Updated: Delta passenger died in Puerto Rico hospital- Spokesman
A male passenger who was on board a Delta Airlines flight bound for New York on Tuesday passed away shortly after the aircraft was diverted to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
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A male passenger who was on board a Delta Airlines flight bound for New York on Tuesday passed away shortly after the aircraft was diverted to San Juan, Puerto Rico.
The Ministry of Public Works recently awarded three contracts for the installation of street lights along the Corentyne Highway, Region Six and the contractor is mobilizing for the work.
The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) this afternoon said that West Indies Head Coach Ottis Gibson and newly appointed Captain and Vice Captain Darren Sammy and Brendan Nash will host a media briefing tomorrow in Kingston, Jamaica.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A gunman using what investigators believe was a high-velocity rifle fired up to seven shots at the Pentagon early today, shattering two windows but injuring no one.
Justice William Ramlal today quashed the indictment against a man who had been accused of murdering a woman in December 2005.
A former employee of murdered Guyana-trained Belizean lawyer Richard Stuart and his wife, Maria has been held in Belize connection with the investigation, newsbelize.com
GROZNY, Russia, (Reuters) – Islamist rebels killed at least four people today as they tried to seize Chechnya’s parliament in a brazen suicide attack that showed Russia has failed to quell insurgency on its southern flank.
(Jamaica Observer) A number of Jamaican women facing deportation from Britain have refused that country’s offer of £5,000 to assist them to re-settle in their homeland before their prison sentences end, fearing that accepting this money will jeopardise the chances of winning their deportation appeal.
RALEIGH, North Carolina, (Reuters) – U.S. Olympic 400 metres champion LaShawn Merritt has been suspended through July 2011 after testing positive for a banned substance found in a male enhancement product, the U.S.
The General Secretary of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union, Seepaul Narine this morning said that sugar workers across the country have proceeded on strike.
The Office of the President is inviting bids for the building of Tipperary Hall at Buxton.
Several dozen persons were this evening undergoing treatment for suspected food poisoning at hospitals in Berbice and Georgetown after eating food served at a retreat coordinated by the ‘B’ Division Community Policing Group in the Ancient County.
A prominent Belizean lawyer, who was trained in Guyana, and his wife were murdered early this morning in Belize as they were about to enter their home.
The Guyana Sugar Corporation this afternoon said it was “extremely alarmed” at a threat made in the name of an official of the sugar union, GAWU for workers to go on an industry-wide strike from tomorrow.
Police on the Essequibo Coast are investigating the murder of a 40-year-old woman who was found in a pool of blood.
A 21-year-old woman was this morning treated at the Diamond Health Centre for a graze from a bullet during a robbery at Kaneville, East Bank Demerara.
Police today said that two UK-based brothers were last evening robbed of jewellery and cellular phones at Creen Street, North Cummingsburg.
The third suspect in last Friday’s robbery at Port Kaituma during which millions were stolen, a pregnant woman brutalized and a policeman shot, was this morning apprehended while sitting on a swing in the compound of a hotel.
(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Golding’s agreement to a commission of enquiry into the Christopher “Dudus” Coke/Manatt, Phelps and Phillips affair signals an imminent change of leadership, political commentators say.
(Barbados Nation) The die appears cast on Mia Mottley’s leadership of the Barbados Labour Party [BLP].
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