The Senior Civil Judge South has ordered the garbage collection truck company and one of their drivers to pay Rs42.7 million in compensation to the family of a man who was crushed by a garbage collection vehicle. Announcing the verdict, eight years after the accident, the court ordered the defendants to pay the compensation to the plaintiffs […]
Hurricane Melissa’s confirmed death toll climbed to 49 on Thursday, according to official reports, after wreaking destruction across much of the northern Caribbean and picking up speed as it headed past Bermuda in the North Atlantic. Authorities in Haiti, which was not directly hit but suffered days of torrential rains from the slow-moving storm, reported […]