Cheryl Springer

Police today said that the Fitz Randolph Josiah was earlier in the day charged with the murder of his stepdaughter and made his first court appearance at the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court.

LONDON (Reuters) – Helen Mirren was crowned best actress at Britain’s top theatre awards on Sunday for reprising her Oscar-winning portrayal of the queen, while a stage version of a novel about a boy with autism was on track to be the top winner of the Olivier awards.

(Trinidad Express) -A female security guard at a primary school in south Trindiad was raped and robbed at gunpoint today.

LOS ANGELES | Wed Apr 24, 2013 12:59pm EDT(Reuters) – Oscar-winning actress Gwyneth Paltrow on Wednesday was named the world’s most beautiful woman for 2013 by People magazine, knocking pop singer Beyonce out of the top spot.

Police Lance Corporal Huford David was this morning charged with one count of trafficking in person for sexual exploitation and has been remanded to prison until May 2.

The opposition last night utilised its one member majority to completely cut the $5.63 billion Air Transport Programme of the Ministry of Transport and Hydraulics budget.

(Reuters) – Explosive West Indies opener Chris Gayle smashed a century off 30 balls in an Indian Premier League match today and finished on 175 not out, the highest ever Twenty20 innings.

CHICAGO (Reuters) – Giant US agribusiness firm Cargill Inc confirmed that four workers died late Sunday at its grain delivery facility in Canarana, Brazil, when a silo containing soybeans collapsed.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Supreme Court ruled today that a legal immigrant is not subject to mandatory deportation after being convicted of possessing a small amount of marijuana.

(Barbados Nation) – Rihanna is first artist in the 20-year history of Billboard’s Nielsen BDS-based Pop Songs radio airplay chart to tally ten Number Ones, as “Stay”, featuring Mikky Ekko, rises.

AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan believes local government elections are possible this year and has urged the fast-tracking of the examination of four crucial bills so that elections could be held by November.

After engineering the cut of the $1.25 billion provision from the national budget for the specialty hospital, the AFC is calling for the contract for the construction to be retendered, while the government is uncertain about the project’s future.

Speaker of the National Assembly Raphael Trotman says he may not be able to make a ruling on the legality of the proposed budget cuts until tomorrow.

BOSTON (Reuters) – Boston Police are confirming 2 dead, and 23 injured after explosions at the Boston Marathon  as runners crossed the finish line today.

The meeting between government and the opposition at the Office of the President today yielded little else but justifications on the government’s part as to why it cannot accept the proposals by the opposition to prevent the budget cuts from going ahead.

A South Ruimveldt man was shot dead late last night in what investigators are treating as a robbery/murder, Crime Chief Seelall Persaud this morning confirmed.

Two pilots have died after their plane crashed into a house at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara.

Former government minister Reepu Daman Persaud was cremated today following ceremonies at Freedom House and the Guyana National Convention Centre at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.

Pall bearers, including family and close relatives of the late Reepu Daman Persaud bearing his casket at the Guyana National Convention Centre at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara (ECD) where a funeral service was held today before his body was cremated at the Good Hope Cremation Site, ECD.

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Actress Halle Berry is pregnant with her second child, her first with fiance Olivier Martinez, representatives for Berry said on Friday.