T&T attorney dies addressing Court of Appeal

Former deputy chief state solicitor general, Neil Byam, collapsed and died on Friday while addressing the Court of Appeal.

Byam’s death, telling legislators he was a public servant of note.

The Russian women arrive in Argentina heavily pregnant, the country's national migration agency said

More than 5000 pregnant Russian women have entered Argentina in recent months, including 33 on a single flight on Thursday, officials say.

The latest arrivals were all in the final weeks of pregnancy, according to the national migration agency.

It is believed the women want to make sure their babies are born in Argentina to obtain Argentinian citizenship.

The number of arrivals has increased recently, which local media suggests is a result of the war in Ukraine.

Of the 33 women who arrived in the Argentinian capital on one flight on Thursday, three were detained because of "problems with their documentation", joining three more who arrived the pre- vious day, migration agency head Florencia Carignano told La Nacion.

The Russian women had initially claimed they were visiting Argentina as tourists, she said.

"In these cases, it was detected that they did not come here to engage in tourism activities. They acknowledged it themselves."

She said the Russian

Having an Argentine child also speeds up the citizenship process for parents. As it stands, Russians can travel visa-free to only 87 countries.

A lawyer for the three women who were detained on Thursday said that they are being "falsely imprisoned", as they are being held on suspicion of being "false tourists". This is a term "which does not exist in our legislation," Christian Rubilar said. (Excerpt from BBC News)