News

Just two weeks before his scheduled release, a Lusignan Prison inmate had his right hand severed in an industrial accident while working outside of the prison.

Stating that he is seeing signs that both the Rose Hall and Skeldon sugar estates are heading for closure, Region Six Chairman David Armogan on Wednesday made an impassioned plea to the government to keep them open otherwise he said it would be a serious blow to Berbice.

Jamil Young Junior, also known as ‘Jamil Charles,’ who was charged last year with the murder of Agricola resident Randy Persaud, was freed yesterday due to insufficient evidence against him.

A jury yesterday heard   that murder accused Christopher Da Silva confessed to stabbing 17-year-old Reyad Khan, who was at the time accosting him while armed with a gun.

According to the newly-promoted Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI), Geoffrey Vaughn the ongoing replacement of the Liliendaal Bridge will not affect the soon-to-start work on the sinkhole at the Kitty seawall.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has recused himself from issues related to TransCanada Corp’s application for a permit for the Keystone XL pipeline, the State Department said in a letter yesterday to the environmental group Greenpeace.

  Residents of Black Bush Polder have voiced their concerns in regards to a plot of land located in Yakusari, Black Bush Polder, which has been used for many years as a play field, but was recently leased to villagers of the said area.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The Department of Justice is deploying 50 judges to immigration detention facilities across the United States, according to two sources and a letter seen by Reuters and sent to judges yesterday.

Youths of the Sophia Juvenile Detention Centre will now have the opportunity to participate in karate training, courtesy of the Guyana Karate College (GKC), thanks to the intervention of non-governmental organisation, Enhanced Potential to Inspire Change (EPIC)-Guyana.

SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korea’s Constitutional Court upheld the impeachment of President Park Geun-hye yesterday, removing her from office over a graft scandal involving big business that has gripped the country for months.

(Barbados Nation) Just short of a week after Standard & Poor’s lowered its long-term foreign and local currency sovereign credit ratings on Barbados, Moody’s Investors Service, has followed suit.

(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — The government is to introduce a new financial services consumer protection agency to protect commercial bank customers from exorbitant bank fees.

  CARACAS,  (Reuters) – A World Bank tribunal order for Venezuela to pay $1.4 billion in damages to Exxon Mobil Corp over nationalizations has been annulled, a lawyer for the government said yesterday.

A file in relation to last week’s cell phone theft at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, involving a female special constabulary rank has been sent to the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) for recommendations.

An excavator operator was yesterday remanded to prison after he was accused of unlawful possession of a firearm and matching rounds of ammunition.

BRIDGETOWN, Barbados,  (Reuters) – England’s Alex Hales and Joe Root struck centuries as the tourists cruised to a series sweep with a massive 186-run victory over West Indies in the third and final one-day international at the Kensington Oval today.

Former Attorney General Anil Nandlall today queried the role of UK expert Sam Sittlington in the operations of the Special Organised Crime Unit which saw the arrest of former President Bharrat Jagdeo on Tuesday and the questioning of several former PPP/C Ministers.

Former People’s Progressive Party minister Robert Persaud today broke his silence on the Special Organised Crime Unit’s (SOCU) investigation into the controversial ‘Pradoville 2’ allocation of lands saying financial constraints caused him to sell the property.

Caribbean Airlines (CAL) says that due to scheduled maintenance work being conducted on the airport runway by the Airport Authority of Trinidad & Tobago (AATT), the Piarco International Airport will be closed during the hours of 11:00 p.m.

(Trinidad Guardian) T&T-born former professional footballer Dwight Yorke encountered problems entering the United States recently because he used a United Kingdom passport, Finance Minister Colm Imbert says.