Defining trends for 2021 and beyond
TT Chamber president Charles Pashley. -
On April 22, the Trinidad and Tobago Chamber hosted its first signature event of 2021, the annual business meeting which was held virtually.
The meeting’s theme – Change that matters: Defining trends for 2021 and beyond .. Achieving your company’s greatest potential – was selected against the background of understanding that although the pandemic continues to have broadbased negative impacts on the performance of the economy, there have been encouraging signs of adaptation by firms to pandemic induced constraints.
Describing these as “shifting and uncertain times,” the new chamber president, Charles Pashley noted, “Our country is once again at a point of inflection, our dependence on energy has resulted in our fortunes being subjected to the wild swings in pricing and supply availability, which continue to challenge the revenue and foreign exchange earning capacity of the economy, yet ou
Detroit pharmacist sentenced to 8 years in prison for illegally distributing opioids
By Amber Ainsworth
DETROIT (FOX 2) - A Detroit pharmacist received an eight-year prison sentence for distributing hundreds of thousands of opioid doses that weren t medically necessary.
Abidoun Fabode, 57, co-owned Friendz Pharmacy. Federal authorities said he dispensed more than 245,080 dosages of controlled substances, including oxycodone and oxymorphone, to patient recruiters who had doctors write them unneeded prescriptions. One of those doctors worked at Friendz and would see patients for only a few minutes before writing scripts for the drugs, feds said.
Fabode knew the prescriptions weren t legitimate but still provided the pills in exchange for more than $1,895,000 in cash, authorities said.
When: Clay Township supervisors meeting, April 27.
What happened:Â Don Moyer and Gary Calik, public works employees, notified officials of an uptick in vandalism at Snyder Community Park 1 on Clay School Road and Snyder Community Park 2 on Snyder Lane. Vandals have damaged ballfields and public restrooms, they said, and they asked supervisors to look into installing surveillance cameras at the parks.
Response: Supervisors voted 3-0 to have public works employees install surveillance cameras and signs about the cameras at the parks. Vice chair Keith Martin said he is âinterested to see if that corrects some of the behaviors.
Why it matters: With warmer weather approaching, outdoor attendance will increase at the parks. Moyer said the park on Snyder Lane has seen more vandalism than the Clay School Road Park. He said having surveillance cameras at the parks will allow the township to capture vehicle and license plate information to identify the vandals. The incident
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WARREN A Warren man pleaded guilty Thursday to a multiple-count case involving fentanyl-related compounds, the same day the federal Drug Enforcement Administration announced a new initiative to disrupt the flow of deadly fentanyl into areas like the Mahoning Valley.
Michael Crain, 46, of Van Wye Street SE, Warren, pleaded guilty before Trumbull County Common Pleas Judge Ronald J. Rice to two counts of trafficking in a fentanyl-related compound, possession of a fentanyl-related compound and having a weapon as a convicted felon.
Crain was named in a secret indictment Dec. 15, 2020, on eight charges, but he agreed to plead to a deal that called for him to be convicted of four charges. The plea deal headed off a scheduled trial that was set for May 10 in Rice’s courtroom.
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DEA starts Project Wave Breaker to reduce amount of fentanyl coming in from Mexico
Tempe police found 9,500 fentanyl pills during a traffic stop Friday, March 5, 2021.(Source: Tempe Police Department via AZ Family)
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CLEVELAND, Ohio (WOIO) - The Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) launched Project Wave Breaker to disrupt the flow of fentanyl into the United States.
According to the DEA, fentanyl is a synthetic opioid that is approximately 50 times more potent than heroin and 100 times more potent than morphine.
Research from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), shows more than 87,200 people died from an overdose in 2020.