UVALDE, Texas, (Reuters) – Frantic children called 911 at least half a dozen times from the Texas classrooms where a massacre was unfolding, pleading for police to intervene, as some 20 officers waited in the hallway nearly an hour before entering and killing the gunman, authorities said yesterday.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – A bloc of leftist countries meeting in Havana yesterday condemned the exclusion of certain nations from next month’s Summit of the Americas, after the United States said that it only wanted the leaders of governments that respect democracy to attend.
Paishnarine ‘Richie’ Hansraj and Justin Teixeira, the two men who were discovered dead in a vehicle in the Marriott Hotel parking lot last month, died after ingesting sodium cyanide, according to Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn.
KYIV/POPASNA, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Ukraine said yesterday its forces may need to retreat from their last pocket of resistance in Luhansk to avoid being captured by Russian troops pressing an advance in the east that has shifted the momentum of the three-month-old war.
(Trinidad Guardian) The ANSA McAL Group of Companies has completed the acquisition of the Monte Plata Solar Farm in the Dominican Republic.
A man is now in custody after he was arrested with a quantity of suspected cocaine during a raid of a Charlotte Street, Bourda yard.
DUBAI/ATHENS, (Reuters) – Iranian forces seized two Greek tankers in the Gulf yesterday, shortly after Tehran warned it would take “punitive action” against Athens over the confiscation of Iranian oil by the United States from a tanker held off the Greek coast.
The Ministry of Health yesterday confirmed 29 new cases of the novel Coronavirus after the results of 651 more tests.
WASHINGTON/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Treasury Department yesterday renewed a license to oil producer Chevron Corp CVX.N
Police in Regional Division #3 are investigating the death of a 41-year-old female teacher whose body was found in a state of decomposition at her home at Crane, West Coast Demerara around 17:00 hrs this afternoon.
The Government Analyst – Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) is alerting consumers that frozen JR Chicken Burger Patties are being recalled due to contamination with Listeria monocytogenes and Salmonella spp.
The contractor executing works on the Cane Grove access road in Region Four has been given a two-week deadline for completion of the project, a release from the Ministry of Public Works said today.
UVALDE, Texas, (Reuters) – Police made the “wrong decision” in waiting nearly an hour for additional officers before breaching the classroom where a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers, a law enforcement official said today, after days of mounting questions about the law enforcement response.
Free transportation for school children and old -age pensioners from Rosignol, Region Five to New Amsterdam, Region Six has been restored.
The police today said they investigating the murder of `D’ Field Sophia resident, 43-year-old Collin McPherson last night.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil is preparing to receive a record number of international observers for its October election, according to electoral authorities and participating organizations, amid a polarized presidential race in which President Jair Bolsonaro has questioned the reliability of electronic voting machines.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India ordered the transfer of a bureaucrat couple to opposite ends of the country today, following public outcry over a media report alleging they forced a sports stadium in Delhi to shut early in order to walk their dog.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The illicit trafficking of illegal firearms is a significant challenge for the Caribbean region, noted Dr Horace Chang, chairman of the CARICOM Council for National Security and Law Enforcement (CONSLE) and Jamaica’s National Security Minister.
Three children died in an early morning fire yesterday which was said to be electrical in nature.
Leader of the Opposition Aubrey Norton has reported that his recent outreach to communities in Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) has revealed that the government is neglecting areas it deems to be Opposition-aligned.
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