NORTH- KOREA   –   North Korea’s catalog of abuses against its own people within the secretive country’s tightly controlled borders has been widely reported. But Kim Jong Un’s regime is also believed to be pocketing huge sums from tens of thousands of its citizens who are sent abroad to toil in forced labor conditions, the United Nations says.

The laborers are made to work as long as 20 hours a day without enough food and under constant surveillance, according to a new report from Marzuki Darusman, the U.N. special reporter on human rights in North Korea.(CNN.COM/photo:cnn.com)…[+]

The Attorney General Chambers is still in the process of gathering evidence in the matter related to a 15-acre tract of land at Sparendaam, East Coast Demerara. The land was transformed into a posh residential community where the lots were sold to several former Ministers of Government and other high level officials, including the former President, Bharrat Jagdeo.

Attorney General, Basil Williams, yesterday provided an update in the matter which has since attracted the attention of the Court through civil litigation that was brought against a number of those given house-lots by former A Partnership for National Unity Member of Parliament (MP) Desmond Trotman.(Kaieteurnieuws.com/photo:Kaieteurnieuws.com)…[+]

The 99-year lease that governs the use of land on which sits the heritage building known as Red House will be quashed. Government is also looking to have the building used to commemorate not just one former President, the Late Cheddi Jagan.

This is the position of the A Partnership for National Unity plus Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC) Government, according to Attorney General, Basil Williams. He did say that government was looking to have the matter between the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and the new government resolved. He spoke of a meeting between the PPP and himself on the matter.(Kaieteurnieuws.com/photo:Kaieteurnieuws.com)…[+]