(Trinidad Express) Drama unfolded in Tunapuna yesterday as two women, identified as robbery suspects, were shot and killed by a policewoman assigned to the Tunapuna/Piarco Regional Corporation Municipal Police.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Tagging Jamaicans as “ingenious advanced thinkers”, Chilean Ambassador Alfredo García said Jamaica’s gesture to host the 33 miners who were trapped, their spouses, and rescue workers for a vacation here is fantastic.
The police this evening announced that they had apologized to Michelle Baldeo, the owner of a building at Farm, East Bank Demerara that they had searched and ransacked on Monday while she was not at home.
Police ranks searching for bandits who committed a daring multi-million dollar robbery on a gold buyer at Port Kaituma, North West came under gunfire this afternoon resulting in detective constable Emrit Winter being wounded.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia agreed yesterday to help build Venezuela’s first nuclear power plant, sell it tanks and buy $1.6 billion of oil assets, reinforcing ties with President Hugo Chavez who shares Russian opposition to US global dominance
Chavez presided over the deals at a Kremlin ceremony with Russian President Dmitry Medvedev, who said the two countries shared a “strategic partnership” and a vision of a world free of overwhelming U.S.
After originally winning the bronze, Guyana’s track and field star Aliann Pompey has been awarded the silver medal in the women’s 400 meters at the recently completed Commonwealth Games, which were held in Delhi, India.
COPIAPO, Chile, (Reuters) – Amid the relief and euphoria over the rescue of Chile’s trapped miners, the grim details of the men’s darkest days underground are coming to light.
The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company today said that the outage to its Emagine Broadband system this morning was due to a problem with one of its servers.
The Government of Suriname on Tuesday invested CARICOM Secretary-General, Edwin Carrington, with the Republic’s highest national award – the Grand Officer in the Order of the Yellow Star.
Barama Company Limited has confirmed the lay-off of 274 workers following a boiler explosion at the company’s plywood factory at Land of Canaan on the east Bank of Demerara.
The National Assembly unanimously passed legislation tonight which allows non-capital punishment for various categories of convicted murderers, but the death penalty remains on the books.
–280 workers may be laid off
Around 280 workers at the Land of Canaan operation of Barama Company Limited are expected to be made redundant tomorrow as the company shuts down its operations after negligence on the part of four workers resulted in its boiler being irretrievably damaged.
The decomposing body of the man found with a bullet wound in the head in a South Sophia canal was today identified as that of Devon Simpson, 34, of Kara Kara, Linden.
COPIAPO, Chile, (Reuters) – Chile’s 33 newly rescued miners recovered from their ordeal today while also pondering the celebrity status they have gained following a more than two-month entrapment deep under a remote desert.
(BBC) A report by the Britain’s Equality and Human Rights Commission (EHRC) has highlighted a continuing picture of disadvantage, under-achievement and denial of opportunity, among Britain’s Afro-Caribbean community.
COPIAPO, Chile, (Reuters) – All of Chile’s 33 trapped miners were rescued from deep underground in a special capsule yesterday as an extraordinary two-month survival story many call a miracle triggered wild celebrations.