Outgoing passengers at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) during the course of Sunday and Monday , have been an emotional rollercoaster due to the frequent delays and cancellation of flights from several Airlines.

This occurrence has resulted in the authorities scampering to find solutions to the problem amidst angry passengers demanding answers from their respective flight services including Insel Air, Dynamic Airlines and Eastern Airlines. A Senior Official at the Airport stated yesterday that the delays may have stemmed from a problem being experienced by the Americas II Cable located off the French Caribbean island of Martinique. The apparent collapse of this cable, which feeds data to SITA – an information technology (IT) company that provides IT and telecommunication services to the air transport industry – has rendered the Automated Airlines Check-in services inoperable resulting in airlines conducting their check-ins manually – a process that takes hours longer, the official explained. Another airline spokesperson said that 90 percent of the cancellations and delays are due to operationalisation issues on the part of the airlines and not the Airport. .(Kaeteurnews.com/photo: kaieteurnews.com)…[+]

USA –   Bullets are out, water is in. Apple is replacing the controversial pistol emoji with a green water gun in the next version of its iPhone and iPad operating system, iOS 10.

The gun swap is just one of a number of emoji changes the company announced on Monday. It will also introduce new and revamped emojis that show women doing stereotypically male jobs like detective, construction worker, and police officer. There are new female athletes, a pride flag, and family options for single parents.

The water gun swap is not Apple’s (AAPL, Tech30) first foray into cartoon gun control. Earlier this year the governing body in charge of emojis nixed a proposed rifle emoji. It was one of a number of possible new additions, but Unicode Consortium members Apple and Microsoft argued against the Olympics-inspired gun, according to Buzzfeed.(CNN.COM/photo: cnn.com)…[+]

President David Granger called on the members of the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Mahaica-Berbice (Region 5) to end the months’-long impasse, which had been sparked after the Regional Chairman, Mr. Vickchand Ramphal was absent during several visits to the Region by the Head of State.

However, President Granger called for an end to the standoff, which had seen some Council members staging protest action at Council meetings, demanding an apology from the Regional Chairman for what they believed was an act of disrespect to the President. The Chairman was present at the Emancipation Day Celebrations in Ithaca, West Bank Berbice, yesterday. There the President called on all Council members to let ‘bygones be bygones’ for the good of the Region. “Today I want to make a special appeal so that you understand very well that this country could only work if all three levels of Government work together.(Kaieteurnews.com/Photo: kaieteurnews.com)…[+]

Pope Francis has a perfectly good reason for why he took a tumble at a Mass in Poland last week: He was watching Madonna. “I was looking at [an image of] the Madonna, and I forgot the step,” he said Sunday aboard a plane back to Rome after celebrating World Youth Day. Francis had been sprinkling incense around an outdoor altar at the Jasna Gora Monastery, in Czestochowa, when he took his dramatic, mid-Mass tumble on July 28.“I let myself fall, and this saved me, Because if I tried to resist it, I would have gotten hurt,” Francis explained.(nypost.com)…[+]

There’s more “Clinton Cash” trouble for Hillary.

A report out Monday, “From Russia With Money — Hillary Clinton, the Russian Reset and Cronyism,” raises serious questions about the cash connections between the Clintons and participants in the State Department’s failed five-year effort to improve, or “reset,” US-Russia relations during Hillary’s reign as secretary of state.

Key players in a main component of the reset — a Moscow-based Silicon Valley-styled campus for developing biomed, space, nuclear and IT technologies called “Skolkovo” — poured tens of millions of dollars into the Clinton Foundation, the report by journalist Peter Schweizer alleges.(Nypost.com)…[+]

The sit-com is a little like “I Love Lucy,” starring a comic housewife who gets into shenanigans and bickers with her husband. Except children play all the roles. And it all takes place in one of the historic stone houses in the old city of Aleppo, besieged by government forces in one of the worst battlegrounds of Syria’s civil war.

“Um Abdou the Aleppan” is a small curiosity of the 5-year-old war, the first sit-com produced out of rebel-held parts of Syria.Aired in 2014 on a local Aleppo station, it was a light-hearted look at life in the war-ravaged city, finding comedy as it showed residents dealing with everything from cut-offs in electricity and water, to factionalism among rebels, to bombardments and violence. The child actors, even as they spot-on mimic characters of a traditional Aleppo neighborhood, provide a tone of innocence.(Telegraaf)…[+]

STOCKHOLM — She was off duty and wearing a bikini but that didn’t stop Swedish police officer Mikaela Kellner from catching a suspected thief.A photo of Kellner pinning the suspect to the ground was trending on social media in Sweden this week.“My first intervention while wearing a bikini during my 11 years as a police officer,” she wrote on Instagram.Kellner and three friends were sunbathing Wednesday in a Stockholm park, a homeless man selling newspapers approached, she told Swedish newspaper Aftonbladet.(nypost.com)…[+]

BRUSSELS — Two brothers have been arrested in Belgium on suspicion of plotting a terrorist attack, the Federal Prosecutor’s Office announced Saturday.

Nourredine H., 33, and his brother Hamza H. were taken in for questioning following police searches Friday evening in the city of Liege and the Mons region. A Belgian judge will decide Saturday whether the two men should remain in custody.

The police searches were carried out at the request of a magistrate specializing in terrorism investigations, the prosecutor’s office said in a statement. It said that according to preliminary information, the brothers may have been involved in plans to commit an attack in Belgium.(nypost.com)…[+]

MADISON, Wis. — A 14-year-old Wisconsin girl tried to kill her brother’s girlfriend, slitting her throat and telling her during the attack that she was a psychopath looking for her first kill, according to investigators.

Kali Jade Bookey of New Richmond, a city of 8,400 people about 35 miles east of Minneapolis, was charged as an adult Thursday with attempted first-degree intentional homicide. She could face up to 40 years in prison, if she’s convicted.(nypost.com)…[+]

RUSSIA   –  Thirteen people have been hospitalized amid an outbreak of anthrax in western Siberia, the governor’s office of the Yamalo-Nenets autonomous region reported Thursday. Experts with the Russian Ministry of Agriculture believe the cause of infection is the thawing of the frozen carcass of a reindeer that died 75 years ago.

Anthrax is a potentially deadly bacterial disease caused by Bacillus anthracis, according to the World Health Organization. The hospitalizations came after up to 1,200 reindeer died over the past month, which officials originally blamed on a heat wave in the region. Unusually high temperatures of up to 35 degrees Celsius (95 degrees Fahrenheit) recorded over the past month might have weakened the reindeer. Now, laboratory tests have confirmed that the reindeer died of anthrax, Gov. Dmitry Kobylkin’s office reported.(CNN.COM/photo: Getty Images)…[+]