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Guyana’s President, Donald Ramotar on Monday suspend the Parliament, dashing the opposition’s hopes of passing a no-confidence motion in his administration and paving the way for fresh elections in 90 days. The President’s decision came six days after he had warned that he would have either suspend Parliament or dissolve it and make way for fresh elections if the combined ...

President Donald Ramotar on Monday kept to his much anticipated promise and prorogued the Parliament but the 65-seat National Assembly could very well still meet later in the afternoon because the Speaker Raphael Trotman has not received a copy of the Official Gazette of the proclamation. Trotman told Caribbean News Desk that he was not ruling out going ahead with ...

Five persons have been arrested and 50 kilogrammes of cocaine seized by Antigua and Barbuda drug agents, the Office of National Drug and Money Laundering Control Policy said at the weekend. The ONDCP said in a statement that the interdiction was made in the Mc Kinnons area of Antigua last Friday. The cocaine, which fetches a wholesale value of over ...

Bahamas Faith Ministries leader, Dr Myles Munroe was among nine passengers on board a plane that crashed in Grand Bahama this afternoon, Tribune242 reported Sunday night. The Department of Civil Aviation reported that the plane which crashed on Grand Bahama was a Lear 36 executive jet which departed the Lynden Pindling International Airport (LPIA) for the Grand Bahama International Airport. ...

Even as President Donald Ramotar has made up his mind to suspend Guyana’s Parliament to avert the passage of a no-confidence motion, Opposition Leader David Granger on Sunday appeared to shut the door to future talks to end a political stalemate on several issues. Speaking with the media after the Remembrance Day Wreath Laying Service at the Cenotaph in Georgetown, ...

In the first strongest hint ever, a government minister on Saturday announced that President Donald Ramotar is expected to suspend the Parliament on Monday to avert debate on an opposition-sponsored no-confidence motion. The state-owned Government Information Agency (GINA) quoted Minister of Natural Resources and the Environment Robert Persaud as saying that the Guyanese leader would press the “reset button” in ...

London, Nov 7 (EFE).- The former editor of the defunct British tabloid News of the World, Ian Edmondson, was sentenced Friday by a British court to eight months in prison for his role in the phone hacking scandal that put his former paper out of business.Edmondson, 45, admitted to the Central Criminal Court of England and Wales, also known as ...

Buenos Aires, Nov 7 (EFE).- An Argentine judge has put on trial journalist German Sasso, the editor of a media outlet in Bahia Blanca, for not revealing his sources in case of a media entrepreneur allegedly involved in drug trafficking in the country.In several audio recordings released by Sasso’s outlet, La Brujula 24, media entreprenuer Juan Suris can be heard ...

Venezuelan state-owned oil giant PDVSA said Thursday it plans to maintain oil production at approximately 3 million barrels per day in 2015, more than 2.5 million bpd of which is to be exported. “Our plan in 2015 is to maintain our production and develop our ability to react to any market scenario,” PDVSA President Eulogio Del Pino said during the ...

Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa has defended his government’s plan to extract oil from the Yasuni National Park in the Amazon, and said that it will affect less than 200 hectares (494 acres) of the nearly 1 million hectares (2.5 million acres) of the natural reserve of high biodiversity. According to the latest calculations, the surface that may be affected by ...