SEOUL/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – North Korea has scheduled the dismantlement of its nuclear bomb test site for sometime between May 23 and 25 in order to uphold its pledge to discontinue nuclear tests, the country’s state media reported yesterday a month ahead of a historic summit.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Immigrants from Honduras, Haiti, El Salvador and other countries who were given protected status to live in the United States should have a path to citizenship, White House Chief of Staff John Kelly told National Public Radio on Friday.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Police yesterday raided a deluxe Kuala Lumpur apartment block at which relatives of ousted Prime Minister Najib Razak had been staying as they searched for sensitive documents the new government fears may be taken out of the country, two senior police officers said.
KUALA LUMPUR, (Reuters) – Malaysian Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad announced his top cabinet picks today and barred his predecessor, Najib Razak, from going overseas, saying there was enough evidence to investigate his links to a multi-billion-dollar scandal.
Stressing that constitutional reform was still a major priority of the Alliance for Change (AFC) even though three years have elapsed without progress, Chairman Khemraj Ramjattan said that he was optimistic that the process can be completed before the 2020 Regional and General Elections.
A Corentyne man who was held in connection with the recent piracy attack off Suriname, was yesterday remanded to prison, after he was charged with committing two robberies on the sea in 2015 and 2016.
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) yesterday affirmed the acquittals of James Anthony Hyles and Mark Royden Williams, who in 2013 were found not guilty by a jury of the 2008 murders of 11 persons—including five children who were shot and killed during what has become known as the Lusignan massacre.
The motion brought by the Opposition PPP/C calling on Government to state what actions it has taken to collaborate with the Government of Suriname on Guyanese fishermen brutally attacked and some murdered by pirates in Surinamese waters on April 27th, was unanimously supported in the National Assembly last evening.
Police in St Kitts-Nevis are continuing investigations into the death of a 34-year-old Guyanese woman who was found in a house and one person has since been taken into custody.
Instead of freedom for Anthony Morrison—given that a jury for the third time around has been unable to arrive at a verdict in the case against him for the alleged murder of his reputed wife, the man now faces more time behind bars, owing to his attorney Maxwell McKay’s failure to inform the court that he had already faced two previous trials which ended in hung juries.
Although relatives are certain that the badly decomposed body which washed up on the Number 63 Beach, Corentyne, Berbice on Thursday is that of missing fisherman Gavin Outar, the police have taken samples from his older brother, in order to make a positive identification, before the body is released to relatives.
Six persons including three children are now homeless after a fire, believed to be an act of arson, yesterday morning destroyed the Enterprise, East Coast Demerara (ECD) house they were renting.
A Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) agent yesterday testified to searching the properties of two of the drug trafficking accused, following the $550M cocaine bust at Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo in May last year.
A 32-year-old mechanic was yesterday remanded to prison after being charged with two counts of armed robbery, including a $2 million East Coast Demerara (ECD) heist, for which another man was charged on Thursday.
Help is on the horizon for residents of Festival City, North Ruimveldt who are plagued with poor drainage in their community, says Mayor Patricia Chase-Green.
Steve Armstrong, the excavator operator who was charged with having an unlicensed firearm and ammunition, was yesterday sentenced to two years in prison for the charges.