Alness teen drowns
A teenage dental assistant of Alness Village, Corentyne, drowned on Sunday afternoon while on a swimming trip with friends.
A teenage dental assistant of Alness Village, Corentyne, drowned on Sunday afternoon while on a swimming trip with friends.
A Port Mourant, Corentyne man is now dead after the car he was returning home in slammed into a utility pole at Borlam Turn, Corentyne on Sunday evening.
The long delayed Local Government Commission (LGC) is no closer to being realised as both government and opposition have made no steps to resolve a stalemate over its composition.
A house at 125 Cummings Street, Buxton, East Coast Demerara, belonging to overseas-based Guyanese Cecily Dover was last evening destroyed by fire in a suspected act of arson.
The Lottery Control Commission, which is responsible for managing revenue from the lottery, appears to be defunct, with Minister Raphael Trotman, who is Chairman, saying that as far as he is aware it has not met since his appointment in July, 2015.
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has claimed that planned amendments to the Integrity Commission Act to include the proposed Ministerial Code of Conduct aims to place members of the executive in charge of enforcing the legislation but Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo has refuted it.
The partially decomposed body of an unidentified man was yesterday morning found tucked between the rocks at a sea shore in Johanna Cecelia, Essequibo Coast, and while foul play is not suspected, police are awaiting the results of an autopsy.
Six members of a gang, including an accused in last year’s Princess Hotel Casino robbery and the son of a Superbet agent, suspected to have committed a spate of armed robberies over the past months have been arrested by the police and are likely to be charged today.
Minister of State Joseph Harmon says government is open to meeting with the Private Sector Commission (PSC) to discuss whatever issue it wants addressed.
Senior officials from the Caribbean Com-munity (Caricom) and Japan are expected to meet in Guyana today to attend the 18th Caricom-Japan Consultation to discuss the strengthening of cooperation.
A husband and wife were taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital for medical attention last evening after their motorcycle was struck from behind on the Railway Embankment at Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
Caribbean Airlines advised yesterday that it had cancelled the following flights, due to the impending snow storm in the New York area: According to a press release from the airline, passengers booked and ticketed to travel between today and Thursday, will be permitted to make changes to their reservations without penalty subject to the following conditions: “Passengers must already be in possession of a ticket with confirmed reservations issued on or before Saturday, March 11, 2017.
The Pan Caribbean Partnership Against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP) last week concluded its Fifth meeting of National AIDS Programme (NAP) Managers and Key partners with a call for civil society to be more involved in the fight against HIV/AIDS.
ANKARA (Reuters) – Turkey said yesterday it would suspend high-level diplomatic relations with the Netherlands after Dutch authorities prevented its ministers from speaking at rallies of expatriate Turks, deepening the row between the two NATO allies.
A Philipai Upper Mazaruni River, who was wounded on November 25, 2015, found himself on the other side of the law on Friday, after he was charged with wounding his alleged assailant.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court is likely to begin ordering the release next month of suspects in the country’s biggest corruption investigation who have been held for months without being brought to trial, a senior judicial source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
WASHINGTON/CAIRO (Reuters) – Russia appears to have deployed special forces to an airbase in western Egypt near the border with Libya in recent days, US, Egyptian and diplomatic sources say, a move that would add to US concerns about Moscow’s deepening role in Libya.
Three bandits, who were all armed, attacked a New Amsterdam market vendor during the wee hours of yesterday morning.
A Charlestown resident, who is on trial over allegedly having 106 grammes of cannabis in her possession for the purpose of trafficking, is due to learn her fate tomorrow, when a verdict is expected.
(Trinidad Guardian) Gang leaders and rogue elements have been extorting money from Ministry of Works and Transport contractors, stalling several road projects across the country.
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