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A Region Six sports officer based within Region Six’s compound was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with threatening behaviour and possession of offensive weapons that is to say two knives.
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He replaces Debretsion Gebremichael, whose immunity from prosecution was removed Thursday.
Meanwhile, Amnesty International said Thursday that scores of civilians were killed in a \"massacre\" in the Tigray region, that witnesses blamed on forces backing the local ruling party.
The \"massacre\" is the first reported incident of large-scale civilian fatalities in a week-old conflict between the regional ruling party, the Tigray People's Liberation Front (TPLF), and the government of Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed, winner of last year's Nobel Peace Prize.
\"Amnesty International can today confirm... that scores, and likely hundreds, of people were stabbed or hacked to death in Mai-Kadra (May Cadera) town in the southwest of Ethiopia's Tigray Region on the night of 9 November,\" the rights group said in a report.
Amnesty said it had \"digitally verified gruesome photographs and videos of bodies strewn across the town or being carried away on stretchers.\"
The dead \"had gaping wounds that appear to have been inflicted by sharp weapons such as knives and machetes,\" Amnesty said, citing witness accounts.
Witnesses said the attack was carried out by TPLF-aligned forces after a defeat at the hands of the Ethiopian military, though Amnesty said it \"has not been able to confirm who was responsible for the killings\".
It nonetheless called on TPLF commanders and officials to \"make clear to their forces and their supporters that deliberate attacks on civilians are absolutely prohibited and constitute war crimes\".
Abiy ordered military operations in Tigray on November 4, saying they were prompted by a TPLF attack on federal military camps -- a claim the party denies.
The region has been under a communications blackout ever since, making it difficult to verify competing claims on the ground.
Abiy said Thursday his army had made major gains in western Tigray.
Thousands of Ethiopians have fled across the border into neighboring Sudan, and the UN is sounding the alarm about a humanitarian crisis in Tigray.
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A Blairmont Estate cane cutter died yesterday morning after his 18- year-old son allegedly hurled a cutlass at him resulting in a fatal injury.
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Justice Minister Delroy Chuck has apologised unreservedly for what he called the lack of sensitivity displayed during a discussion of the issue of sexual harassment.
Dickwon Nigel Adams, the boyfriend of the pregnant Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, teenager whose body was fished out of the Berbice River last week, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with her murder.
Adams, 19, of Lot 17 Smithfield, New Amsterdam and DeVeldt Village, Upper Berbice River, was yesterday charged with murdering Melissa Soman, 17, of Number 58 Stanleytown, New Amsterdam.
Police have said Adams, 22, had confessed to assaulting the young woman with a piece of wood, causing her to fall overboard.
The accused had related to investigators that he, Soman and a relative of his, who was also in police custody, were at a birthday party, when he noticed Soman dancing with the relative, which led to him using a piece of wood to assault Soman.
However, it is claimed, that Soman then jumped overboard to escape the beating and was rescued by the relative, after which the boyfriend continued to assault them with the piece of wood, causing Soman to fall overboard for a second time.
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The Port Elizabeth Regional Court also sentenced Noziswe Stefaans, 46, to four years in jail for attempting to kill three of the victim's relatives, 15 years for robbery and five years for kidnapping.
Police were out in force across Los Angeles today, trying to hold the peace amid multiple protests tied to the police killing
of George Floyd in Minneapolis, as Mayor Eric Garcetti announced an overnight curfew for an area downtown Los Angeles.
The curfew is in effect from 5 p.m. Saturday to 5:30 a.m. Sunday, and Garcetti said it was issued at the request of Los Angeles Police Chief Michel Moore so officials could clean up Friday’s mess.
“Six Los Angeles Police Officers were injured during the protests on Friday night and early Saturday morning,” Moore tweeted.
People took to the streets Friday for the third consecutive night to demand justice for Floyd, who died Monday after being handcuffed and pinned to the ground by a white Minneapolis Police Department officer, Derek Chauvin, who pressed his knee on the 46-year-old man’s neck for several minutes while three other officers looked on.
The looting came about four hours after several people were detained shortly before 7 p.m. near Fifth and Olive streets for allegedly throwing objects at officers and damaging police cars that were parked near the intersection.
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Dr. Dhanpaul Narine, who is deeply involved with the Guyanese diaspora in New York said the main focus of the newly sworn in People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) government should be on the “reduction of poverty” through training for jobs and business opportunities.
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As he announced that rehiring of sugar workers at Rose Hall estate began yesterday, President Irfaan Ali said government is now focused on redeveloping farmlands in order to deliver on its campaign promise to reopen shuttered estates since the former administration left the industry in ruins.
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It is always hard work getting governments in this country to show an interest in heritage issues, and it will be particularly hard now when there is a pandemic raging and those who sit in power have their minds fully occupied by fossil fuel matters.
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The highly successful relationship between the Rose Hall Town Youth and Sports Club (RHTYSC) and the National Milling Company of Guyana (Namilco) was extended another year after the company renewed its sponsorship on Monday.
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