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Three funeral workers fired over Maradona coffin photos

Published:Friday | November 27, 2020 | 2:38 PM

BUENOS AIRES, Argentina (AP) — Three funeral workers have been fired for posing for photos alongside the body of soccer star Diego Maradona shortly before his funeral. The images distributed across social media created outrage, even death...

Appeals court rejects Trump challenge of Pennsylvania race

Published:Friday | November 27, 2020 | 2:27 PM

PHILADELPHIA (AP) — President Donald Trump’s legal team suffered yet another defeat in court Friday as a federal appeals court in Philadelphia roundly rejected the campaign’s latest effort to challenge the state’s election...

Families of six Americans convicted in Venezuela cry foul

Published:Friday | November 27, 2020 | 10:20 AM

CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — Hopes of families for a quick release for six American oil executives detained in Venezuela for three years over an alleged corruption scheme have evaporated, with a judge finding them all guilty and quickly...

Caribbean nationals urged to avoid travel, large gatherings during holidays

Published:Friday | November 27, 2020 | 12:29 AM

WASHINGTON, CMC The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) is appealing to Caribbean and other nationals to avoid travel and large gathering during the holidays. On Wednesday, PAHO said that holiday season gatherings and travel involve risks...

Opposition leader resigns – replacement not yet announced

Published:Friday | November 27, 2020 | 12:28 AM

ST GEORGE’S (CMC): The newly elected leader of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Franka Bernardine, has resigned. Bernardine, who was elected to lead the party on November 3, attributed her decision to medical reasons. “It is...

Former education minister arrested and charged

Published:Friday | November 27, 2020 | 12:26 AM

ST JOHN’S (CMC): Information Minister Melford Nicholson yesterday announced that Michael Browne, 44 – the legislator who resigned as education minister on Wednesday – has been arrested and charged. The information minister did not state the nature...

Letter from jail: ‘Give me freedom’

Published:Friday | November 27, 2020 | 12:25 AM

CARACAS (AP): A US oil executive jailed for three years in Venezuela said all he hopes for is a fair trial so that he can walk free with his name cleared and go home to his family in the United States. In a letter from prison provided exclusively...

Published:Friday | November 27, 2020 | 12:24 AM

Vivian Zayas can’t keep herself from scrolling through photos of last Thanksgiving, when her mother stood at the stove to make a big pot of rice and beans and then took a seat at the edge of the table. That was before anyone had heard of COVID-19...

Gov’t approved transfer of 3 Iranians as Australian freed

Published:Friday | November 27, 2020 | 12:09 AM

BANGKOK (AP): Thailand said yesterday it transferred three Iranians involved in a botched 2012 bomb plot back to Tehran as Iran released an Australian academic who wh0 had been imprisoned for more than two years on spying charges. While Thai...

Paris police suspended for beating Black man

Published:Friday | November 27, 2020 | 12:08 AM

PARIS (AP): A Black man beaten up by several French police officers said he is seeking justice after the publication of videos showing officers repeatedly punching him, using a truncheon and tear gas against him for no apparent reason. French...

US will appeal order barring expulsions of migrant children

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2020 | 5:03 PM

HOUSTON (AP) — The United States government on Wednesday appealed a judge’s order barring the expulsions of immigrant children who crossed the border alone, a policy enacted during the coronavirus pandemic to deny the children...

High court blocks NY coronavirus limits on houses of worship

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2020 | 4:28 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — With coronavirus cases surging again nationwide, the Supreme Court barred New York from enforcing certain limits on attendance at churches and synagogues in areas designated as hard hit by the virus. The justices split...

Some US schools struggle to stay open as quarantines sideline staff

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2020 | 1:44 PM

COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — The infection of a single cafeteria worker was all it took to close classrooms in the small Lowellville school district in northeastern Ohio, forcing at least two weeks of remote learning. Not only did the worker who...

Mexico moves to stem unauthorised sharing of sexual images

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2020 | 1:34 PM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Activist Olimpia Coral went through an inferno in 2013, when an ex-boyfriend posted sexual images that made the rounds in her conservative town in Mexico. Things got so bad — the shaming, the Internet bullying...

World Bank provides US$7.5M to support Guyana’s COVID-19 response

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2020 | 10:18 AM

WASHINGTON, CMC – The World Bank on Wednesday approved US$7.5 million for Guyana’s COVID-19 Emergency Response Project to support the country’s fight against the pandemic and to strengthen its health system. “The...

EU fines drug makers for keeping cheap medicine off market

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2020 | 9:44 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union has fined two pharmaceutical companies for colluding to keep a cheap alternative to a sleep disorder medicine off the market for their profit and at the expense of patients. EU antitrust commissioner,...

We are under assault - Rowley - UNHRO concerned about Trinidad’s ‘deportation’ of Venezuelan children

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2020 | 12:11 AM

GENEVA (CMC): The United Nations Rights Office (UNHRO) Wednesday said it remained “deeply concerned” at the decision of the Trinidad and Tobago government to “deport” 16 Venezuelan children even as the government there maintained that the “refugee...

Leading Saudi women’s activist referred to terrorism court

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2020 | 12:09 AM

DUBAI (AP): A leading Saudi women’s rights activist who’s been imprisoned for two and a half years and drawn attention to the kingdom’s hard limits on dissent will be tried by a court established to oversee terrorism cases, her family said...

Bus-truck collision leaves 40 dead

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2020 | 12:09 AM

RIO DE JANEIRO (AP): A bus carrying employees of a textile company and a truck collided on a highway in Brazil’s Sao Paulo state early Wednesday, killing 40 people, officials said. Rescuers were helping the wounded and passengers caught in the...

US citizens charged for violating COVID-19 regulation

Published:Thursday | November 26, 2020 | 12:08 AM

ST GEORGE’S (CMC): Two United States citizens were on Wednesday fined EC$5,000 each after they were found guilty of breaching the coronavirus (COVID-19) regulations. A statement from the Royal Grenada Police Force said that Dr Tim McKinney and his...

Trump pardons former national security adviser, takes aim at Russia probe

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2020 | 4:43 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump pardoned former national security adviser Michael Flynn on Wednesday, taking direct aim in the final days of his administration at a Russia investigation that he has long insisted was motivated by...

Defying warnings, millions in the US travel for Thanksgiving

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2020 | 2:32 PM

Millions of Americans took to the skies and the highways for Thanksgiving at the risk of pouring gasoline on the coronavirus fire, disregarding increasingly dire warnings that they stay home and limit their holiday gatherings to members of their...

Thousands without heating, power in Russia after ice storm

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2020 | 1:35 PM

MOSCOW (AP) — Thousands of people in Russia’s Far East region of Primorye remained without heating or electricity on Wednesday, as local authorities and emergency services wrestled with the consequences of an unprecedented ice storm...

Britain cuts overseas aid after worst recession in over 300 years

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2020 | 1:23 PM

LONDON (AP) — The British government faced fury Wednesday over its decision to ditch its long-standing target for overseas aid in the wake of what it described as the deepest recession in over three centuries. In a statement to lawmakers,...

EU says first coronavirus vaccinations possible by Christmas

Published:Wednesday | November 25, 2020 | 9:55 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — A top European Union official said Wednesday that the first citizens in the 27 nation bloc could be vaccinated against the coronavirus by Christmas, but she warned that member countries must urgently prepare their logistical...

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