Daily Archives: Dec 30, 2017

HAMILTON, Bermuda, Dec 30, CMC  — Governor John Rankin is continuing to take legal advice on giving assent to a controversial bill designed to replace same-sex marriage with “watered-down” domestic partnerships in this British Overseas Territory.

CASTRIES, St. Lucia, Dec 30, CMC -The Eastern Caribbean Collective Organisation for Music Rights (ECCO) says it is unable at this time to make any payment of royalties to its members scheduled for the final quarter of this year.

LONDON/MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian tankers have supplied fuel to North Korea on at least three occasions in recent months by transferring cargoes at sea, according to two senior Western European security sources, providing an economic lifeline to the secretive Communist state.

DUBAI (Reuters) - Anti-government protests broke out in Iran for the third day running on Saturday as separate state-sponsored rallies were staged to mark the end of unrest that shook the country in 2009, according to Iranian news agencies and state media.

Police have charged a second man in the  Charlesworth Richards Jr murder investigations.

A mother and son will be spending New Year’s Day in jail since the police have charged them with unlawful possession of a modified firearm and ammunition.

Three days after a vehicle was stolen from outside her Yorks home, Neste Cabral is thanking the public for its assistance in finding the white Lexus SUV.

This country’s acting chief medical officer, Dr. James Knight, has suggested that there is no need for concern over flu-related complications and deaths currently being recorded in the U.S.

High Priest Selah, of the Nyabinghi Theocracy Church, says the amendments to the Misuse of Drugs Act will only have a minor impact on his tribe since the new legal amount equates to “one chalice” during a religious ceremony.

Independent parliamentarian Joanne Massiah says the proposed changes to the Barbuda Land Act opens the door to Antiguans eventually owning land on the sister isle, a charge the government has not denied.