Daily Archive: Wednesday, January 23, 2019

Articles published on Wednesday, January 23, 2019

The hearse in Williamsfield, Manchester, Jamaica on Sunday with the wrong body, before it was eventually returned to the funeral home’s North Street base.

Jamaica: Funeral home cremates the wrong body

(Jamaica Observer) After a relatively short but debilitating battle with stage 3 breast cancer, all the relatives of 48-year-old Sandra Rhone wanted was to ensure that her request to be laid to rest beside her mother at Melrose Cemetery, in Manchester, was granted.

Robeson Benn

GECOM mandates CEO to report on poll readiness

With a 90-day constitutional  clock ticking, the Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) has mandated Chief Election Officer (CEO) Keith Lowenfield to prepare a report of possible scenarios with timelines for the holding of general and regional elections for discussion tomorrow when the commission meets again.

NBA roundup: Warriors’ Thompson ties 3-point record

Klay Thompson scored 23 of his 44 points in the third quarter Monday, tying an NBA record by connecting on his first 10 3-point attempts of the game, and the visiting Golden State Warriors extended their winning streak to eight games with a 130-111 victory over the Los Angeles Lakers.

First Test

When the West Indies take the field this morning at the start of the First Test versus Joe Root’s England team fans throughout the Caribbean will be taking surreptitious glances throughout the day at the nearest television set, hoping that this is the long awaited new beginning.