The government needs to take a serious approach to the recent apology from CL Financial and its offer to make amends over the collapse of Clico (Guyana) and not use the development for political gain, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday.
A book of condolence for the National Library’s former Chairman, Carmen Jarvis, has been opened in the lobby of the Central Library.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – The State Department said yesterday it was ending US funding for the United Nations Population Fund, the international body’s agency focused on family planning as well as maternal and child health in more than 150 countries.
ST PETERSBURG, Russia (Reuters) – A blast in a St Petersburg train carriage yesterday that killed 11 people and injured 45 was carried out by a suspected suicide bomber with ties to radical Islamists, Russia’s Interfax news agency cited a law enforcement source as saying.
After completing 10 weeks of intense technical and cultural training on the Essequibo Coast and living with Guyanese host families, 38 Peace Corps volunteers were sworn in yesterday at a ceremony held at the Imam Bacchus and Sons Playfield, Affiance, Essequibo Coast.
Police are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a Lusignan handyman, who was found by neighbours on a street in the village with marks of violence yesterday afternoon.
ASUNCION, April 3 (Reuters) – Thousands of protesters gathered outside Paraguay’s Congress yesterday evening in a new but peaceful demonstration over an unpopular Senate vote for an amendment last week that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election.
LONDON (Reuters) – A “massive and growing” mental health burden across the world can only be tackled successfully with a major expansion of online psychiatric resources such as virtual clinics and web-based psychotherapies, specialists said today.
A man was yesterday charged with stealing $1.8 million in jewellery from a friend after they went out partying.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump yesterday signed a repeal of Obama-era broadband privacy rules, the White House said, a victory for internet service providers and a blow to privacy advocates.
WASHINGTON/CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s representative to the Organization of American States stormed out of a session of the 34-nation bloc yesterday, calling the meeting a “coup d’etat,” as regional pressure grew for President Nicolas Maduro to fully restore democratic rule in the country.
PARIS (Reuters) – France will not give in to demands for an “unrealistic” €2.5 billion ($2.7 billion) aid package for French Guiana, which has been swept by social unrest, Prime Minister Bernard Cazeneuve said yesterday.
After managing to elude the police for more than two weeks, a man was on Sunday arrested in relation to the murder of Arnold Gordon, whose body was found with an arrow in his chest at Kumu Village, Central Rupununi last month This was confirmed by Commander of ‘F’ Division Ravindradat Budhram who told Stabroek News that the suspect was up to yesterday afternoon being questioned by the police as the investigation continues.
CARACAS/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s opposition sought to keep pressure on President Nicolas Maduro with scattered protests on Monday, but there was relief for the socialist government when the Organization of American States delayed a debate on the crisis.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC — West Indies selectors today announced a 13-man squad for the three-match One-Day International series against Pakistan starting on Friday in Guyana.
The man convicted in the 2015 shooting death of a Guyana-born New York City police officer was sentenced today to life in prison, according to WABC.
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today reminded the public about the restriction on used tyres and said a phasing-in period will end on April 30th, 2017.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 39-year-old St James man was shot dead in front his home on Saturday night.
-end of year deadline unlikely A prefabricated terminal is under consideration for the Cheddi Jagan International Airport extension project as the permanent work is unlikely to be completed by May and the end-of-year deadline for the entire US$150m expansion is also in doubt.
Attorney General Basil Williams could face serious sanction over his behaviour in the court of Justice Franklin Holder two weeks ago.
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