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Georgetown Mayor Hamilton Green yesterday expressed the hope that the findings of the City Hall Inquiry Report when disclosed will be used to lift the management of the city to another level and not for political purposes.
A woman who allegedly robbed two other women on separate days was yesterday remanded to prison when she appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Cooking a hot meal without the use of a stove or a flame during sunny weather may seem impossible to many but it is easy and the food may surprise one where taste is concerned.
The official distributor of Cadbury-Adams products in Guyana, Geddes Grant, yesterday declared that it never imported or distributed the batch of chocolates that was found to be tainted and several of which were found at a city store recently.
An 18-year-old labourer accused of committing the offence of burglary was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
GECOM recently agreed to put together a proposal for the demarcation of constituencies within Neighbourhood Democratic Councils that are geographically small and/or under-populated and to submit suggestions for the number of seats respectively for consideration by Minister of Local Government Kellawan Lall.
Tulsiram Sukdeo, the man who suffered a fractured skull and lost sight in his left eye among other injuries during a boat collision in April, has filed a $10 million lawsuit against the US-based company which owns the vessel that was involved, alleging that its agents were negligent and reckless.
A 29-year-old minibus conductor who allegedly stole a camera from a woman was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir has queried the factual basis of a report by the International Trade Union Confederation (ITUC) on the Trade Policies of Guyana which cited child labour as a problem among others.
Parents of students at the Mahaicony Primary School have voiced their concerns over a dormitory that regional officials of Region Five were planning to erect on a small portion of land at the back of the school.
SAN JOSE, Costa Rica, (Reuters) – The United States and the Costa Rican mediator in Honduras’ political crisis urged the rival sides yesterday to give talks a chance after the ousted president threatened to abandon dialogue if he was not reinstated quickly.
DAR ES SALAAM, (Reuters) – A UN court trying the architects of Rwanda’s 1994 genocide jailed a former Kigali governor for life on five counts including ordering the killing of 60 Tutsi boys in a church-run pastoral centre.
-secured 20 places in the top 1% Twelve students from the Leonora Primary School won places at Queen’s College (QC) at the National Grade Six Assessment and Region Three has secured 20 places at the country’s top secondary schools.
Youth from 18 Caricom countries on Sunday participated in a symbolic tree-planting exercise in Haiti as part of a four-day Caribbean Youth Exchange Programme.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama’s Supreme Court nominee Sonia Sotomayor fended off Republican attacks yesterday, saying “diversity on the bench is good for America” and her legal decisions would be based on law, not racial bias.
A man who allegedly had a quantity of cannabis in his position was yesterday granted bail in the sum of $25,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China yesterday dismissed Turkey’s accusation of genocide in its northwestern Muslim region of Xinjiang, where rioting killed 184 people, mostly majority Han Chinese.
CIUDAD JUAREZ, Mexico, (Reuters) – Suspected drug gang members killed the mayor of a ranching town in northern Mexico yesterday in a revenge attack for a mass arrest of hitmen that already sparked the murder of an American Mormon.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – An attorney for Michael Jackson’s ex-wife Debbie Rowe yesterday angrily denied reports that she had agreed to take millions of dollars to give up parental rights to her two children with the King of Pop.
SYDNEY, (Reuters Life!) – Living happily ever after needn’t only be for fairy tales.
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