BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Pro-impeachment lawmakers chanted “Dilma Out” in the lower house of Brazil Congress yesterday, as it opened a raucous three-day debate on whether to impeach President Dilma Rousseff on charges of manipulating budget accounts.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – Thousands of Egyptians angered by President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi’s decision to hand over two islands to Saudi Arabia called yesterday for the government to fall, chanting a slogan from the 2011 Arab Spring uprising.
A Wortmanville man was remanded to prison on Thursday after being charged with slashing his common-law wife’s hand with a bread knife.
Former psychiatric patient Raymond Samaroo, who has been charged multiple times with the theft of vehicles, was on Wednesday charged once again with the crime.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Jailed former Guatemalan President Otto Perez was accused yesterday of negotiating and receiving part of a $25 million bribe in exchange for granting a port concession to a Spanish company, the attorney general’s office said yesterday.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica – Local onion production has doubled, moving from 6 per cent in 2013 to 12 per cent of local consumption in 2015, according to the Ministry of Industry, Commerce, Agriculture and Fisheries.
BALTIMORE, (Reuters) – In the port city of Baltimore, where Europeans once streamed into America after crossing the Atlantic by ship, a 47-year-old immigrant named Rhonda is in a desperate position.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela yesterday reversed a half-hour time change that was one of the signature measures of former president Hugo Chavez’s idiosyncratic 14-year rule.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti will not meet a deadline to complete its presidential election by April 24, the top election official said on Thursday, without giving a new date to hold the already delayed vote in the impoverished Caribbean country.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – A magnitude 7.3 earthquake struck southern Japan last night killing at least 11 people, injuring hundreds more and trapping people in collapsed buildings, media reported, just over a day after a quake killed nine people in the same region.
The Alliance for Change this evening said it was unaware of the appointment of Brian Tiwarie as a ministerial adviser and says it supported President David Granger’s decision to rescind it.
(Barbados Nation) Another no-ball now awaits several of the stars from the triumphant West Indies’ World Twenty20 team.
The National Communications Network today said that Lennox Cornette has been chosen as its new Chief Executive Officer.
About 0230h. today, the police say that three men, all armed with firearms, entered the Shell Fuel Station at McDoom, Georgetown, and held up the security guard and three female employees and took away a total of $51,000.00 and a cell phone.
Minister of State Joseph Harmon has told Cabinet that it was the Chinese Ambassador to Guyana Zhang Limin who arranged for four China-based companies, interested in investing in Guyana, to transport him to their respective offices located in different parts of the country during his visit last month.
Sugar workers’ unions GAWU and NAACIE yesterday announced that the remaining operations at the LBI estate will be shuttered, with implications for some 800 employees, as part of what GuySuCo says is the overdue integration of the East Demerara Estates that began five years ago.
Minister of State Joseph Harmon says contractor Brian Tiwarie is one of 34 persons who were appointed as honorary ministerial advisors.
Two of the corpses recovered after the March 3 Camp Street prison fire bore signs of trauma that was not consistent with fire injuries, according to Fire Chief Marlon Gentle, who said the deaths warrant investigation.
Two days after being discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), Traffic policeman Kelvin LaFleur, who was struck down while helping children across the Eccles, East Bank Demerara Public Road on Monday, succumbed.
Stands at D’urban Park which are to be used for next month’s independence anniversary event are being fortified following a report in Stabroek News about shoddy work and poor material used on them.
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