HAVANA (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama pushed Cuba to improve human rights during his historic visit to the Communist-led island yesterday, publicly sparring with President Raul Castro who showed flashes of anger and hit back at US “double standards”.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A flight attendant fled when she was selected for a random screening at Los Angeles International Airport, prompting a search that turned up 66 pounds (30 kg) of cocaine in her carry-on bags, a Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman said yesterday.
A 40-year-old man was yesterday sentenced to a total of seven years in jail after he copped to farming marijuana and having two illegal guns and an assortment of ammunition.
An Amatuk villager was yesterday granted her release on $50,000 bail after denying a charge that she had cannabis for trafficking.
PORT-AU-PRINCE (Reuters) – Haiti’s lower chamber of parliament on Sunday rejected a programme submitted by Prime Minister Fritz Jean, lawmakers said, throwing up a new hurdle as the politically volatile country struggles to meet deadlines to transfer power from an interim to an elected government.
HAVANA (Reuters) – US Secretary of State John Kerry was encouraged by progress in the Colombian peace process after meeting yesterday in Havana with representatives of Colombia’s Marxist FARC guerrilla group and the Bogota government, a State Department spokesman said.
GENEVA/BEIRUT (Reuters) – The fate of President Bashar al-Assad will play no part in talks to end the Syrian war, the head of the government’s delegation said, leading the UN peace envoy to warn that lack of progress on the issue could threaten a fragile cessation of hostilities.
UNITED NATIONS/SEOUL (Reuters) – The UN Security Council agreed yesterday to a Chinese request to remove sanctions on four ships that had been blacklisted for ties to Pyongyang after China secured assurances the vessels would not use North Korean crews, a US official said.
BAMAKO (Reuters) – Gunmen yesterday attacked a hotel in Mali’s capital, Bamako, that had been converted into the headquarters of a European Union military training operation, but there no casualties among the mission’s personnel.
The number of voters who showed up to cast their ballots at the March 18 Local Government Elections was 47.1% of those eligible to vote, according to information released by the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) today.
The PPP today said that the results of the Local Government Elections show that it remains a formidable political force but it says it is still to pronounce on whether the polls have been free and fair.
(Trinidad Guardian) Forced to go into hiding after witnessing a contraband deal, 14-year-old Darian Nedd finally met his death yesterday, after two men chopped off his limbs with a cutlass and then set fire to his home, leaving him to die.
Despite trumpeting its “massive victory” in Friday’s local government elections, the PPP/C suffered a stunning defeat in Georgetown that raises questions about the party’s strategy and leadership in the most important municipality.
Controversial Local Government Elections (LGE) candidate Winston Harding, who won a seat to the City Council on Friday despite being disavowed by APNU+AFC says he will abide with its decision.
Government should revoke the radio licences controversially granted under the administration of former President Bharrat Jagdeo and failure to do so would send a message that the David Granger administration has no interest in remedying the wrongs inflicted on the nation, former Auditor-General Anand Goolsarran says.
Newly-elected City Hall councillor, James Samuels turns 90 tomorrow and says he is shocked that most people have focused on his age instead of what he can bring to making his constituency and by extension the country better.
Despite just winning one seat on the city council via proportional representation in Friday’s Local Government Elections (LGE), leader of Team Benschop for Mayor, Mark Benschop, said the seat will be rotated among members of the group and used to fight for the disempowered in Georgetown.
The same measure used to pay Cabinet ministers and members of parliament must apply to remaining government workers, General Secretary of the Guyana Trades Union Congress, Lincoln Lewis has said, amid growing disquiet by the union on wages talks.
Almost three months have passed without any charges over the murder of Keron Herbert, who was fatally shot on Boxing Day last year, prompting his father to call on police for answers.
Two newcomers to politics will soon be heading to City Hall and hope to foster positive change in their new role as city councillors.
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