The Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) on Monday approved a motion for the payment of all outstanding benefits to former Town Clerk Royston King in like manner to a payout approved for former Town Clerk Carol Sooba.
Fire Chief (ag) Gregory Wickham has confirmed that the recent fire which destroyed a Wakenaam, Region Three house and business was electrical in origin.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – The United Nations General Assembly today overwhelmingly voted to reprimand Russia for invading Ukraine and demanded that Moscow stop fighting and withdraw its military forces, an action that aims to diplomatically isolate Russia at the world body.
Guyana’s President Irfaan Ali told Regional Heads of Government yesterday that Trinidad-based Republic Bank, through the CARICOM Sustainability Agriculture Credit Facility will be offering up to $20 billion (US$100 million) in financing for the development of the agriculture sector.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) at its weekly statutory meeting yesterday took a decision to commence continuous registration in anticipation of hosting Local Government Elections (LGE).
Following the nomination by PPP/C MPs of Hamley Case, Dunstan Barrow and Clement Sealey for one of the seats on the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Board, the opposition A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) will be making its own submissions today.
Former President and Representative of the List for APNU+AFC, David Granger has been asked to extract the name of People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Leader, Aubrey Norton to replace Nicolette Henry as a Member of Parliament.
Former prison warder, Sheldon Prince, who pleaded guilty to stabbing his wife to death on December 28, 2016 at the National Psychiatric Hospital, was yesterday sentenced to life in prison by Justice Sandil Kissoon who told him that the crime went beyond a case of domestic violence, stating, “it is a cold, calculated act of callous, gruesome premeditated murder carefully planned and violently executed.”
STEMGuyana is set to benefit from the financial support of the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) through its IDB Lab, which will help some 1,000 children across 40 communities in all ten regions of Guyana.
Guyana’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations (UN) Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett on Monday told the 11th Emergency Special Session of the General Assembly that Russia’s aggression against Ukraine is a “threat to the region and countries everywhere”.
With credit for time served and other deductions from an 18-year sentence, Faizal Bacchus was yesterday released from prison over the 2015 killing of proprietor of the Regent Multiplex Mall, Ganesh Ramlall.
A data entry error resulted in the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) listing only one of the three companies in a consortium that bid to audit Guyana’s cost oil and the agency’s website has since made a correction to reflect all the companies involved.
The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative to Guyana and Suriname, Nicolas Pron, yesterday formally presented UNICEF’s Country Programme Document (CPD) 2022-2026 to Guyana’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs, marking the start of a new programme of cooperation to realise the rights and wellbeing of all children in Guyana.
HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Exxon Mobil XOM.N yesterday said it would exit Russia oil and gas operations that it has valued at more than US$4 billion and halt new investment as a result of Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine.
Head of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU), Senior Superintendent Fazil Karimbaksh has filed a $70 million libel suit against retired Assistant Commissioner of Police and former Chairman of the Police Service Commission, Paul Slowe whom he says has made certain defamatory statements against him.