Cheryl Springer

Neither the President nor any member of his cabinet has any form of authority to make interpretations of the Constitution enabling them to state with authority that legislation passed in the National Assembly was unconstitutional, says former Chief Parliamentary Counsel Bryn Pollard.

ABC Academy Principal Bernard Chandra was today charged and placed on $40,000 bail after he allegedly assaulted and threatened to kill his wife.

GIGLIO, Italy (Reuters) – The Costa Concordia liner was pulled upright off the island of Giglio today, in one of the world’s most complex and expensive salvage operations which the prime minister said had boosted Italy’s battered national pride.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – The lead singer in a heavy metal Christian rock band has been ordered by a California judge on Monday to stand trial for allegedly attempting to hire an undercover sheriff’s deputy to kill his estranged wife.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – At least 12 people were killed in a shooting today at the U.S.

ATLANTIC CITY, New Jersey (Reuters) – Nina Davuluri won the 2014 Miss America pageant on Sunday, becoming the first Indian-American to wear the crown, which went to Miss New York for the second year in a row.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Rapper Kanye West has been charged with battery and attempted grand theft for an alleged altercation with a photographer at Los Angeles International Airport, a city official said on Friday.

Lawrence Rambarran, who chopped his wife Deborah Anne Allen to death with a cutlass after an argument in 2009, was yesterday sentenced to 19 years imprisonment by Justice James Bovell-Drakes.

Repsol is set to begin oil exploration again with a fresh round of 3D seismic surveys in the offshore basin close to Suriname with a view to determining the hydrocarbon potential that may lead to a US$200 million drilling campaign after 2015.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – For Oscar and Grammy-winning actress and singer Jennifer Hudson, the decision to play anti-apartheid activist Winnie Mandela in her first lead role was no easy matter, especially when she saw what the former South African first lady meant to the nation.

A businesswoman was this morning found dead in her Diamond Housing Scheme home which was partly burnt, police said.

An unmarked bag containing ten parcels of cocaine was this afternoon found at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri and it is believed that it was to be placed on a flight bound for New York.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Dennis Farina, the former Chicago cop turned film and television actor best known for his role as wise-cracking detective Joe Fontana on the hit NBC police drama “Law & Order,” died in Scottsdale, Arizona, yesterday, his publicist said.

(BBC) – Catherine, Duchess of Cambridge, the wife of Prince William has given birth to baby boy, Kensington Palace said today.

MACAU (Reuters) – The film Barfi scooped top honors in India’s version of the Oscars at a ceremony in the Chinese gambling haven of Macau on Saturday that also celebrated a century of Bollywood, which makes up a big chunk of a multi-billion-dollar film industry.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Michael Jackson’s eldest son testified on Wednesday in the wrongful death lawsuit filed by his family against AEG Live that the late pop star was unhappy with the concert promoter in the run-up to his “This Is It” concert series in 2009.

A 22-year-old Alberttown woman is now disfigured after she was doused with a noxious liquid suspected to be acid on Friday night at Cummings and Sixth streets, Alberttown by a man on a bicycle.

Akeem Sampson, the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) corporal whose decomposing body was found in his home last Friday, died as a result of haemorrhage and shock due to a fractured skill, according to an autopsy done on his body.

A man was brutally chopped to death this morning at a mining camp in Big Creek, Region One.

An International Commission of Inquiry is to be set up to determine the circumstances surrounding the death of renowned Academic and Historian Dr Walter Rodney.