Daily Archives: Mar 1, 2017

Grenada police have charged three Romanian nationals with money laundering after an undisclosed amount of United States and other currencies were seized during a raid at their apartment on Tuesday

Representatives of various non-governmental organisations (NGOs) across the Caribbean will meet here on Friday to participate in the high level regional consultations on the development of the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights (IACHR) 2017 – 2020 Strategic Plan.

Guyana’s President David Granger will deliver the keynote address at the Second Annual International Education Awards Ceremony at the predominantly black Medgar Evers College, City University of New York(CUNY), in Brooklyn next month.

Former prime minister Sir James Mitchell is urging the main opposition New Democratic Party (NDP) to end its legal challenge of the 2015 general elections.

The Jamaica government says it has no plans to abandon the bauxite levy and will instead engage in a profit share regime with mining companies as it seeks to rebuild the bauxite sector.

President Donald Trump on Tuesday reaffirmed support for the United States' longstanding security alliances around the world but insisted that friends and partners from Europe to the Middle East to the Pacific must “pay their fair share of the cost.”

Russian-backed Syrian government forces will enter the Islamic State-held city of Palmyra "very soon", a Syrian military source said on Wednesday, as government forces seek to win back the city from the group for the second time in a year.

Afghan Taliban militants said they attacked police, military and intelligence targets in Kabul on Wednesday and security officials confirmed attacks in at least two areas of the city.

According to the charges, the women and four unnamed people, who are still at large, were in the airport departure lounge with the intention of murdering the North Korean citizen. One North Korean man, identified by police as Ri Jong Chol, is still in police custody and has not been charged. Police have identified seven other North Koreans wanted in connection with the case, including an embassy official in Kuala Lumpur. Amid a bitter diplomatic row, members of Malaysia's cabinet met with a high-level North Korean delegation that arrived on Tuesday to press for the release of the citizen in custody, and for the body to be handed over. Health Minister Subramaniam Sathasivam told reporters he was not at that meeting, but a decision would eventually be made on what to do with the body as no next of kin had come forward for formal identification. North Korea maintains the victim is a North Korean citizen, but denies he is the half brother of its leader, Kim Jong Un. South Korea's foreign minister told a U.N. sponsored disarmament conference in Geneva on Tuesday that its unpredictable, nuclear-armed neighbor had thousands of tonnes of chemical weapons, including VX. Yun Byung-se called for "collective measures" against North Korea, including possible suspension of its U.N. membership. North Korea's envoy to the conference, Ju Yong Choi, rejected the suggestion as "despicable" and said the country has never produced or stockpiled chemical weapons. The country's official KCNA news agency later said the claim that VX was used to kill its citizen was "absurd" and lacked scientific basis, calling it an assertion made by the United States and South Korea to tarnish the North's image. "WASHED HANDS" Security camera footage, which has been broadcast in the media, showed two women assaulting Kim Jong Nam at the airport around 20 minutes before he died. Both women have told diplomats from their countries that they had believed they were carrying out a prank for a reality television show. Indonesian diplomats said Aishah told them she was paid around $90 by whoever tricked her into taking part. Malaysian police have said the suspects had washed their hands after the assault, and were aware that the liquid smeared on their victim's face was toxic. Aishah's lawyer, Gooi Soon Seng, was granted a gag order to restrain police and potential witnesses from making public statements that may incriminate his client. Police detained Huong 48 hours after the murder in the same airport terminal where Kim Jong Nam was killed. They identified her as the dark-haired woman wearing a white shirt emblazoned with the acronym "LOL", whose image was caught by a security camera while waiting for a taxi after the attack. Appearing in court on Wednesday, Huong wore a yellow shirt and blue jeans, and her wavy hair was dyed blonde. Aishah was caught a day after Huong. Police said she suffered a bout of vomiting while in custody that they said was due to side-effects from exposure to VX. Indonesian diplomats who visited her subsequently said she was in good health. In court, Aishah indicated that she understood the charges against her. Wearing jeans and a t-shirt, her solemn face framed by long, dark hair, Aishah nodded to Indonesian embassy officials as she left the courtroom. "We hope that she gets a fair trial, afforded all her legal rights and not tried by the public," Indonesia's foreign ministry spokesman, Armanatha Nasir, told Reuters in Jakarta.

French presidential candidate Francois Fillon abruptly canceled a high-profile campaign appearance on Wednesday and a newspaper reported he had been summoned by magistrates investigating a 'fake work' scandal involving his wife.