A judge sen­tenced for­mer El Sal­vador Pres­i­dent Mauri­cio Fu­nes to 14 years in prison Mon­day for ne­go­ti­at­ing with gangs dur­ing his ad­min­is­tra­tion.

The Unit Trust Cor­po­ra­tion’s (UTC) net in­come for its 2022 fi­nan­cial year was $52 mil­lion, a dip of $20 mil­lion or 27.7 per cent from its 2021 in­come, ac­cord­ing to the cor­po­ra­tion’s 2022 an­nu­al re­port.

Two-time Olympic swim­mer Dy­lan Carter won his sec­ond gold medal in three days and third medal over­all when he swam to vic­to­ry in the men's 50 me­tres but­ter­fly on the fi­nal day of the in­au­gur­al AP Race In­ter­na­tion­al Long Course (50m) at the Lon­don Aquat­ic Cen­ter in Eng­land on Mon­day's Bank Hol­i­day.

The hoot­ing of the red howler mon­keys had my adren­a­line pump­ing while walk­ing through their ter­ri­to­ry in the Covi­gne Riv­er Gorge.

A sure sign of when an elec­tion, lo­cal or gen­er­al, is near, is the ap­pear­ance in the me­dia of leaked in­for­ma­tion about cor­rup­tion, re­al or pro­pa­gan­dised. The sig­nals have been clear over the last cou­ple weeks with a num­ber of re­ports on al­leged cor­rup­tion ap­pear­ing in the me­dia.