WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is expected to announce soon that he will decertify the landmark international deal to curb Iran’s nuclear programme, a senior administration official said yesterday, in a step that potentially could cause the 2015 accord to unravel.
An East Coast Demerara family is seeking the public’s help to find their motor car after they say it was hijacked by a gunman on Wednesday evening in the vicinity of the Sheriff Street Royal Castle.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Divisions over the future of British Prime Minister Theresa May burst into the open yesterday with allies saying she should carry on and a former Conservative Party chairman claiming the support of 30 lawmakers for a plot to topple her.
The government is to table a bill at the next sitting of parliament to address the issue of the loss of farm produce through theft, according to a release yesterday from the Department of Public Information (DPI).
OSLO, (Reuters) – Norway will study ways to make its economy greener and reduce dependence on oil and gas reserves that are likely to lose value amid efforts to slow climate change, Environment Minister Vidar Helgesen said yesterday.
It is unclear when a decision will be handed down in the case brought by a group of Seafield, West Coast Berbice rice farmers, who have challenged the revocation of their land leases by President David Granger.
LAS VEGAS, (Reuters) – The U.S. gun lobby, which has seldom embraced new firearms-control measures, voiced a readiness yesterday to restrict a rifle accessory that enabled a Las Vegas gunman to strafe a crowd with bursts of sustained heavy fire as if from an automatic weapon.
A humanist approach should be taken in addressing land issues, Dr Kimani Nehusi told the tribunal investigating ancestral land matters on Monday, even as he urged that Africans be given lands approximate in size to what they would have “humanised” on the coast.
BARCELONA/MADRID, (Reuters) – Spain’s Constitutional Court yesterday ordered the suspension of Monday’s session of the regional Catalan parliament, throwing into doubt its plans to declare unilateral independence from Spain.
Arnold Rodney Castello, the 27-year-old minibus driver, who was driving when he collided with 42-year-old labourer Mahendra Dyal, resulting in his death, last Saturday, was on Monday granted bail in the sum of $750,000.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Nate killed at least 10 people in Central America yesterday as it pummeled the region with heavy rain while heading toward Mexico’s Caribbean resorts and the U.S.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – The Brazilian Congress approved yesterday legislation allowing parties and candidates to force social media outlets to immediately withdraw offensive or defamatory content by anonymous authors.
The alleged housing fraud in Essequibo, which led to the detention and subsequent dismissal of two senior housing officers is still being investigated, CH&PA Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Lelon Saul said recently.
(Trinidad Guardian) Dominica is in urgent need of heavy equipment to clear “thousands of tonnes of debris,” roadways and landslips that continue to hamper relief efforts.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Tropical Storm Nate unleashed intense rainfall across much of Central America today, leaving at least three dead in Costa Rica and several missing in neighbouring Nicaragua, according to local officials.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author of “The Remains of the Day”, won the Nobel Prize for Literature on Thursday for a run of “exquisite” novels that the award body said mixed Franz Kafka with Jane Austen.
The body of the man believed to have murdered policewoman Kenesha Sheriff Fraser has been found hanging from a tree at Number 30 Village, West Coast Berbice and her relatives are baffled.
(Trinidad Guardian) Dominica is in urgent need of heavy equipment to clear “thousands of tonnes of debris,” roadways and landslips that continue to hamper relief efforts.