A 60-month sentence and an $80 million fine were yesterday handed down to each of the two men who were held last year with almost 130 pounds of cannabis after a shootout with police in Kitty.
TOKYO (Reuters) – A powerful earthquake rock-ed northern Japan today, the Japan Meteorological Agency said, generating a tsunami that hit the same region devastated by a massive quake, tsunami and nuclear disaster in 2011.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazilian President Michel Temer warned yesterday that the national debt could swell to the size of the country’s gross domestic product within eight years should public spending not be brought under control and fiscal reforms not enacted.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President-elect Donald Trump met with a stream of Cabinet hopefuls at his Manhattan office tower yesterday, but made no further announcements, keeping candidates and the public guessing about the shape of the administration that will take over on January 20.
Tuschen taxi driver Leroy Marshall was remanded to prison yesterday on charges of the unlawful possession of a gun and ammunition, which the police say a sniffer dog found hidden in his car.
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Colombian authorities arrested a dozen people on charges of trafficking girls into prostitution as part of an international human trafficking ring that preyed on poor teenagers in a jungle town in the country’s south, state prosecutors said yesterday.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The number of besieged Syrians has more than doubled over the past year to nearly one million, the United Nations aid chief told the Security Council yesterday, as the United States named 13 Syrian military commanders it accused of killing civilians.
Uganda has offered to assist Guyana in the development of its oil and gas sector and has advised that the creation of a legal framework be the first step.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos is healthy and has no cancerous tumours but will take medication and undergo one session of radiotherapy to eliminate any vestiges of a previous bout with the disease, he said yesterday.
WELLINGTON (Reuters) – An earthquake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.3 struck central New Zealand today, little more than a week after a powerful tremor centred in the upper South Island rocked the country and killed two people.
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday voiced its concern that nearly 100 Cuba-trained doctors are still awaiting placement although they have completed their compulsory one-year internship and there is a prevailing shortage of medical staff countrywide.
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – The bodies of nine men with signs of torture were discovered in the poor, hyper-violent Mexican state of Guerrero, the state government said yesterday.
Assistant Superintendent of Police Jermaine Grant, 28 years, of Fort Street, Kingston, Georgetown, was today charged with causing the death by dangerous driving of Anmanie Deonarine.
Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton was this afternoon referred to the Privileges Committee over inaccurate statements he made in the National Assembly in August with regard to government’s controversial renting of the Sussex Street bond.
BULAWAYO, Zimbabwe, CMC – Batting coach Toby Radford said West Indies were guilty of panicking in the late stages of their Tri-Nations Series clash with Zimbabwe last Saturday, which resulted in the tied game at Queens Sports Club.
Police are investigating the alleged murder of Paul Rodney, 29 years, unemployed, of 530 West Ruimveldt, which occurred this morning about 0255h.
SAN FRANCISCO, (Reuters) – The main U.S. visa program for technology workers could face renewed scrutiny under President-elect Donald Trump and his proposed Attorney General, Senator Jeff Sessions, a long-time critic of the skilled-worker program.
Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited racked up an after-tax profit of $2.7B for the year ended September 30, 2016, four per cent lower than the previous year.
(Trinidad Guardian) CL Financial shareholders have raised the necessary funds to repay Government the billion-dollar debt owed from Government’s 2009 bailout of the former insurance giant.
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