ATLANTA (AP) — Democrats won both Georgia Senate seats — and with them, the U.S. Senate majority — as final votes were counted Wednesday, serving President Donald Trump a stunning defeat in his last days in office while dramatically improving the fate of President-elect Joe Biden’s progressive agenda. Jon Ossoff and Raphael Warnock, Democratic challengers who represented the diversity of their party’s evolving coalition, defeated Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler two months after Biden became the first Democratic presidential candidate to carry the state since 1992. Warnock, who served as pastor for the same Atlanta church where civil rights…
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At least two explosive devices were found Wednesday in Washington, DC, according to reports, as supporters of President Trump stormed the US Capitol building in a violent attempt to derail the certification of the 2020 presidential election. One bomb was found at the Beltway headquarters of the Republican National Committee, the New York Times reported, citing sources briefed on the matter. The report also said a suspicious package was being investigated at Democratic National Committee headquarters, though that package was not immediately determined to be an explosive. NBC News additionally reported that at least one other device was found on…
WASHINGTON (AP) — Angry supporters of President Donald Trump stormed the U.S. Capitol on Wednesday in a chaotic protest aimed at thwarting a peaceful transfer of power, forcing lawmakers to be rushed from the building and interrupting challenges to Joe Biden’s Electoral College victory. Trump issued a restrained call for peace well after the melee was underway but did not urge supporters to disperse. Earlier he had egged them on to march to Capitol Hill. Wednesday’s ordinarily mundane procedure of Congress certifying a new president was always going to be extraordinary, with Republican supporters of Trump vowing to protest results…
St. Vincent and the Grenadines today confirmed sixteen (16) new COVID-19 cases. Five (5) non-national adult travelers arrived from the USA and the UK between December 26th and January 3rd with negative PCR tests. Subsequent testing during the quarantine period revealed positive PCR results. These travelers remain isolated until cleared by two (2) negative results. Eleven (11) adult nationals without a recent travel history have tested positive for COVID-19, bringing the total to twenty-eight (28). Ten (10) can be linked to the previously identified positive cases. The eleventh (11th) is being investigated. Contact tracing, linking and testing related to all…
The Minister, Permanent Secretary, Chief Medical Officer and two members of the administrative staff of the Ministry of Health, Wellness and the Environment have been advised, out of an abundance of caution, to quarantine for a period of five (5) days ending Saturday January 9, 2021. This advice is based on contact tracing initiated during the evening of Tuesday January 5, after the receipt of a positive COVID-19 PCR result by a relative of a MOHWE staff member. The Minister and the four officers of the MOHWE, having been in close contact with the positive individual six (6) days previously,…
WASHINGTON, United States (AFP) — The United States broke its own record for the number of daily deaths from COVID-19 yet again Tuesday, recording 3,936 fatalities in 24 hours, according to a tally kept by Johns Hopkins University. The worst-hit country in the world by the pandemic also recorded 250,173 new cases in the period up until 8:30 pm Tuesday, the Baltimore-based university’s records showed. That brings the US to more than 21 million cases and 357,067 deaths in total since the start of the pandemic. The number of people hospitalised is also at its highest since the beginning of…
On 31.12.2020 Police arrested and charged Shawpiel Moore, 26 years old Labourer of Ottley Hall with the offences of Criminal Assault and Assault Bodily Harm. According to investigations, Moore allegedly assaulted a 25-year-old Unemployed of the same address by pointing a gun at her and beating her about the body with his hands, feet and a gun. He was further charged for allegedly beating a 23-year-old unemployed of Ottley Hall about her body with his hands and feet. The incidents occurred on 23.11.2020 and 27.12.2020 at Rose Place and Ottley Hall respectively. Moore appeared before the Kingstown Magistrate’s Court on 04.01.2021 and plead not guilty to the…
The Roads, Buildings and General Services Authority (BRAGSA) has completed asphalt road repairs behind the Georgetown police station. The project saw the resurfacing of 651 feet of road, along with the construction of a 35 feet Slipper drain and a 24 feet Swale drain. In addition, BRAGSA constructed a 100 feet long Box drain. The project was carried out a cost of $182, 000. It was done over a nine weeks period.
Port of Spain -Caribbean Airlines advises that its commercial service to Havana, Cuba is suspended with immediate effect until further notice. This follows correspondence from the Instituto de Aeronáutica Civil de Cuba (IACC) advising of the country’s latest protocols and restrictions re: inbound commercial flights to combat COVID-19. Persons with bookings to Cuba are asked to contact the airline’s Reservations Sales and Service Centre. Caribbean Airlines regrets any inconvenience caused and thanks its valued customers for their understanding.
Local sex industry expert Charles Lewis on Tuesday appealed to health authorities to work with the sex trade to mitigate the impact of commercial sex on the spread of the coronavirus. Declaring that sex will always sell regardless of whether there is a pandemic, recession, or any other global crisis, Lewis said that the 9 p.m. to 5 a.m. curfew now in effect until January 14, has caused some upset among sex workers, as much as it has other businesses that operate at night. Lewis, the founding leader of the Adult Industry Association, told Barbados TODAY: “Right now nobody is…