Ministers finalise Caricom strategy for education, human resource development
Caribbean Ministers of Education and other educational officials yesterday met to finalise a regional strategy for education and human resource development.
Caribbean Ministers of Education and other educational officials yesterday met to finalise a regional strategy for education and human resource development.
By Mark Wilson (Trinidad Express) – An indefinite general strike started on Monday.
LONDON (Reuters) – Campaigners mounting a legal challenge to determine whether Britain’s divorce from the European Union can be reversed said they had filed their written legal case yesterday.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday he would resolve within hours controversy over the judiciary’s annulment of congress which has sparked opposition protests and condemnation from around the world.
Assistant Commissioner of Police and Force Training Officer Paul Williams yesterday urged 21 ranks who successfully completed this year’s first Basic Drill Course to continuously practice their drills as they progress in the force.
ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Protesters stormed and set fire to Paraguay’s Congress on Friday after the Senate secretly voted for a constitutional amendment that would allow President Horacio Cartes to run for re-election.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs will be hosting a Heads of Mission Conference (HOMC) from April 3-8, 2017 at the Pegasus Hotel, under the theme “Advancing Guyana’s Diplomacy in the 21st Century”, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said yesterday.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s powerful attorney general on Friday rebuked the judiciary’s takeover of congress, breaking ranks with President Nicolas Maduro’s socialist government as protests and international condemnation grew.
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure says it will be widening the East Coast road along the old railway embankment.
A Commission of Inquiry has been constituted for the purpose: “To inquire into the circumstances surrounding the entry into, the interception, detention and subsequent release of an unnamed private maritime vessel in the sea space of the territory of Guyana on or between the 11th-14th of February 2017″, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said today.
Police this morning have found what appears to be human remains buried in a yard at Mibicuri north, Black Bush Polder, Corentyne, Berbice.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – President Jacob Zuma’s midnight sacking of his finance minister shook South African markets today, undermining his authority and threatening to split the African National Congress (ANC) that has governed since the end of apartheid.
(Trinidad Express) A shooting incident in the Western Division last night has left three people dead and two others injured.
A man from Mibicuri, Black Bush Polder, Corentyne, Berbice is in custody, having confessed to killing his wife and burying her body in their backyard, police say.
ExxonMobil yesterday officially announced the recent discovery of oil bearing sands at its Snoek well, in the Stabroek Block offshore Guyana, which was welcomed by the government.
President David Granger says that he before he pronounces on the matter surrounding Justice Franklin Holder’s complaint about attorney General Basil Williams’s “despicable” conduct in his courtroom he wants to hear Williams’s account of the events.
The Honourable Chancellor (ag.) Madam Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards, CCH. The High Court of the Supreme Court, Georgetown.
Two men, including a pastor, were yesterday each found guilty of separate charges of sexually assaulting a young girl.
Former Secretary General of the Guyana Commission to UNESCO Carmen Enid Peterkin Jarvis died on Wednesday night in Atlanta, USA.
Education Minister Dr Rupert Roopnaraine yesterday said Cabinet is considering the demands of those protesting against the placement of VAT on private tuition fees and a meeting will soon be scheduled with the Guyana Private Schools United to address the matter.
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