Trinidadian businessman Dominic Hadeed and his wife, Genevieve Hadeed, will remain in prison after the Court of Appeal yesterday ruled that the interim stay granted on Thursday will remain in force while the State pursues an appeal to the UK Privy Council.
Former Energy Chamber chief executive officer Dr Dax Driver has raised questions as to whether Trinidad and Tobago has the energy generation capacity to supply the proposed data centres.
Former FIFA vice-president and ex-government minister Jack Warner has won a decisive legal victory after the High Court permanently stayed the extradition proceedings brought against him by the United States, the Trinidad Guardian reported.
Indigenous organisations from across the Caribbean have urged the Trinidad and Tobago government to abandon a proposal to rename the Piarco International Airport after former Prime Minister Basdeo Panday, arguing that the move would erase one of the country’s most significant Indigenous place names and undermine internationally recognised Indigenous rights.
The possible deaths of two St Lucians in controversial strikes by the US navy in the southern Caribbean this year was a major issue at yesterday’s CARICOM Heads press conference and St Lucia PM Philip J Pierre was unable to provide answers on the case.
Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley yesterday dismissed suggestions in the UK that former colonial powers are owed compensation rather than accountability for slavery.
French Guiana today became the eighth Associate Member of CARICOM when it signed the Agreement defining the conditions for granting French Guiana Associate Membership in CARICOM.
Antigua and Barbuda yesterday said that its Citizenship by Investment (CBI) programme will continue despite a formal warning by the European Union dated June 25th.
As the principal owners of Blue Waters remain in prison following their detention under Preventive Detention Orders (PDOs), state-owned Caribbean Airlines (CAL) has stopped serving the company’s bottled water on its flights, the Trinidad Guardian reported yesterday.
NCB Merchant Bank (Trinidad and Tobago) Limited says a US$2 million cash shipment seized at Piarco International Airport last month was a legitimate transaction between regulated financial institutions, according to a report in the Trinidad Guardian.
The State has retained two eminent King’s Counsel to strengthen its legal team in the matter involving businessman Dominic Hadeed and his wife, Genevieve Hadeed, according to the Trinidad Express.
Attorneys representing Dominic and Genevieve Hadeed are pursuing all steps possible that can lead to their release before September over an alleged plot to assassinate government officials.
New Chairman of CARICOM, St Lucia’s Prime Minister Philip J Pierre says the regional integration movement must continue to move closer to the people.
Trinidadian businessman Dominic Hadeed and his wife Genevieve will remain detained while they pursue a case challenging their detention under the ongoing State of Emergency (SoE) over an alleged plot to assassinate government officials.
During his recent visit to Guyana, Prime Minister of Jamaica, Andrew Holness, reaffirmed the importance of CARICOM to his country’s national development, describing the regional integration movement as “an important instrument of multilateral engagement.”
