership Government and the concerns of COP chairman Nicole Dyer-Griffith are personal and emotional ones, says party leader Prakash Ramadhar.
(Trinidad Express) President of the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) Seenath Jairam SC has defended the decision of his executive to issue a release last Saturday calling on Attorney General Anand Ramlogan to step down following concerns raised by attorney Donna Prowell.
(Trinidad Express) United National Congress (UNC) campaign and advertising manager Ernie Ross has denied trying to influence former minister of national security Gary Griffith to change his story in the ongoing David West versus Anand Ramlogan saga.
(Trinidad Express) In an address of 2,164 words last night, made necessary by the allegations against the Attorney General, the Prime Minister dedicated virtually one line to her outgoing Attorney General Anand Ramlogan.
(Trinidad Express) – Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar has asked that the President revoke the appointments of Attorney General Anand Ramlogan, National Security Minister Gary Griffith, and called for the resignation of the Director of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) David West, for their roles in the witness-tampering investigation ordered by Acting Police Commissioner Stephen Williams.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Relations between the United States and Venezuela deteriorated yesterday after Washington imposed visa restrictions on officials involved in alleged human rights abuses and those believed responsible for public corruption in the oil-exporting country.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States today imposed visa restrictions on current and former Venezuelan officials involved in alleged human rights abuses and on people believed responsible for public corruption in the oil-exporting country.
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