IN JAMAICA: Big contraband bust at Tower Street correctional centre

 Wednesday. February 23. 2022

Officers at the Tower Street Adult Correctional Centre in Kingston have busted a contraband smuggling enterprise at the facility.

Some time yesterday, numerous packages of uncustomed cigarettes, ganja, alcohol and lighters were found in a staff locker room. 

However, the Department of Correctional Service (DCS) says no one has been identified as the owner of the items.

A day after the contraband bust, Zavia Mayne, state minister in the Ministry of National Security, highlighted that the new Corrections Act imposes harsher penalties for possession of prohibited items in prison.

He did not address the latest contraband bust but warned that no breach would be tolerated. 

Putin declares and starts War on Ukraine while Donald Trump praises the move. It is estimated over 100,000 people could be killed

 

As Ukraine Shudders, Donald Trump Calls Vladimir Putin's Incursion 'Pretty Smart' The former president made his remarks at an event at his Mar-a-Lago resort on Wednesday night. On Tuesday, he called Putin's strategy "genius."

 Wednesday, Feb 23, 2022

With millions of Ukrainians fearing for their lives Wednesday night amid reports of an imminent Russian invasion of their country, former President Donald Trump said Russian leader Vladimir Putin was “pretty smart” for sparking what could be the biggest conflict in Europe since World War II.

“He’s taking over a country for $2 worth of sanctions. I’d say that’s pretty smart,” Trump said at his Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida, according to New York Times reporter Shane Goldmacher and video footage obtained by the pro-Democratic group American Bridge. “He’s taking over a country, really a vast, vast location, a great piece of land with a lot of people, just walking right in.” The former U.S. commander in chief added, “This would

Trump and Putin

have never happened, ever in a million years,” and said he understands Putin, seemingly suggesting that President Joe Biden is mismanaging the situation in Ukraine, where Putin has decided to support Russian-backed separatists’ bid to break up the country and has dispatched Russian troops. Biden this week imposed sanctions on Russian institutions and officials and warned far tougher action could follow.

“Now they laugh at us,” Trump said of U.S. adversaries, according to Goldmacher.

Queen holds weekly call with PM as she battles on despite Covid infection Her Majesty, 95, is continuing to experience mild cold-like symptoms after testing positive for coronavirus on Sunday and has been self-isolating at Windsor Castle

 The Queen is recovering from her bout of Covid and managed today to hold her weekly audience with the Prime Minister.

The 95-year-old monarch is continuing to experience mild cold-like symptoms after testing positive for coronavirus on Sunday and has been self-isolating at Windsor Castle.

A number of palace staff who work and care for Her Majesty are also understood to have been hit by the virus in the last few days.

Concerns for the nation’s longest reigning monarch have been heightened in recent days, given her age and recent health scares, including an overnight stay in hospital last October to undergo a series of tests and a back sprain the following month.

Buckingham Palace had insisted the Queen, who is triple vaccinated, would this week be continuing light duties at her desk.