WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump yesterday tied a U.S. trade deal with China to humane resolution of the weeks of protests wracking Hong Kong, hours after the State Department said it was “deeply concerned” about reports of movement of Chinese paramilitary forces along the Hong Kong border.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro yesterday accused former Colombian President Alvaro Uribe of plotting to assassinate him in cohorts with Colombia’s U.S.
A 66-year-old pensioner is presently in police custody after he was nabbed on his birthday with a quantity of cocaine concealed in his shoes at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.
Two residents of Rasville Housing Scheme, who were accused of stealing almost $300,000 in articles from a house they allegedly broke into, were yesterday granted their pre-trial liberty after they denied the allegation.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday accepted a watchdog’s report that he breached ethics rules by trying to influence a corporate legal case but refused to apologize, saying he had been trying to defend jobs.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s supreme court ordered the health ministry yesterday to issue regulation within six months on medical marijuana use, saying its failure to do so after legalization in 2017 had put rights at risk for patients, including children.
A 20-year-old man accused of robbing a woman of her personal items at knifepoint, was yesterday remanded to prison after a city magistrate heard that the recently convicted youth had failed to perform his community service.
BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Poor harvests and prolonged drought are driving rural families in parts of Central America from their homes to seek better opportunities in their own or neighbouring countries and in the United States, the United Nations said yesterday.
A miner appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday, charged with assaulting his drinking partner, and was granted bail after denying the charges.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s opposition Labour Party has urged rebel lawmakers in the ruling Conservatives to help block a no-deal Brexit by bringing down Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s administration and allowing its leader Jeremy Corbyn to form a caretaker government.
HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong braced yesterday for more mass demonstrations through the weekend, with the weeks-long crisis escalating after pro-democracy protests forced the cancellation of nearly 1,000 flights this week and world leaders urging calm.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – Argentine President Mauricio Macri yesterday unveiled a package of welfare subsidies and tax cuts for lower-income workers to lessen the pain of an economic crisis months before elections, but his announcement failed to halt the peso currency’s collapse.
First Lady, Sandra Granger, on Tuesday urged the young people of Cuyuni-Mazaruni (Region Seven) to take Information and Communication Technology (ICT) seriously and to utilise it as a tool for developing the region.
LIMA, (Reuters) – A Peruvian court ordered the arrest of the indigenous governor of a mineral-rich southern region after sentencing him to six years in prison on Wednesday for leading 2011 deadly protests against a Canadian open-pit silver project.
Riana Toney of the Anna Regina Secondary School was this afternoon unveiled as the top performer at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Examination Certificate exams with 19 Grade Ones.