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How to avoid COVID-19 vaccine scams Published: February 22, 2021 10:58 AM EST Updated: February 22, 2021 1:45 PM EST Scammers are targeting people desperate to get their COVID-19 vaccine, and one Bonita Springs woman who was almost preyed upon has tips for you to keep your guard up. As people await their opportunity to get the COVID-19 vaccine, many people are vulnerable, especially our senior citizen population, which opens up the door for scammers. Mary Copeland almost fell for a scam. She’s signed up through the state to receive the vaccine, but she knew something was off when she receiv...

DENTON, Texas – State and federal recovery officials urge disaster survivors to watch for and report any suspicious activity or potential fraud.

Ursula von der Leyen, President of the European Commission (Image: GETTY) Since 2000, the UK has had a strategy in place to tackle tobacco smuggling which has achieved significant reductions in the size of the illicit market. Between 2017 and 2019, more than 2.8 billion illicit cigarettes and in excess of 439 tonnes of hand-rolling tobacco were seized by UK customs officials. HMRC has introduced new schemes to provide further controls on the tobacco supply chain and add further powers to challenge illicit production in the UK. Brexit endgame (Image: Express) Measures include the Raw Tobacco A...

Brexit warning: UK will be flooded with counterfeit EU cigarettes unless it acts now Ciaran McGrath Replay Video UP NEXT Pieter Cleppe was speaking after customs officials in Latvia said they had confiscated double the amount of illegal cigarettes crossing the border into the bloc from Belarus last year compared with 2019. And he said there were also big implications for the UK, citing a raid on an illegal factory in Belgium in December which netted a haul of 4.5 million cigarettes ready to be smuggled across the Channel. Mr Cleppe, a Brussels-based research fellow with the t...

16th February 2021 SADC Executive Secretary Stergomena Lawrence Tax is supposed to be accountable to member states and their citizens. But you wouldn’t know that if you read the 433 page long Board of Auditors Management report on the audit of the Southern African Development Community (SADC) secretariat for the financial year ending 31 st March 2020. Although the report does not spell it out in so many words, for eight years, Tax presided over an institution with a pattern of behaviour that suggests a penchant to undercut all avenues of oversight and frustrate scrutiny of its activities.F...