Two persons are now dead and another is battling for life at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) after a head-on collision involving a car and a truck at Coverden on the East Bank Demerara (EBD) Wednesday.

The dead persons have been identified as 49-year-old Roshini Dourga of Diamond, EBD, and her uncle, George Madhulall, 72. Madhulall, who resided in Canada, was here on vacation. Dourga’s husband, Robert, 62, was also wounded in the accident. He is said to be in a critical condition at the GPHC. Kaieteur News was told that Robert Dourga was the driver of the white Toyota Spacio that the trio was travelling in.(Kaieteurnews.com/photo:Kaieteurnews.com)…[+]

Detectives attached to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) Headquarters are busy cross-checking certain aspects of a confession given Wednesday by the man who stabbed hospital dispatcher Melissa Skeete and then dumped her out of a car last Monday. The man, Alan Sim, who surrendered to police on Wednesday, gave detectives a detailed statement Wednesday in which he claimed that his actions, which resulted in the death of Skeete, were triggered by the woman’s “disrespectfulness” and they were done in self-defence. Skeete, who was stabbed seven times about her body, succumbed a few hours later, while receiving treatment at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation.(Kaieteurnews.com/photo:Kaieteurnews.com)…[+]

AFRICA  –  Pope Francis waded into the heart of a Kenyan shantytown Friday, spreading a message of acceptance and lashing out at the elite in a neighborhood that feels largely disenfranchised.

Francis’ visit to Kangemi mirrors his message of service to the poor during his three days in Nairobi.  In the sprawling slum filled with tin-roofed homes, he described injustices against the poor as “new forms of colonialism.” “Our world has a grave social debt toward the poor who lack access to drinking water because they are denied a life consistent with their inalienable dignity,” he said.

He said the “dreadful injustice of social exclusion” leaves the poor with an unfair distribution of land, and lack of access to infrastructures and basic services.(CNN.COM/photo: cmgdigital.com)…[+]