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AFC MP Trevor Williams has submitted a series of questions to Culture Minister Dr Frank Anthony about the local publishing house, Caribbean Press which are down for Parliament’s Order Paper on July 25 according to a Notice Paper.
(Barbados Nation) Police have formally charged Guyanese national, Feroze Rafikh, age 42 years, of 2nd Avenue Amity Lodge, Christ Church for the offence of murder in relation to the stabbing death of Tito Gill, which occurred on 17 July 2013.
By Johann Earle
Last evening’s rejection of a bill and debt motion by the opposition has been described by the government as the “funeral” of the ambitious US$840M Amaila Falls Hydropower Project.
GuySuCo has announced that the Skeldon factory will start processing canes on August 5, more than a week after its scheduled start, due to “extremely wet conditions” at the estate.
“We are prepared to wait until hell freezes over,” House Speaker Raphael Trotman declared, after Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud yesterday remained silent when asked to take the reins on the four local government bills brought back to the National Assembly.
By Shakisa Harvey
Almost eight years after 13-year-old Trishanna Debidayal was struck down at a pedestrian crossing on her way home from school, her mother laments the painful reality that instead of celebrating her 21st birthday today with her in the flesh, she is left to reflect on memories.
The reconstruction of the One-Mile Primary School, Linden is at a stand-still as government has not yet released the $60 million it promised for the project and other major backers have pulled out because the government was welcomed on-board.
Two cousins yesterday found themselves in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on charges of attacking each other and one of them answered a separate charge for allegedly assaulting his grandmother.
With the presentation of a generator by the Weldaad Station Management Committee (WSMC), the Weldaad Police Station is now equipped to deal with blackouts.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has said stakeholders have identified a number of criminal ‘hot spots’ and have advised the police to find an appropriate response to address the recent spike in armed robberies and other violent crime.
Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday issued a call for better security in the courtrooms and the compound of the current Georgetown Magistrates’ Court complex.
The trial of James Anthony Hyles called ‘Sally,’ and Mark Royden Williams, called ‘Smallie,’ the duo accused of the 2008 Lusignan Massacre continued yesterday before Justice Navindra Singh in the High Court with a second voir dire.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has announced that a number of police officers have been participating in training programmes overseas including on the topic of financial investigation.
Members of the New Amsterdam Constabulary recently came in for heavy criticism from Deputy Mayor Harold Debydeen, who accused them of facilitating a culture of lawlessness in the town through their lax approach to carrying out their duties.
Safraz Rahaman, who said that he was taking one gram of cannabis home to boil for his asthmatic daughter to drink, was on Tuesday fined $3,000 and ordered to do six months community service when he appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
