(Trinidad Express) As the Caribbean Community (Caricom) pushes ahead with its target of reducing its US$5 billion food import bill by 25 per cent by 2025, President of Suriname Chandrikapersad Santokhi yesterday announced that his country will make land available for agricultural production, fostering partnerships between Surinamese and other Caribbean producers and processors.
MOGADISHU, (Reuters) – At least 12 people have been killed in Somalia’s capital Mogadishu after al Qaeda-linked militants attacked a hotel, seizing hostages that authorities were battling to free nearly 20 hours later, an intelligence officer said today.
As he awaits a response from President Irfaan Ali on his request for witness protection, Police Sergeant Dion Bascom has been asked by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to report “immediately” for duty.
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) on Friday freed Jarvis Small of the murder of 16-year-old daughter Neesa Gopaul, while commuting the sentence of her mother to 25 years behind bars for the gruesome killing.
Andrew Newyear, one of the bandits who was shot by the police after carrying out a series of robberies on Thursday morning, has succumbed at a city hospital.
With the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) signalling that it will be ready for Local Govern-ment Elections (LGE) by the end of November, the government yesterday confirmed that it will move to hold the polls immediately after a formal notification, by which time proposed reforms should be enacted.
Prime Minister of Barbados Mia Mottley on Friday urged CARICOM to act with urgency to bring the region to a state where it can sustainably feed itself, while noting that within the current climate “food and water are the new oil”.
The family of slain gold dealer Ricardo Fagundes believes the claims made by Police Sergeant Dion Bascom about a cover-up in the investigation of his murder and is calling on the relevant authorities to stop hiding the “truth”.
While agreeing that the allegations made by policeman Dion Bascom must be looked into, Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that the ruling People’s Progressive Party (PPP) would not condone illegalities by anyone.
Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago Dr Keith Rowley has acknowledged that while non-tariff trade barriers are meant to protect the interest of individual countries they, more than often, are “artificial” and hinder production in a single market economy.
LUANDA, (Reuters) – Angolans head to the polls next week in what is likely to be a tense standoff between a ruling party in power for nearly five decades and an opposition with growing appeal to a frustrated, impoverished youth.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – A Japanese court yesterday ruled that only the child born before a trans woman went through her surgical and legal transition could be recognised legally as her child, while the child born after her transition cannot be, media said.
Massy Group Guyana on Friday launched a grocery voucher programme to benefit 100 women in domestic violence situations.
Santiago,(Reuters) – Chilean legislators will begin random drug testing in the next few days after a proposal making it compulsory was approved last month, despite criticism from some lawmakers.
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Ministry of Natural Resources (MNR) have announced that they would continue to lobby for the unbundling of contracts and examine a 30- day payment period for small and medium-sized local operators in the oil sector.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Russia reported fresh Ukrainian drone attacks last evening, a day after explosions erupted near military bases in Russian-held areas of Ukraine and Russia itself, apparent displays of Kyiv’s growing ability to pummel Moscow’s assets far from front lines.
A 20-year-old man was shot to one of his lips in the wee hours of Thursday morning, after a heated argument with another man over a woman.
(Reuters) – Nicaragua’s Rolando Alvarez, Bishop of Matagalpa and one of the most influential leaders of the country’s Catholic Church, is under house arrest in the capital Managua after he was removed from the northern diocese in a pre-dawn raid, police said yesterday.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican former attorney general Jesus Murillo has been arrested on charges of forced disappearance, torture and obstruction of justice in the 2014 disappearance of 43 students, Mexican officials said yesterday.
The Ministry of Health has recorded 44 new cases of COVID-19 from 373 more tests that have been conducted.
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