(Jamaica Gleaner) Although the Jamaican Government is being encouraged by foreign advocates and agitators to forge ahead with changing its laws to decriminalise marijuana for both recreational and medicinal use, Foreign Affairs Minister AJ Nicholson is suggesting that the country still has to proceed with caution in one area.
(Trinidad Guardian) An 81-year-old businessman fought off two bandits during a daring home invasion yesterday, by kicking one of them so hard that they both fled the scene with whatever they had managed to grab before trying to subdue him in their Princes Town home.
(Trinidad Express) Captured on camera. This is what National Security Minister Gary Griffith hopes to achieve with a now-functioning network of CCTV cameras that has been in active use since last October to monitor roads, highways and the activity of Trinidadians across the country.
Britain has given Dominica its ap-proval to adopt the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as the island’s final court of appeal, according to the Caricom Secretariat.
(Trinidad Express) Things seem to be turning against Jack Warner. The Integrity Commission has asked President Anthony Carmona to appoint a tribunal to investigate the Chaguanas West MP and former National Security minister.
(Trinidad Guardian) The United States Department of Justice on Thursday issued a diplomatic note to T&T’s Foreign Affairs Ministry for provisional warrants to be issued for three suspects described as “businessmen.”
(Jamaica Observer) Jamaica is to become the first country in the Caribbean and Latin America to have a Junior Achievement Biztown (JA Biztown), a model business town in which students in Grade Five will be allowed to run their own businesses while learning the basics of financial responsibility.
(Jamaica Observer) Peter Bunting on Thursday said that select police units will start wearing body cameras soon, even as concerns are being expressed over the allegations of extrajudicial killings and professional misconduct by members of the constabulary.
(Jamaica Observer) Peter Bunting yesterday said that select police units will start wearing body cameras soon, even as concerns are being expressed over the allegations of extrajudicial killings and professional misconduct by members of the constabulary.
(Trinidad Express) Things seem to be turning against Jack Warner. The Integrity Commission has asked President Anthony Carmona to appoint a tribunal to investigate the Chaguanas West MP and former National Security minister.
SANTIAGO/LIMA, (Reuters) – A decades-old maritime dispute between Chile and Peru goes to a final ruling next week with both governments hoping it will end one of Latin America’s last big border spats and improve ties between the two trading partners and longtime rivals.
(Jamaica Observer) After months of speculation played out in the media and the public domain, the Port Authority of Jamaica (PAJ) on Tuesday confirmed that Goat Islands will indeed be the site of a Chinese seaport.
(Trinidad Express) A 15-year-old mother of one has become the 40th murder victim for the year.
(Trinidad Express) The United States’ Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has targeted several local businessmen of interest in their probe into the TT$644 million cocaine drug bust in Norfolk, Virginia, USA in December.
(Barbados Nation) A Guyanese has been charged with a number of drug offences.
(Trinidad Express) The United States’ Drug Enforcement Agency (DEA) has targeted several local businessmen of interest in their probe into the TT$644 million cocaine drug bust in Norfolk, Virginia, USA in December.
(Trinidad Express) National Security Minister Gary Griffith stated yesterday that the days of catching the petty criminals while allowing the ‘big fish’ free rein are over.
CARACAS (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro is urging representatives of Venezuela’s television stations yesterday to change what he calls a culture of violence glamorized by the media.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s leftist President Dilma Rousseff will try to convince the world’s business elite in Davos this week that her country is still a good investment despite three years of mediocre growth.
(Barbados Nation) Minister of Finance Chris Sinckler last night warned professionals such as doctors and lawyers and self-employed people, including mechanics, they will soon be under greater Government scrutiny to ensure they pay their fair share of taxes.
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