The University of Guyana (UG) and Ian Randle Publishers (IRP) of Jamaica have signed an agreement to establish a publishing arm of the university that will publish the scholarly work of faculty and student researchers.
The United States Transporta-tion Security Administration (US-TSA) on Friday donated two state-of-the-art portable Explosive Trace Detection machines, which can detect a range of substances involved in the creation of explosive materials and devices, to the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA), through the Ministry of Public Infrastructure.
BEIJING (Reuters) – The United States and China will work together to get nuclear-armed North Korea take “a different course,” US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson said yesterday, softening previous criticism of Beijing after talks with his Chinese counterpart.
A new company, Ramdihal and Haynes Chartered Accounting and Profes-sional Services Firm, has entered the local market with the aim of providing world-class services in anticipation of the country’s expected economic growth.
Two bandits pulled off a daring daylight robbery yesterday morning, invading a supermarket in Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara where they attacked the owner and escaped with an undisclosed amount of cash.
ABERDEEN, Scotland (Reuters) – Refusal by Britain’s prime minister to discuss an independence referendum would “shatter beyond repair” the United Kingdom’s constitutional structure, Nicola Sturgeon told her Scottish National Party yesterday.
DUBAI (Reuters) – Forty-two Somali refugees were killed when a helicopter gunship attacked their boat off Yemen on Thursday, the United Nations refugee agency said, and Somalia called on the Saudi-led coalition fighting in the country to investigate.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Fifteen corpses, three of them headless, have been found in a mass grave at a Venezuelan prison and more may be discovered, investigators said yesterday.
Staff of the Mercy Wings Vocational School in Sophia are pleading with the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) to address a leaning telephone pole in front of their building.
The Movement Against Parking Meters has expressed outrage that clamping of motor vehicles is still continuing despite an order yesterday by the Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan suspending the bylaws that were created for the project.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC — West Indies selectors today named a 16-man squad to face Pakistan in the upcoming four-match Twenty20 series in Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago.
(Trinidad Guardian) Government is making its second drawdown in less than a year from the Heritage and Stabilisation Fund (HSF), but a statement from the Ministry of Finance yesterday assured that the financial standing of the fund is sound, as in the ten months since money was first withdrawn, the fund had been able to recover to close to its original value.
Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan yesterday ordered the suspension of the by-laws for the city’s controversial metered parking system for 90 days as government effectively took the decision out of the hands of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) on bringing the project to a halt.
Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) Shalimar Ali-Hack has directed the reopening of the preliminary inquiry into the charge against Regan Rodrigues for the murder of political activist Courtney Crum-Ewing.
More than a year after it announced the end of sugar at Wales, the government yesterday sent its first high-level team to the West Bank Demerara community and heard demands for severance pay from former estate workers at a stormy meeting.
With questions mounting over the legality of recent drug purchases for the Georgetown hospital and the Guyana Trades Union Congress (GTUC) calling for a full investigation, Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence is expected to issue a second explanation to clarify the matter as the government faces a major controversy over the violation of procurement rules.
Cabinet has greenlit a US$1 million contract for the construction of overhead pedestrian crossings at three locations along the East Bank Demerara Highway.
Suspended Chairman of the Public Service Commission (PSC) Carvil Duncan says that the removal of free security, telephone and electricity benefits, which he had been entitled to since taking office in 2014, is politically-motivated and he plans to approach the High Court to have them restored.
A businessman and farmer of Moruca, North West District was brutally chopped to death yesterday morning while on his way to his farm, and the suspect, said to be of unsound mind, has been taken into custody.
Winston Haynes, one of three former soldiers accused of raping a young woman at Camp Stephenson, Timehri, was yesterday charged with the crime and he was granted his release on $600,000 bail.
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