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Government announces reduction in property tax

Published:Monday | March 18, 2024 | 12:10 AM

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC) The Trinidad and Tobago government has introduced new legislation that will reduce the rate of residential property tax by as much as 33 per cent, according to Finance Minister Colm Imbert. Imbert told legislators on Friday...

UWI defends law programme after criticism that some courses too ‘soft’

Published:Monday | March 18, 2024 | 12:10 AM

BRIDGETOWN (CMC): The University of the West Indies (UWI) Cave Hill campus has stoutly defended its law programme after Chief Justice Sir Patterson Cheltenham questioned the quality of the programme and the lawyers it was producing . In...

More Muslim students getting support during Ramadan

Published:Monday | March 18, 2024 | 12:06 AM

DEARBORN, Michigan (AP): While Muslim students remain a rarity in many US school districts, they are a major presence in some communities, prompting public schools to be more attentive to their needs during the holy month of Ramadan, when dawn-to-...

Opposition leader faces deadline for standing down in race against Maduro

Published:Monday | March 18, 2024 | 12:06 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP): It’s her choice – but one on which the hopes of millions of Venezuelans fighting to restore their democracy depends. Barred from running for office, opposition leader María Corina Machado is facing pressure from foreign leaders...

Bengaluru fast running out of water, and a long, scorching summer still looms

Published:Monday | March 18, 2024 | 12:06 AM

BENGALURU (AP): Bhavani Mani Muthuvel and her family of nine have around five 20-litre (five-gallon) buckets worth of water for the week for cooking, cleaning and household chores. “From taking showers to using toilets and washing clothes, we...

Hunger soars and aid dwindles as gangs in Haiti suffocate the country

Published:Sunday | March 17, 2024 | 7:08 AM

PORT-AU-PRINCE, Haiti (AP) A crowd of about 100 people tried to shove through a metal gate in Haiti’s capital as a guard with a baton pushed them back, threatening to hit them. Undeterred, children and adults alike, some of them carrying babies,...

Republican lawmakers holding up funding for Haiti

Published:Saturday | March 16, 2024 | 12:12 AM

WASHINGTON (CMC): Republican lawmakers Friday said the Biden administration “owes Congress a lot more details in a more timely manner before it gets more funding,” for Haiti even as US Secretary of State Antony Blinken Friday warned that the...

Bermuda exploring new permanent residency status

Published:Saturday | March 16, 2024 | 12:12 AM

HAMILTON (CMC): The Bermuda government is proposing new guidelines for permanent residency certificates (PRC) in the British Overseas Territory, Economy and Labour Minister, Jason Hayward said a government paper on the issue has already been...

DPP defends deportation of US missionary and family

Published:Saturday | March 16, 2024 | 12:12 AM

ROSEAU, Dominica (CMC): The Director of Public Prosecution (DPP), Sherma Dalrymple, has defended the decision to deport a missionary and his family, saying their “continued stay in Dominica would have been detrimental and unlawful and, as such,...

Military leaders told police Bolsonaro plotted to remain in power despite election defeat

Published:Saturday | March 16, 2024 | 12:09 AM

SAO PAULO (AP):Two top Brazilian military leaders declared to police that former President Jair Bolsonaro presented them a plan for him to remain in power after the 2022 election he lost, but both refused and warned him they would arrest him if he...

Haitian-American national charged with murder

Published:Saturday | March 16, 2024 | 12:08 AM

BELMOPAN (CMC): A 59-year-old Haitian-American national was denied bail when he appeared in court here charged with two counts of murder and three counts of attempted murder arising out of a shooting incident earlier this week. Robert Joseph, who...

Newspaper peeved at non-response by Facebook after it is hacked

Published:Saturday | March 16, 2024 | 12:08 AM

KINGSTOWN, St. Vincent, CMC: The Searchlight newspaper, one of the three weekly tabloids published in St. Vincent and the Grenadines, has described as “callous” the response of Meta, the owners of Facebook and Instagram, after hackers took over its...