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A federal court in New York has authorised the United States government to seize two private jets collectively worth $410 million that are allegedly owned by a Russian oligarch and registered via “shell companies” in the Virgin Islands and elsewhere, according to an affidavit filed for a seizure warrant in court on Monday.

Dar es Salaam. Ilala lawmaker, Mussa Azzan has been elected new Deputy Speaker of the National Assembly with 98.3 percent of all votes cast.

Out of 301 casted votes, Azzan, alias 'Zungu' garnered 296, out of which three were 'NO' and two destroyed.

Zungu will now be the second-in-command in the 12th parliament, with Dr Tulia Ackson, elected on February 1 serving as the Speaker.

The Caribbean Telecommunications Union (CTU) is urging regional thought leaders to start considering where the Caribbean fits into emerging metaverse technology.

The union hosted a webinar dubbed 'Traversing the Metaverse - A Caribbean Perspective', which examined the economic, social and cultural opportunities for different stakeholders, including governments and the private sector.

The Bahamas Aquatics Federation has named a four-member team for the 15th FINA (International Swimming Federation) World Short Course Swimming Championship (25 meters), set for December 16-21, at the Ethiad Arena, on Yas Island, Abu Dhabi in the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

Making the team are Joanna Evans, Lilly Higgs, Izaak Bastian and Lamar Taylor.

In light of gradual reopenings and increased vaccinations, Caribbean Hotel and Tourism Association (CHTA) is moving to stage the 40th edition of its travel marketplace event in face-to-face format. The event is expected to take place by May of next year.

Dubbed the region's largest tourism marketing event, Caribbean Travel Marketplace (CTM) aims to bring together buyers and sellers of the region's tourism products, goods and services. The event will also coincide with the CHTA's 60th anniversary.

The Caribbean is preparing to stage one of its largest tourism conventions, and it will be an in-person event, the first such regional conference since the COVID-19 pandemic struck in the first quarter of 2020.

Barbados and the Caribbean have lost another stalwart in the hotel and tourism industry with the passing of the former General Manager of the Sandy Lane Hotel and former President of the Barbados Hotel Association (now Barbados Hotel and Tourism Association), Richard Williams.

•  To meet with UAE PM, investors and crown prince of Abu Dhabi
•  Due back in Nigeria Sunday

Deji Elumoye in Abuja

President Muhammadu Buhari will depart Abuja today (Wednesday) to attend EXPO 2020 in Dubai, the United Arab Emirates (UAE).

By Thandiwe Garusa

PRESIDENT Emmerson Mnangagwa has sent a condolence message to the late Zimbabwe Investments Development Authority (ZIDA) chief executive officer Douglas Munatsi’s family following his sudden death in a house fire Monday morning.

In a statement, Mnangagwa described Munatsi as a creative and visionary business leader.

“The death early this morning of our inaugural Chief Executive Officer of the Zimbabwe Investments Development Authority (ZIDA) in unclear circumstances came to me as a great shock,” Mnangagwa said.

When President Yoweri Museveni announced a lockdown on March 18, 2020 to curb the first wave of Covid-19, Stephen Wasega’s boss at Gangu Junior School in Kampala paid his teachers Shs 100,000 each and advised them to return to their respective villages.

They also had to vacate the schoolhouses some of them, like Wasega, occupied.