(Reuters) – Three women of unknown origin were found dead, presumably murdered, on Wednesday on the Greek side of the river border between Turkey and Greece, police sources said, an area known for illegal migrant crossings.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The trial of O’Brian and O’Neil Walters, the brothers charged with the murder of 22-year-old Kahni Erskine who was fatally shot at a gas station on September 22, 2016, started its second day in the St James Circuit Court on Wednesday.
A 62-year-old Letter Kenny Village, Corentyne woman was beaten and robbed when a lone intruder pounced on her in a pre-dawn attack on Tuesday.
(Reuters) – Pope Francis yesterday compared having an abortion to “hiring a “hit man” to eliminate a problematic person, in comments sure to be welcomed by conservative Catholics who have accused the pontiff of not speaking out enough on “cultural war” issues.
An autopsy yesterday confirmed that Osafo Glasgow, the man who was discovered dead at Loo Creek, Soesdyke-Linden Highway on Sunday morning, died as a result of multiple injuries consistent with a vehicular accident.
(Reuters) – The death toll from floods across much of central and southern Nigeria has reached 199, the national disaster agency said on Wednesday, almost doubling the number of people killed from three weeks earlier.
(Reuters) – Parkland Fuel Corp (PKI.TO), a Canada-based marketer of petroleum products, said yesterday it would buy a 75 percent stake in privately held SOL Investments Ltd for C$1.57 billion (US$1.21 billion), to expand further in the U.S.
A man was yesterday charged and remanded to prison over the alleged possession of marijuana, which was found in a yard where he works.
(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) SOUTHERN Division Sup Yussuf Gaffar yesterday boasted of a high number of seizures of guns and a reduction in murders in his division between January and September this year, as compared to last year for the same period.
(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY) THE Prime Minister rejected charges that he has a Florida bank account as a deliberate plot to defame him by “spurious and wholly untrue allegations.”
(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) FOUR boys charged with assaulting their schoolmate at the Princes Town West Secondary School are to keep away from the 14-year-old during the course of the court matter.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Government has divested the operation of the Norman Manley International Airport (NMIA) to Mexican entity, Grupo Aeroportuario del Pacifico S.A.B.
PANAMA CITY, Fla., (Reuters) – Extremely powerful Hurricane Michael crashed into Florida’s northwestern Panhandle coast today, flooding towns and ripping up trees with 155 mile per hour (249 kph) winds and the potential for a devastating storm surge.
A Cromarty man is now a patient at the Anamayah Hospital in Berbice after he was shot to the face when bandits invaded his father’s grocery store on Tuesday evening.
A woman lost her life this morning along the Nigg Public Road, in Berbice, this morning, after she was struck by a motorcyclist.
(TRINIDAD EXPRESS) A La Romaine man, accused of robbing three people after they were lured to an area through an online car advertisement, has been granted $300,000 approval bail.
Teachers are not in favour of government’s new wage offer of 10 per cent for 2016 and eight percent for 2018 and the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) will likely refuse the offer when representatives meet with the Ministry of Education (MoE) today, according to General Secretary Coretta McDonald.
A miner is now dead following an accident on Monday evening, when he rode his unregistered motorbike into a truck at Lethem, in Region Nine.
There are a total of 2,588 documented Venezuelan migrants in Guyana and the Ministry of the Presidency has said that the government is working to support them.
A 70-year-old woman was shot and robbed yesterday afternoon after she was attacked by two bandits at Laluni Street, Queenstown, Georgetown, shortly after visiting a city bank.
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