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Major contracts were yesterday signed for fire stations at Mahaicony in Region Five and Onderneeming in Region Two.

The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security has begun distributing the 2025 Old Age Pension (OAP) books and aims to complete the process by January 31.

One week after 30-year-old Chibieere Edeah was seriously injured in a crash at the roundabout at Crane, West Coast Demerara, he succumbed to his injuries yesterday.

The Guyana Police Force yesterday denied that a Deputy Superintendent had been transferred as a result of the departure from the country of the wife of Assistant Police Commissioner, Calvin Brutus.

Chief Magistrate (ag) Faith McGusty will deliver a ruling on December 30, 2024, on whether the high-profile 2020 election fraud case will proceed summarily or indictably.

Guyana yesterday submitted to the International Court of Justice (ICJ) the final written brief on the merits of its border controversy case with Venezuela and Caracas is now expected to respond to it.

Guyana is among the nations considered as Caricom’s ‘coalition of the willing’ as it relates to free movement and will embrace all of the CSME treaty’s obligations, as it awaits a collective agreement by member states, Minister of Foreign Affairs Hugh Todd says.

The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) is calling for a national conversation on the economic significance of ethnicity in Guyana and described the developing policies to accommodate the new type of society Guyana is becoming as not encouraging.

Small contractors from Linden, Region Ten, signed an additional 94 contracts on Friday to upgrade roads in the mining town, the Department of Public Information (DPI) said.

-cites issue over unresolved car prize Outgoing titleholder Andrea King has announced her decision to withdraw from the 2024 Miss World Guyana Coronation.

By Subhana Shiwmangal The family of Claurine Prescod-Stoll, the 24-year-old woman whose husband allegedly  stabbed her in the presence of their young son, yesterday said she had separated from the man two weeks before the assault because of his abusive behaviour.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) yesterday called on the President and the Leader of the Opposition to “show some maturity by beginning a dialogue aimed at a political solution regarding the election”.

A triangular love affair resulted in two women appearing before Magistrate Fabayo Azore charged with assaulting each other.

– Haiti PM’s office says after massacre of 180 people (Reuters) – Around 180 people were killed over the weekend in Haiti’s Cite Soleil area, Haiti’s prime minister’s office said yesterday, after attacks that an NGO said were ordered by a gang leader who suspected his child had been made ill using witchcraft.

An accident on the Adventure public road on the Essequibo Coast has left five persons, including two drivers, injured and hospitalised.

DAMASCUS,  (Reuters) – Ousted Syrian President Bashar al-Assad’s prime minister said he had agreed yesterday to hand power to the rebel-led Salvation Government, a day after the rebels seized the capital Damascus and Assad fled to Russia.

(Trinidad Express) The Trinidad and Tobago Airline Pilots’ Association (TTALPA) believes the Board of Caribbean Airlines Ltd (CAL) is trying to reverse its commitment in signing off its collective agreement after it was approved by the Finance Minister.

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The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has applauded the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) on the launch of GBTI GROW, a division dedicated to addressing the unique needs of small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs).

(Jamaica Gleaner) Although the quality of Jamaica’s spices is considered among the best in the world, the farmers who grow ginger, turmeric and pimento are earning very little from their endeavours, with most of the money going to traders of the products, according to a recent study.