ACCRA, (Reuters) – A bus hit a cargo truck north of Ghana’s second city Kumasi overnight, killing 71 people in the West African country’s deadliest road crash for years, authorities said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama cannot select the most liberal possible candidate for the U.S.
WASHINGTON/HAVANA, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama will meet with dissidents when he makes a historic visit to Cuba next month, the White House said yesterday, but Republicans complained that the trip would only lend legitimacy to the island’s Communist government.
The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Richard Stanton, who is accused of killing businesswoman Patricia Sanasie, continued yesterday with police inspector Nolan Burnette being subjected to further examinations by both the prosecution and the defence.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Top U.S. and Brazilian medical experts met yesterday to launch a research partnership to find a vaccine against the Zika virus that has spread rapidly since it first appeared in the Americas last year.
(Trinidad Guardian) Fears that the rapidly spreading Zika virus would hit the shores of T&T materialised yesterday when Health Minister Terrence Deyalsingh announced T&T’s first confirmed case. Careful
A South Sophia man was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail by a city court after making an appearance on a wounding charge.
(Trinidad Express) Prakash Ramadhar has resigned as political leader of the Congress of the People (COP).
BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – As if the European Union does not have crises enough, now traffic chaos in its congested capital Brussels is being blamed on… hungry mice.
PPP member Kwame McCoy, ex-policeman Shawn Hinds and Jason Abdulla are to be charged with throwing a bowl of faeces at newspaper columnist Freddie Kissoon in 2010, well-placed sources say.
WASHINGTON/HAVANA, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama today announced a historic visit to Cuba next month, the first U.S.
High profile People Progressive Party (PPP) member, Kwame McCoy was yesterday detained by the police and is currently in custody as the probe into the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing continues.
Hours after Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) ranks raided the Kitty home and Regent Street store of a businessman, former attorney general Anil Nandlall yesterday called on government to immediately make public the protocols governing the unit.
President David Granger on Tuesday told CARICOM Heads that the threat to Guyana’s territorial sovereignty from Venezuela is as grave as it has ever been and appealed for regional solidarity.
A construction worker was killed just after mid-day yesterday after he was hit off his bicycle by a speeding minibus on the Mocha Access Road, East Bank Demerara.
A man was yesterday unanimously found not guilty of raping a 13-year-old girl back in 2011.
Former President Donald Ramotar has roasted the APNU+AFC government over the manner in which it treated the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the death of historian Dr Walter Rodney and the three Caribbean commissioners.
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday said that it is disappointed that the APNU+AFC government’s proposed legislation to liberalise the telecommunications sector is yet to be laid in parliament.
Sun & Sand Mining and Minerals Resource (UK) has submitted an application to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for an authorisation for large scale mining in the Cuyuni/Mazaruni.
The bulk of monies allocated for the Ministry of Legal Affairs will go towards the balance owed to Surinamese beverage company RUDISA International NV, which had won a judgement against the former government at the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ).
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