Life sentence for Wiels assassin

Helmin Wiels’ murderer was sentenced to life in prison today in Curaçao. Wiels was a prominent anti-corruption activist and campaigner for Curaçao’s independence from the Netherlands
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Helmin Wiels’ murderer was sentenced to life in prison today in Curaçao. Wiels was a prominent anti-corruption activist and campaigner for Curaçao’s independence from the Netherlands

Latore Mackey, The Bahamas Prime Minister’s press secretary, was murdered in the early hours of this morning on Nassau’s Market Street

Patrick Manning has declined the Order of Trinidad & Tobago nomination extended to him by political rival and current Prime Minister, Kamla Persad-Bissessar

Former Prime Ministers of Trinidad & Tobago, Basdeo Panday and Patrick Manning, were nominated by Kamla Persad-Bissessar for the Order of Republic of T&T

Dame Louise Lake-Tack infuriated Antigua’s government by giving nineteen national awards in her final hours as Governor-General

Sir Ronald Sanders believes that a potentially independent Scotland, and a weakened United Kingdom, augers no benefits for the Caribbean