SAN BERNARDINO, Calif., (Reuters) – The couple suspected of killing 14 people at a holiday party in California amassed thousands of rounds of ammunition and a dozen pipe bombs, authorities said yesterday as they sought clues to the pair’s motives and whether they had links to Islamist militants.
CHENNAI, India, (Reuters) – The Indian military evacuated more than 2,000 residents stranded in the southern state of Tamil Nadu yesterday as the death toll from flooding rose to 269 after the heaviest cloudburst in over a century.
(Trinidad Guardian) Political legend, cultural icon, mentor to many. Those were among tributes which have poured in for longstanding political and cultural figure Dr Kamaluddin “Charch” Mohammed who died Tuesday night and who was laid to rest on Wednesday evening at the El Socorro cemetery.
(Trinidad Express) Trinidadian national Kareem Ibrahim, who was convicted in the United States and sentenced to life in prison for plotting to blow up the JFK airport in New York, has been declared a terrorist by the local courts.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Polarized Venezuela heads to the polls this weekend with a punishing recession forecast to rock the ruling Socialists and propel an optimistic opposition to its first legislative majority in 16 years.
The trial of the two police constables accused of assaulting detainee Colwyn Harding was adjourned again yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) BANKS HOLDINGS LIMITED (BHL) shareholders continue to inch closer to a massive payday as two conglomerates battle for control of the Barbadian company.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s presidential chief of staff traded barbs with the speaker of the lower house of Congress yesterday as President Dilma Rousseff’s government marshaled its defense for the impeachment proceedings launched against her on Wednesday.
(Barbados Nation) Avianca flight 124 touched down in Barbados on Wednesday evening at the Grantley Adams Inter-national Airport.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. military will let women serve in all combat roles, Defense Secretary Ash Carter said yesterday in a historic move striking down gender barriers in the armed forces.
The body of missing taxi driver Colin Clarke was found today in a trench at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara and it is suspected that he was robbed of his car and murdered.
ZURICH, (Reuters) – Switzerland’s Federal Office of Justice (FOJ) named Alfredo Hawit of Honduras, acting president of CONCACAF, and Juan Angel Napout of Paraguay, the head of CONMEBOL, as the two FIFA officials arrested in Zurich on Thursday.
Ahead of Venezuela’s parliamentary elections this weekend and the busy Christmas shopping season, government yesterday announced that it had launched Operation Dragnet, a massive countrywide anti-crime and counter-terrorism operation.
Bauxite workers will once again see no taxes levied on their overtime wages as government yesterday announced the reinstatement of their ‘no tax to overtime’ policy that was removed under the PPP/C administration in 2007.
The Board of the state-owned Guyana Chronicle yesterday fired the newspaper’s General Manager Michael Gordon and Editor Mark Ramotar with immediate effect citing weak management and poor circulation numbers.
Government yesterday announced that cabinet has approved the title of state land at Tucville to the Uncle Eddie’s Home, where the senior citizen facility is located.
Contracts to a total value of around $1.5b were announced at the Ministry of the Presidency yesterday and they include large sums for text books and roads and $39.8m for the Police Mounted Branch Stables.
The coach of an Agricola under-16 football team was yesterday remanded to prison after he pleaded not guilty to a drug charge at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Effective December 1, the Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) now has Rev Compton Meerabux as president and Christopher Ram as its first vice president.
Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman has ordered Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) Rickford Vieira to proceed on leave with immediate effect.
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