ISTANBUL/NIZHNY TAGIL, Russia, (Reuters) – Russia sent an advanced missile system to Syria on Wednesday to protect its jets operating there and pledged its air force would keep flying missions near Turkish air space, sounding a defiant note after Turkey shot down a Russian fighter jet.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – A local Venezuelan opposition leader was shot dead during a public meeting yesterday, his party said, days before a legislative election that is raising tensions around the politically polarized nation.
Several caregiving professionals are benefiting from a five-day elderly caregiver course being offered at the Recreation Centre of the Palms Geriatric Institution under the patronage of First Lady, Sandra Granger.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s second most powerful official rebuked Argentine President-Elect Mauricio Macri yesterday for “offending” a brother nation by calling for his country’s suspension from a regional trade bloc over rights accusations.
The University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus was back to normal yesterday after a fire on Tuesday evening devoured one of the Faculty of Natural Sciences’ buildings.
xSAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The chief executive of Brazil’s biggest independent investment bank and the leading senator in the governing coalition were arrested yesterday on suspicion of obstructing the country’s most sweeping corruption investigation ever.
Preparations for the Business Exposition, which opens tomorrow, are underway at the Sophia Exhibition Centre with the stationary stalls receiving a fresh coat of paint and pavilions to house several booths being set up to facilitate those businesses that will be showcased.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Mud from a dam that burst at an iron ore mine in Brazil earlier this month, killing 12 people and polluting an important river, is toxic, the United Nations’ human rights agency said yesterday.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s federal police used excessive force that resulted in five deaths, and murdered one other person, in an incident earlier this year in the troubled state of Michoacan, Mexico’s national human rights commission said yesterday.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentine President-elect Mauricio Macri named former JP Morgan executive and ex-central bank chief Alfonso Prat-Gay his finance minister yesterday in a sign that he will move quickly to restore the bank’s autonomy and free up the economy.
The government has signed a Memorandum of Understanding with Indian company Fedders Lloyd to build and equip the planned Specialty Hospital.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board president, Dave Cameron, has caved into pressure from CARICOM and will meet with Heads of Government in Grenada on December 4, to discuss the recommendations of the Cricket Governance Review report.
About 0345h. today, the police say that Patrick Ross, 57 years, of Grove, EBD, was entering his premises when he was confronted by two men, one of whom was armed with a firearm.
(Trinidad Guardian) The State is moving to deem a Trinidadian convicted in the United States a terrorist and obtain a freezing order of his assets and any transaction done on his behalf.
Orwin and Cleon Hinds, Kevin October and Roy Jacobs were yesterday each sentenced to 81 years in jail for the murder of 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, who was gunned down at her Robb Street, Georgetown home just over four years ago.
Classes at the University of Guyana (UG) will resume today even as lecturers in the Faculty of Natural Sciences are counting losses after a fire last evening destroyed the building that housed their offices.
Melissa Skeete, who was stabbed on Monday and tossed from a car onto a city street, succumbed on Monday night and the police are still hunting for the suspect—her common-law partner.
27-year-old Michelle Bristol of Diamond New Housing Scheme died last evening after collapsing at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri.
A Berbice River fuel supplier was shot to the face on Monday night during an attempted robbery in New Amsterdam.
Political parties should not be participating in elections in the Neighbourhood Democratic Councils (NDCs) since their presence can polarise the atmosphere and lead to a further loss of trust on the part of the citizens in the political process, trade unionist Lincoln Lewis says.
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