The police today said that they received a report yesterday that on Thursday logger Cleveland Hetemeyer of Angoy’s Avenue, New Amsterdam, was shot and killed during an armed robbery about 90 miles up the Canje River, Berbice.
The Ministry of Health has a very robust anti-Tuberculosis (TB) programme and will be vigorously pursuing all reports of TB regardless of the source, according to Minister within the Health Ministry Dr.
Berbician, Dr. Rawle Farley, economist and educator who put four sons through Harvard, died yesterday at 88
According to information from his son Christopher, he passed away at Rochester General Hospital in Rochester, N.Y.
NAIROBI, (Reuters) – A police officer attached to Kenya’s provincial police shot 10 people dead at several bars in a small town northeast of Nairobi before surrendering, a police spokesman said today.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Kamla Persad-Bissessar was yesterday praised by St Lucian Prime Minister Dr Stephenson King for her quick response to rally to his countrymen’s assistance in the wake of the passage of Hurricane Tomas.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Hurricane Tomas weakened to a tropical storm today after it lashed Haiti’s crowded camps for earthquake survivors and coastal towns, triggering flooding and mudslides that killed at least seven people.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Hurricane Tomas soaked crowded Haitian earthquake survivors’ camps with overnight rain as the re-strengthened storm headed north today between Cuba and Haiti amid fears of flooding and landslides.
(Trinidad Guardian) Guyana’s President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday told a group of ANSA McAL executives that there were huge business opportunities in his country.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – All 68 people on board an Aero Caribbean plane were killed when it crashed in mountainous central Cuba yesterday after issuing an emergency call, a government website said today.
(Trinidad Guardian) Former Caribbean under-15 champion Nigel Bryan captured the junior title in the recent Cecil James Open Table Tennis Tournament, at Maloney Sports Arena.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T Soca Warriors sealed a spot in the Digicel Caribbean Cup Finals scheduled for Martinique later this month, after a 2-0 win over Guyana in their second round Group F match at the Manny Ramjohn Stadium, Marabella last night.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – A plane carrying at least 68 people crashed in central Cuba after issuing an emergency call, state-run media said today, and there were no initial reports of survivors.
CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti, (Reuters) – Angry earthquake survivors in Haiti disrupted an attempted evacuation today of a resettlement camp as Tropical Storm Tomas bore down on the poor Caribbean country already reeling from a cholera epidemic and destruction from the quake.