WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s decision to take a $916 million loss on his 1995 income tax return showed his business acumen and “genius” at figuring out how to minimize his tax bill, two of the Republican presidential candidate’s advisers said yesterday.
MANILA, (Reuters) – Philippines President Rodrigo Duterte apologised “profoundly and deeply” to the Jewish community yesterday, and said his references to the Holocaust while discussing his war on drugs were to hit back at critics who had likened him to Adolf Hitler.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombians narrowly rejected a peace deal with Marxist guerrillas in a referendum yesterday, plunging the nation into uncertainty and dashing President Juan Manuel Santos’ painstakingly negotiated plan to end the 52-year war.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – A judge in El Salvador has reopened the case of a massacre allegedly carried out by soldiers in 1981 that is considered the worst atrocity committed during the country’s brutal civil war, a lawyer involved in the matter said on Saturday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE/KINGSTON, (Reuters) – Haiti and Jamaica implored residents in vulnerable coastal areas to evacuate and Cuba suspended flights today as Hurricane Matthew, the strongest storm to menace the Caribbean islands since 2007, spun slowly toward the region.
SHARJAH, United Arab Emirates, CMC – Pakistan defeated West Indies by 59 runs, in the second One-Day International at the Sharjah Cricket Stadium here Sunday.
Attorney Charles Ramson Jnr has resigned as a Member of Parliament with immediate effect to pursue a Masters in oil and gas and has since registered his disappointment at the lack of youth representation in the House and the government’s refusal to send Bills to a parliamentary select committee.
ADDIS ABABA, (Reuters) – Police in Ethiopia’s Oromiya region fired teargas and warning shots on Sunday to disperse anti-government protesters at a religious festival, triggering a stampede that the opposition party said killed at least 50 people.
The controversial award of a juice contract to Surinamese company Rudisa could be in deep trouble as the Government Analyst Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) was unable to do a vital test because of broken equipment and no sample from the aggrieved local bidder, Topco was provided for comparison.
Babylon, Corentyne, Berbice also called Number 64 Village is home to approximately 600 people.
Three businesses lost millions of dollars yesterday, when a fire of unknown origin swept through a section of the commercial zone in Central Bartica.
The Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) has started a process which could lead to millions in cash and other assets belonging to fugitive drug convict Barry Dataram, being forfeited, as outlined in the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CTF) legislation.
Two brothers were killed while their friend was left hospitalised in serious condition after a collision at Friendship, East Bank Demerara yesterday afternoon.
A family in Crabwood Creek has been plunged into mourning at the loss of not one but two family members to suicide last week.
Government has instructed that the sunken river dredge belonging to Crown Mining Supplies, which has been blocking the Mazaruni channel for the past four months, be removed immediately, even if it means destroying it.
A recently-concluded Situation Analysis of Children and Women in Guyana found that one in every five Amerindian girls between ages 15 and 19 was a mother as was one in every four girls who lived in poor houses.
A youth group outreach project coined ‘Expedition Cinderella’, exposed 31 coastlanders to the remote regions of Guyana, bringing them face to face with a beauty Guyanese often hear about but oftentimes do not experience.
A processing clerk was yesterday morning robbed of $2.5 million worth in fish glue and a quantity of cash shortly after leaving the Meadow Bank wharf on the East Bank Demerara and the police have since arrested one person.
As the police continue to investigate the murder of the Gangaram cattle farmer whose bullet riddled body was found on Thursday, a man has been taken into custody, this newspaper was told.
Fifty-two years ago, a mother gave birth to triplets—one boy and two girls.
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