Peru announces opening of embassy in Guyana
Peruvian news agency Andina today reported that Lima is to set up an embassy in Guyana for the first time ever.
Articles published on Wednesday, December 18, 2024
Peruvian news agency Andina today reported that Lima is to set up an embassy in Guyana for the first time ever.
GTU President Mark Lyte today told Stabroek News that he had been suspended by the union’s General Council over the controversial deal struck between teachers and the government in August this year.
(Trinidad Express) On December 8, a passenger plane over Port of Spain descending into the Piarco International Airport, came within six metres (20 feet) of unmanned drone.
SANTOS, Brazil, (Reuters) – Helena Monteiro da Costa’s father was brought from Angola to Brazil as an enslaved person in the 19th century.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) President-elect Donald Trump plans to launch a mass deportation operation targeting millions of immigrants living in the U.S.
Noah Beaton, the suspect in Monday’s gruesome murder of Ridley Joseph, Toshao of Tassarene, in Region Seven has confessed to the act.
President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced a special one-off cash grant of $35,000 for all persons with permanent disabilities who are on the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security’s Disability Register.
The first cohort of 365 persons has completed the One Guyana Digital Programme, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).
A family in Little Abary in Region Five is grappling with the aftermath of a 20-lb Massy gas bottle explosion that rocked their home early yesterday morning, leaving them without basic utilities and seeking answers from the supplier.
A formal complaint was filed yesterday with the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) by businessman and Opposition representative on the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Board, Terrence Campbell against Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo for allegedly making racially inflammatory remarks during a press conference on December 12th, 2024.
A group of Venezuelan Warrau migrants who had been stranded in Georgetown on Monday evening were finally provided with assistance by the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs yesterday.
(ESPN Cricinfo) – Bangladesh defended their modest score of 129 to clinch the T20I series with a 2-0 lead, beating West Indies by 27 runs in the second game at the Arnos Vale Ground in St.
The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G) has expressed worry that landownership for all Guyanese may be threatened by a proposed amendment to a Bill that deals with acquisition of lands by government.
The decomposed body of a man who was reported missing on December 14, was discovered at the Cove and John foreshore on Monday afternoon.
KFC International Football Series – Chase Academy hits DC Caesar Fox for 6 By Michelangelo Jacobus Matchday two in the KFC International Goodwill Football series produced even more fireworks and goals with four more thrilling encounters, albeit heavily one-sided in some cases, as defending champion Clarendon College of Jamaica and Chase Academy Foundation stormed to comfortable wins.
The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) yesterday certified MACORP’s Scheduled Oil Sampling (SOS) laboratory under the GYS 170:2021 standard, highlighting the facility’s commitment to precision, reliability, and adherence to international best practices, a MACORP release announced.
Dear Editor, In reflecting on the state of political discourse in Guyana today, it is hard not to lament the erosion of civility that once characterized our national debates.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A top Russian general accused by Ukraine of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops was assassinated in Moscow by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service yesterday morning in the most high-profile killing of its kind.
Trevin John, a 37-year-old gold miner of Baramita, North West District, was charged yesterday with attempted murder.
Dear Editor, Yesterday morning, Tuesday December 17th 2024, I saw a video circulating on social media of Lieutenant Colonel Earl Edghill, an officer of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) who is currently performing the duties of Aide de Camp (ADC) to His Excellency Mohamed Irfaan Ali, President of the Cooperative Republic of Guyana, doing something that in the almost six decades history of the GDF has never been done.
An investigation has been launched by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) regarding a policeman who was seen in a video on Monday night kicking a man while he lay on the road during an arrest.
Dear Editor, Since Wanderlust Adventures GY, in the person of Ms.
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis has revealed he was the target of an attempted suicide bombing during his visit to Iraq three years ago, the first by a Catholic pontiff to the country and probably the riskiest foreign trip of his 11-year papacy.
Dear Editor, I was horrified to open the December 15 edition of the Sunday Stabroek to find a cartoon depicting the First Lady of Guyana standing in a champagne glass next to a bottle of champagne labelled ‘oil money,’ and next to her a tilted over and spilling rum bottle labelled ‘rum shop’.
(Reuters) – Rescuers in Vanuatu searched on Wednesday for people trapped under rubble a day after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific nation’s capital Port Vila, killing 14 people and damaging commercial buildings, embassies and a hospital.
Following the collapse of utility poles along Aubrey Barker Road from Kaikan Street to Festival City’s entrance on Thursday, residents faced electricity and water supply disruptions and Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill yesterday tendered an apology.
Dear Editor, A recent letter by one Changlee, `Talent at Bishops’ should not be used for vocational education,’ (SN, Dec.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register newspaper and its former top pollster, the day after he stepped up his legal threats against news outlets and said he would also consider suing social media influencers for defamation.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) is expressing shock and outrage at the tragic death of veteran journalist Barbara Gayle.
Alonzo Melville, a 29-year-old bailiff of Byderabo Road, Bartica, appeared at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Magistrate Teriq Mohamed to answer to the charge of obtaining money by false pretence.
(ESPN Cricinfo) – West Indies levelled the T20I series in style, with captain Hayley Matthews at the forefront of a robust batting performance in a nine-wicket thrashing.
(Reuters) – Pakistan’s exciting opener Saim Ayub gave a vivid display of his prodigious talent with a classy century yesterday to lead his team to a closely fought three-wicket win over South Africa in the first of their three One Day Internationals.
The fire that claimed the lives of a mother and her daughter at Westminster, West Bank Demerara, last Friday, was electrical in origin, Fire Chief Gregory Wickham says.
Major League Soccer (MLS) outfit Chicago Fire has signed Golden Jaguars forward Omari Glasgow to a first-team contract yesterday, following his exploits with the team’s reserve squad.
Dear Editor, India’s arrival in the Caribbean began in 1838 when two ships landed in British Guiana (now Guyana) with a cargo of indentured servants to work on the sugar plantations.
Kashif & Shanghai Futsal Championship Road Warriors, Agricola, California Square, and YMCA secured berths to the next round following contrasting wins when the Kashif and Shanghai National Futsal Championship continued on Monday evening at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.
By Dr Bertrand Ramcharan With its membership of the UN Security Council and its new-found resources, Guyana is a growing player on the international scene.
By Nathalie Alvarado and Ana María Ibáñez WASHINGTON, DC – Violent crime in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) has for decades taken a steep toll on lives and livelihoods.
(ESPN Cricinfo) – India took a massive step towards leaving Brisbane with the Border-Gavaskar Trophy still level, as their last-wicket pair put on a rousing, unbroken 39 to steer their team past the follow-on mark.
On Monday, at Mar-a-Lago, US president-elect Donald Trump stated to reporters, “There is talk about the postal service being taken private, you do know that — not the worst idea I’ve ever heard.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada imposed sanctions on five current or former senior officials of the Venezuelan government yesterday, saying the individuals undermined democracy, in a move rejected by Caracas, which called the measure “illegal.”
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Armed men attacked and partially destroyed a hospital in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, a hospital director told Reuters yesterday, amid a wave of escalating violence that prompted Doctors Without Borders to suspend operations in Haiti last month.
The Guyana Boxing Association (GBA) has remained silent as to reasons for the deferment of their Terrence Ali National Open Championship, which was scheduled to commence on December 13th at the Andrew ‘Six Head’ Lewis gym in Albouystown.