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Mexican congress votes to fine people who block beach access

Published:Thursday | October 1, 2020 | 9:28 AM

MEXICO CITY (AP) — Mexico’s Senate has voted to levy fines of up to $47,000 against hotels, restaurants, or other property owners who restrict access to the country’s beaches. The bill approved unanimously Tuesday also requires...

Mottley wants regional countries to step up to the plate

Published:Thursday | October 1, 2020 | 12:08 AM

BRIDGETOWN (CMC): Barbados on Wednesday called on Caribbean countries to redouble efforts at strengthening their existing relations so as to survive in a changing global environment. Prime Minister Mia Mottley, addressing the virtual 50th annual...

World reacts with surprise, worry to Biden-Trump debate

Published:Thursday | October 1, 2020 | 12:06 AM

GENEVA (AP): Head-scratching perplexity about US democracy in Australia and Denmark. Disdain for “chaos” and “insults” between America’s presidential contenders in a Chinese Communist Party tabloid. A European market watcher’s warning of a “...

Voting lawsuits pile up across US as election approaches

Published:Wednesday | September 30, 2020 | 2:56 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — They’ve been fighting in Wisconsin and Pennsylvania over the cutoff date for counting mailed ballots, and in North Carolina over witness requirements. Ohio is grappling with drop boxes for ballots as Texas faces a...

Britain renews sweeping powers to curb coronavirus

Published:Wednesday | September 30, 2020 | 1:18 PM

LONDON — British lawmakers have renewed the government’s sweeping powers to impose emergency restrictions to curb the coronavirus pandemic, although many legislators criticised the way Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s Conservative...

Hot, dry conditions stoke devastating California wildfires

Published:Wednesday | September 30, 2020 | 11:16 AM

SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Flames devoured swaths of brush and trees in Northern California on Wednesday amid unseasonably hot and dry weather. High winds that spread new fires this week in the Napa and Sonoma wine country and in a far northern...

Judge blocks big fee hikes for US citizenship, other benefits

Published:Wednesday | September 30, 2020 | 9:24 AM

SAN DIEGO (AP) — A federal judge on Tuesday halted major fee increases for citizenship and other immigration benefits three days before they were to take effect, saying the last two chiefs of the Homeland Security Department were likely...

Twitter temporarily suspends Hungarian government’s account

Published:Wednesday | September 30, 2020 | 9:17 AM

BUDAPEST, Hungary (AP) — The Hungarian government says its official Twitter account was temporarily suspended and then restored without explanation. Government spokesman Zoltan Kovacs said Wednesday in a Facebook post that “we have...

Worldwide grief - Death toll from coronavirus eclipses one million

Published:Wednesday | September 30, 2020 | 12:09 AM

NEW DELHI (AP): The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus has eclipsed one million, nine months into a crisis that has devastated the global economy, tested world leaders’ resolve, pitted science against politics and forced multitudes to change...

Man charged after caught having sex with corpse

Published:Wednesday | September 30, 2020 | 12:08 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): A 50-year-old man is due to appear in court, virtually, next Tuesday, after he was caught having sex with a 56-year-old woman who had died from COVID-19. Police said that the man from Train Line, Port Kaituma, North West District...

Mother of two beheaded by relative

Published:Wednesday | September 30, 2020 | 12:07 AM

PORT OF SPAIN (CMC): Police have detained the relative of a woman who was killed and her head severed on Tuesday. The authorities said that Reshma Kanchan, a mother of two, was chopped multiple times and her head cut off. The incident occurred in...

COVID-19 cases rising among US children as schools reopen

Published:Tuesday | September 29, 2020 | 2:39 PM

After preying heavily on the elderly in the spring, the coronavirus is increasingly infecting American children and teens in a trend authorities say appears driven by school reopenings and the resumption of sports, playdates and other activities....

