BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Opposition lawyers filed a new petition to Congress for the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff yesterday, seeking to unseat the unpopular leftist leader for allegedly doctoring government accounts in 2014 and into her second term.
BALLABHGARH, India, (Reuters) – Police in northern India have arrested four men over allegations that they burnt alive two low-caste children, an official said yesterday, a case that triggered a street protest and drew condemnation from an opposition leader.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – In the affluent Recoleta neighborhood of Buenos Aires, where grand 19th century buildings hark back to an era of prosperity, middle class voters fear a presidential election on Sunday will do nothing to halt Argentina’s long decline.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Vladimir Putin used a rare visit to Moscow by Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to talk up the Kremlin’s potential to help broker a political settlement to the crisis as he tried to show the West Russia has become a major player in the Middle East.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – President Nicolas Maduro’s government predicted on Tuesday that Venezuela’s inflation, already the world’s highest, would be 85 percent in 2015 and 60 percent next year.
Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo today said that nearly $500M was transferred to the National Communications Network and the Government Information Agency by the former administration without parliamentary approval.
(Trinidad Guardian) In a twisted series of events that unfolded in the Sangre Grande area last weekend, a 62-year-old retired nurse was killed after returning home from the wake of an 11-month old baby, who died from blunt force trauma to the abdomen.
A 17-year-old mother of three is Guyana’s latest maternal death.
Nikacia Allen died on Sunday, 27 days after giving birth to her third child via Caesarean Section (C-Section) at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
Marc Angoy, the man wanted for the murder of toddler Arianne Gill, yesterday surrendered to the police with his attorney and confessed to the crime hours after, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum confirmed.
In addition to increased flights between New York and Georgetown for Christmas, Dynamic International Airways yesterday promised to have an additional aircraft on standby to avoid having a repeat of last year’s flight delays and postponements.
The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) is being accused of negligence after a young mother discovered that a piece of gauze was left inside her after she delivered her first child last month.
In responding to the findings of the 2011 Guyana National Child Labour Rapid Assessment Survey, the Ministry of Social Protection has formulated a plan that includes the creation of a unit specifically to address child labour.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) issued a wanted bulletin yesterday for a suspect in the murder of a Berbice River resident who died over a week ago after a confrontation.
Rampersaud Balgoor, the pensioner who was struck down on Sunday morning during a hit and run at La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Demerara, says he believes the driver who hit him was speeding at the time.