Panelists at a highly anticipated public symposium on Guyana’s constitutional reform process were faced last evening with questions over the lack of engagement by young people with the subject.
Business owners and residents of Eteringbang, Region Seven, have been left in a state of uncertainty following the “abrupt” closure of the Eteringbang Airstrip last Friday afternoon.
Seeking to do business in Guyana once again, Lawrence Duprey, Chairman of CL Financial and other officials of the company met with Minister of Finance Winston Jordan last Thursday and signaled plans to “make amends” for the approximately US$40M debt owed mainly to the National Insurance Scheme (NIS).
The Giftland Mall, as part of its corporate social responsibility, has launched its ‘Giftland Cares Sophia Project,’ aimed at developing the community.
Just weeks after winning praises for hammering away a wheel clamp from his vehicle, businessman Mikhail Rodrigues found himself in the spotlight once again yesterday when he was hauled a city court and charged with a $2 million fraud.
Leila Jagdeo, the 69-year-old woman who is accused of shooting Brandon Collins, the maintenance worker of the Alpha Hotel at Ogle, East Coast Demerara (ECD) on Thursday, was yesterday charged and granted her release on bail.
Magistrate Fabayo Azore yesterday announced that she would proceed with the trial of former public service minister Dr Jennifer Westford and ex-ministry personnel officer Margaret Cummings, who are charged with the attempted larceny of state vehicles and forgery.
A man was yesterday committed to stand trial for the attempted murder of Mark Rodney, who was chopped outside a police outpost on Water Street last year.
ASUNCION (Reuters) – Protesters stormed and set fire to Paraguay’s Congress yesterday after the Senate secretly voted for a constitutional amendment that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election, a change that will also require approval by the House.
LIMA (Reuters) – Public prosecutors in Peru have opened a preliminary probe into the country’s former President Alan Garcia as part of a far-reaching inquiry into bribes that Brazilian builder Odebrecht SA has acknowledged distributing to win local contracts, a source in the attorney general’s office said Friday.
A city magistrate yesterday sentenced a man to two years in jail after he admitted to committing a violent robbery.
MOUNTAINS OF CAUCA, Colombia (Reuters) – Former fighters from Colombia’s FARC rebel group are handing over thousands of weapons and other materials to international officials in special camps, as the group’s six-month disarmament process continues.
An Essequibo Coast security guard was yesterday charged with the attempted murder for shooting a businessman during a row over a pool game.
North Ruimveldt resident Ras Parris, who police say had two pounds of cannabis in his possession, was granted his release on $200,000 bail yesterday after his lawyer disputed the police’s account of the bust.
BURAO, Somalia (Reuters) – Deadly cholera is spreading through drought-ravaged Somalia as clean water sources dry up, a top aid official said, deepening a humanitarian crisis in a country that is on the verge of famine.
A Plaisance woman, who was accused of attempting to pass off forged United States dollars, was on Wednesday granted her release on bail by a city magistrate after denying the charge.
(Reuters) – The sight of Venezuela’s National Assembly president tearing up a Supreme Court ruling and warning foreign firms against making deals with the leftist government will no doubt resonate in international boardrooms.
LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Agricultural ministers have agreed on a plan to fight the red palm weevil which ravages coconut, date and oil palms, experts said yesterday, describing it as “a global threat”.
James Barrington Layne, known as “Uncle James,” of Lichfield, Mahaica, Berbice, celebrated his 101st birthday on Monday.
Caribbean Ministers of Education and other educational officials yesterday met to finalise a regional strategy for education and human resource development.
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