Cheryl Springer

(Trinidad Guardian) REDJet’s plans to fly from T&T on May 8 are in trouble.

The partly nude body of a 68-year-old woman was yesterday afternoon discovered with her throat slit, in a bedroom in her home.

A clothes vendor was this morning denied bail by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, when he appeared before her charged with attempted murder and robbery under arms.

A La Grange woman is dead after a Route 42 minibus collided with the motorcycle she was driving.

Operations at the recently opened Good Hope/Supenaam stelling on the Essequibo Coast were this afternoon halted after part of the structure collapsed under the weight of a vehicle.

A man was fined $35 million and jailed for four years while his alleged accomplice was refused bail, when they appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton today charged with possession of and trafficking in over 50 pounds of cocaine.

Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) ranks last evening seized over 50 pounds of cocaine in Corriverton, Berbice and arrested two persons.

Four armed bandits early this morning invaded the Sophia home of an elderly couple.

Vernon Paddy, the 47-year-old Guyanese man who had pleaded guilty to a vicious attack on his wife with a 14-inch hammer in May of last year, was sentenced to eight years in prison by Justice Indra Hariprashad-Charles in a British Virgin Island (BVI) court.

(Jamaica Observer) Adding to the gathering storm of accusations about their poor treatment of visitors, Barbadian authorities have again allegedly beaten and kicked three more Jamaicans out of that eastern Caribbean island.

Six gunmen raided the Guyana Stockfeeds office at Farm, East Bank Demerara this afternoon after pretending to be customers.

Director of the Government Information Agency (GINA) Neaz Subhan collapsed while at work this morning.

Masked gunmen escaped with millions in cash and gold after raiding a house at Industry, East Coast Demerara.

Ranks from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) on Saturday afternoon intercepted a small parcel, at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, destined for Canada with 1.3 kilos of cocaine.

A family of three is homeless and millions of dollars are lost in a fire this morning, suspected to be electrical in origin, which destroyed a two-storey building that also housed a store at Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara.

(Cricinfo) Ricky Ponting has stepped down as Australia’s captain in Tests and ODIs following their quarter-final exit from the World Cup but will be available for selection as a batsman in both formats.

A licensed firearm holder shot and wounded a knife-welding burglar in his yard at Lot 25 Bagotstown early this morning.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Plutonium found in soil at the crippled Fukushima nuclear complex heightened alarm over Japan’s lengthy battle to contain the world’s worst atomic crisis in 25 years.

TOKYO (Reuters) – Highly radioactive water has leaked from a reactor at Japan’s crippled nuclear complex, the plant’s operator said today, while environmental group Greenpeace said it had detected high levels of radiation outside an exclusion zone.

(Go Jamaica) The Government has indicated that it will be raising with Caricom the issue of the alleged mistreatment of a Jamaican woman by Barbados customs and immigration officials.