Daily Archives: May 22, 2018

PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, May 22, CMC – Lawyers for Chief Justice Ivor Archie will on Monday next week leave to appeal to the London-based Privy Council after a Court of Appeal dismissed a lower court ruling that the Law Association of Trinidad and Tobago (LATT) did not have the power to investigate allegations of misconduct against their client.

CARACAS (Reuters) - President Nicolas Maduro on Tuesday ordered the expulsion of the top U.S. diplomat in Venezuela in retaliation for a new round of sanctions over Venezuela’s widely-condemned election.

YANGON (Reuters) - A Myanmar judge on Tuesday allowed the submission of evidence police say they obtained from the mobile phones of two Reuters reporters arrested in December for alleged possession of secret documents, in what has become a landmark press freedom case.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Tuesday there was a “substantial chance” his summit with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un will not take place as planned on June 12 amid concerns that Kim is resistant to giving up his nuclear weapons.

Retired army captain George Wehner, has been found guilty of battery on a police officer, Constable Marvin Cuffy, whom he physically tried to remove from a meeting of the good governance advocacy group, The Movement, after the officer refused to comply with an order to turn off his cellular phone or leave.

The police are questioning a junior Customs officer after a barrel of drugs disappeared from Customs cargo where it was being monitored for several days.

A garbage collector was this morning rushed to hospital after his colleague allegedly accidentally knocked him down with the disposal truck.

Barbadian jockey Rocco Bowen won his 26th added-money race at Emerald Downs when he produced a strong late charge aboard 6-5 choice Ima Happy Cat to win the U.S. $50 000 Selene Stakes here Sunday.

Former champions, Flyers Basketball, and powerhouse team, LJ Northside Stingerz, will meet in the semi-finals of the Antigua and Barbuda Basketball Association (ABBA) Division 1 playoffs.

Cricket West Indies chief executive, Johnny Grave, says no decision has been taken to reduce matches for Sri Lanka’s three-Test tour of the Caribbean.