Tag: politics
Putin denies Gorbachev a state funeral and will stay away
Moscow – Russia president Vladimir Putin is to miss the funeral of the last Soviet leader, Mikhail Gorbachev, denying the man who failed to...
Cut back on political interference in NIS, CTUSAB says
The Congress of Trade Unions and Staff Associations of Barbados (CTUSAB) has urged government to allow the board of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS)...
Opposition MPs prepared to work with new Grenada government
St George’s – Opposition members of the Lower House of Parliament said they were prepared to work with the new government of Prime Minister...
Surinamese finance and planning minister resigns
Paramaribo – Suriname president Chan Santokhi confirmed on Thursday that Minister of Finance and Planning Armand Achaibersing resigned.
Santokhi said Achaibersing stepped aside for “a...
Kenyans anxious for news on next president
Nairobi – Kenyans crowded around radios and televisions on Thursday, increasingly anxious for news of who their next president might be, two days after...
SIDS appeal for more solutions to climate change and debt burden
St John’s – President of the United Nations General Assembly (UNGA), Abdulla Shahid appealed for a solution to the long-standing debt burden faced by...