WASHINGTON, United States of America April 10, 2018 (CMC) – The United States says despite the police bringing cash seizure and forfeiture cases to the courts, there have not been any money laundering convictions, to date, in Trinidad and Tobago. ...
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Former Trinidad And Tobago Sports And Youth Minister Fired Over Unwanted Sexual Advances Allegations
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 10, 2018 (CMC) – Less than 24 hours after he was demoted as a Cabinet minister, the newly-appointed Minister in the Ministry of Housing and Urban Development, Darryl Smith, has been fired. A ...
Read More »Jamaican National Appointed To Bermuda Court Of Appeal
HAMILTON, Bermuda, April 10, 2018 (CMC) – Jamaica-born Anthony Smellie, the longstanding Chief Justice of the Cayman Islands, has been appointed to Bermuda’s Court of Appeal. He will join the court in June, while Elizabeth Gloster, Vice-president of the Court ...
Read More »Man Who Threatened To Kill Guyana’s President Remanded Into Custody
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 10, 2018 (CMC) – A 64-year-old man will re-appear in court on April 16, charged with threatening to kill President, David Granger, last month. Motielall Balkarran, an East Coast Demerara resident, appeared in court yesterday, after the ...
Read More »Caribbean Mayors Urged To Reduce Dependency On Central Governments
KINGSTON, Jamaica, April 10, 2018 (CMC) – Jamaica’s Minister of Local Government and Community Development, Desmond McKenzie, has called on local authorities to become more self-sufficient, in order to reduce their dependency on central government. Addressing the inaugural Caribbean Conference ...
Read More »Trinidad And Tobago Offers “Sincere Apologies” To Dominica
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 10, 2018 (CMC) – Trinidad and Tobago has offered “sincere apologies” to Dominica, following the “mishap” that occurred when Port of Spain voted against a waiver on Dominica’s assessed quota contribution to the ...
Read More »Reggae Singing-Sensation, Etana, Makes Billboard History With New Album
KINGSTON, Jamaica April 10, 2018 — On the heels of a memorable and successful tour on twice-Grammy-nominated artist, JBoog’s “L.O.E” (Love Over Everything) 2018 Tour, international reggae star, Etana, released her highly-anticipated “Reggae Forever” album, to rave reviews from the ...
Read More »Antigua Police Seize Drugs At Customs Cargo Shed
ST. JOHN’S, Antigua and Barbuda, April 10, 2018 (CMC) – Antigua and Barbuda police say they have seized, nearly one million dollars worth of marijuana, that had arrived, here, on a flight from Jamaica, yesterday. In a statement, the police ...
Read More »Mother Who Poisoned Her Two Children Jailed For Life
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, April 10, 2018 (CMC) – Yesterday, a High Court judge sentenced a 25-year-old mother to 98 years in jail, after she was found guilty of killing her two children, by giving them rat poison in 2014. Awena Rutherford, ...
Read More »Man Accused Of Murdering University Student In Trinidad And Tobago
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad and Tobago, April 10, 2018 (CMC) – A 26-year-old man will re-appear in court, on May 7, charged with murdering a University of the West Indies (UWI) student, whose body was found in an abandoned structure, ...
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