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  According to recent Caribbean reports and military tracking of the U.S. naval buildup in the southern Caribbean and off   Venezuela’s coast  the US is stepping up its presence in the waters aroune Venezuela. US destroyers sail from the Gul f west to the Caribbean Sea On Wednesday morning President Trump  said the waters around Venezuela are now “completely surrounded by the largest Armada ever assembled in the history of South America,” and that the U.S. has ordered a “total and complete blockade” of sanctioned Venezuelan oil tankers as part of a major naval buildup aimed at pressuring the country over alleged criminal activities and to reclaim what he described as stolen assets. Although these ships so far  are not destined for Trinidad and Tobago waters the American military have reportedlyincreased their air traffic through the Tobago airport. STEPHEN WEIR    USN aircraft carrier Ford.

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  Today, the new Minister of Justice, Arif Virani, and his predecessor, David Lametti, announced that Tim Rees’s conviction for the 1989 murder of 10-year-old Darla Thurott was to be sent back to the Ontario Court of Appeal to be reviewed. Darla was strangled in her bed at her home in Etobicoke on March 16, 1989.  She was found by her mother in the morning.  Tim Rees, then 25 years old, who had visited Darla’s parents the evening before and stayed overnight, was convicted of the murder on September 15, 1990, and sentenced to life imprisonment.  His appeal to the Court of Appeal was dismissed on June 16, 1994, and the Supreme Court of Canada refused to hear his case.  After 26 years in prison, he was released on parole in October 2016, and he remains on parole today.   Innocence Canada  adopted Mr. Rees’ case in 2016 and in 2018 filed an application claiming that he had been wrongly convicted with the then Minister of Justice, Jody W...