The Competition and Consumer Affairs Commission (CCAC) today said it has noted recent incidents involving critical injuries to consumers and severe damage to property during the use of a particular brand of cooking gas product.
The government is upbeat about the prospects of increased bauxite production here this year as the Chinese-owned Bosai Minerals Group has been granted additional land to mine that would see increases to 250,000 tonnes and 400,000 next year along with 1,000 people being employed by March.
The Ministry of Public Works has announced a traffic management notice regarding the Railway Embankment Road Expansion Project.
A scene from La Bonne Intention Primary School yesterday. (Ministry of Education photo)
There is a sense in which the Tuesday, December 31st Stabroek News lead story – ‘GPHC says has seen over 60,000 patients this year’ provides a generous measure of enlightenment on both the nature and the scale of the challenges (crises?)
During last year the Criminal Assizes of Demerara, Berbice, and Essequibo concluded 332 cases.
Part 110 Interviews and photos by Subhana Shiwmangal Stabroek News spoke to members of the public in Cotton Tree, West Coast Berbice about the rising cost of living and how it is affecting them.
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CAPE TOWN, (Reuters) – South Africa made light work of a modest target of 58 to claim victory against Pakistan by 10 wickets at a sun-bathed Newlands yesterday, wrapping up the series 2-0 inside four days of the second and final test.
(Field Level Media) Cade Cunningham had 32 points, nine assists and six rebounds and the host Detroit Pistons won their season-high fourth straight game with a 118-115 victory over the Portland Trail Blazers last night.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Aryna Sabalenka is clear favourite to win a third straight Australian Open title later this month but the Belarusian did not get to be world number one by taking anything for granted.
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister in waiting Stuart Young is expected to take up official duties by the end of February.
CARACAS/ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Venezuela broke off diplomatic relations with Paraguay yesterday, with Paraguay expelling Venezuela’s diplomats in the country in return, a day after Paraguayan President Santiago Pena expressed support for Venezuela’s opposition.
(Trinidad Guardian) Regional security consultant Garvin Heerah believes that Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and tourism arrivals to T&T could be negatively affected given the bad press that T&T has received in recent days, since Monday’s announcement of the State of Emergency (SoE) to deal with T&T’s spiralling crime rate.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – Corruption is the biggest threat to China’s Communist Party, President Xi Jinping said today, in a clear warning that the ruling party is resolved to tackle a long-running problem that is now entrenched in many strata of Chinese society.
BEVERLY HILLS, California, (Reuters) – “The Brutalist,” the story of a Holocaust survivor who chases the American dream, and musical thriller “Emilia Perez” took home the first major movie honors of Hollywood’s awards season at the Golden Globes yesterday.
SEOUL (Reuters) – The chief of security for South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol said on Sunday he could not cooperate with efforts to arrest the impeached leader, in remarks that could push the political crisis towards another high-stakes confrontation.