Negotiators hunker down as Brexit talks hit final weeks

Published:Tuesday | September 29, 2020 | 1:06 PM

BRUSSELS (AP) — Amid the din of diplomatic diatribes, European Union and British negotiators hunkered down Tuesday to seek compromises on everything from fishing rights to business competition rules, in a belated attempt to broker a...

Child poverty likely to increase in EU amid coronavirus pandemic

Published:Tuesday | September 29, 2020 | 11:32 AM

BRUSSELS (AP) — Child poverty has reached an “unacceptable” level across the European Union, the world’s largest trading bloc, a situation likely to worsen during the coronavirus pandemic, the EU’s external auditor...

Worldwide death toll from coronavirus eclipses 1 million

Published:Tuesday | September 29, 2020 | 9:34 AM

NEW DELHI (AP) — The worldwide death toll from the coronavirus has eclipsed one million, nine months into a crisis that has devastated the global economy, tested world leaders’ resolve, pitted science against politics and forced...

Trump’s tax revelation could tarnish image that fuelled rise

Published:Tuesday | September 29, 2020 | 12:09 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): The bombshell revelations that President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for office, and paid no income taxes at all in many others, threaten to undercut a pillar of his appeal among blue-collar...

Beijing fires back at US over environment, South China Sea

Published:Tuesday | September 29, 2020 | 12:09 AM

BEIJING (AP): US-China friction flared again on Monday, with Beijing firing back at accusations by Washington that it is a leading cause of global environmental damage and has reneged on its promise not to militarise the South China Sea. A document...

Chief elections officer arrested

Published:Tuesday | September 29, 2020 | 12:07 AM

GEORGETOWN (CMC): Guyana’s Chief Elections Officer, Keith Lowenfield, was arrested on Saturday as part of an ongoing probe into alleged electoral fraud at the March 2 general and regional elections. Investigators said that the arrest of the chief...

US mother, daughter get life in slayings of 5 relatives

Published:Monday | September 28, 2020 | 4:47 PM

DOYLESTOWN, Pennsylvania (AP) — A mother and her adult daughter were sentenced Monday to life in prison in the slayings of five close relatives, including three children, outside Philadelphia last year. Shana Decree, 47, and Dominique Decree...

WHO, partners roll out faster COVID tests for poorer nations

Published:Monday | September 28, 2020 | 2:52 PM

GENEVA (AP) — The World Health Organization announced Monday that it and leading partners have agreed to a plan to roll out 120 million rapid-diagnostic tests for the coronavirus to help lower- and middle-income countries make up ground in a...

US shipping millions of coronavirus tests in push to reopen schools

Published:Monday | September 28, 2020 | 12:55 PM

WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump planned to announce Monday that the federal government will begin distributing millions of rapid coronavirus tests to states this week and urging governors to use them to reopen schools for students in...

India’s confirmed coronavirus tally reaches 6 million cases

Published:Monday | September 28, 2020 | 12:04 PM

NEW DELHI (AP) — India’s confirmed coronavirus tally reached 6 million on Monday, keeping the country second to the United States in number of reported cases. The Health Ministry reported 82,170 new coronavirus cases in the past 24...

NY Times: Trump paid $750 in US income taxes in 2016 and 2017

Published:Monday | September 28, 2020 | 9:24 AM

President Donald Trump paid just $750 in federal income taxes the year he ran for president and in his first year in the White House, according to a report in The New York Times. Trump, who has fiercely guarded his tax filings and is the only...

Mexico coronavirus data may not be available for years

Published:Monday | September 28, 2020 | 9:15 AM

Mexico City — Mexico’s top coronavirus official said Sunday that definitive data on the country’s death toll from COVID-19 won’t be available for “a couple of years.” The statement by Assistant Health Secretary...

Military suicides spike by almost 20 per cent in COVID-19 era

Published:Monday | September 28, 2020 | 12:07 AM

WASHINGTON (AP): Military suicides have increased by as much as 20 per cent this year compared to the corresponding period in 2019, and some incidents of violent behaviour have spiked as service members struggle under COVID-19, war-zone...

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