GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – A Guatemalan Supreme Court judge was arrested yesterday accused of influence trafficking, prosecutors said, in the latest anti-corruption drive in the Central American country.
Around 1000 residents of Lima Sands on the Essequibo Coast are expected to receive potable water, for the first time, as the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) is in the process of installing an entire system comprising a well, transmission distribution and service connections to the community.
(Trinidad Guardian) A mathematics teacher was allowed to continue on $70,000 station bail on Tuesday, after she appeared in court charged with two sexual offences involving a female student.
HOUSTON/CANNON BALL, N.D., (Reuters) – The leader of a Native American tribe attempting to block the Dakota Access oil pipeline said on Wednesday the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe may have exhausted legal options to stop the project after the company building it won federal permission to tunnel under the Missouri River.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos yesterday called for a thorough investigation of allegations his 2014 re-election campaign may have received $1 million from a Brazilian firm embroiled in a wide-ranging corruption scandal.
A butt to the head and a ‘lash’ with a cutlass landed a miner in court, charged with assaulting a fellow miner.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s nominee for the U.S. Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch, today described the president’s Twitter attacks on the judiciary as “demoralizing” and “disheartening,” a spokesman for Gorsuch said.
President David Granger, Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Basil Williams, Minister of State, Joseph Harmon and Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan, this evening, met with Mayor of Georgetown, Patricia Chase-Green and Town Clerk, Royston King at State House.
A phone card distributor was this afternoon shot dead at Adventure, Berbice by a robber who relieved him of an undisclosed amount of cash and phone cards before escaping.
Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran says the proposed expansion of parking meters to a larger part of the city poses a frightening prospect for those who cannot pay and he suggested a campaign of civil resistance.
A 45-year-old domestic worker was last night shot and killed in her Tain, Corentyne home by a bandit.
(Trinidad Guardian) A mathematics teacher was allowed to continue on $70,000 station bail yesterday, after she appeared in court charged with two sexual offences involving a female student.
Coalition government partner the Alliance For Change (AFC) yesterday called on the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) to suspend metered parking to allow an independent review of its contract, while saying that the current arrangements do not appear to be in the best interest of the citizens.
The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Robert Benn, the contractor accused of shooting at a couple last year, officially ended with him being committed to stand trial for the crime.
A differently-abled man from Bush Lot Village, Corentyne, is now dead after the driver of a Guyana Beverage Company truck accidentally reversed over him yesterday morning.
Recommendations have been made to fill the top three positions of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC), Chairperson of the commission Carol Corbin has disclosed.
Investigations are ongoing into the death of an Adventure, Essequibo Coast man, who was on Monday night killed in a road incident.
A police officer is presently under close arrest after he shot a businessman, who claims that he approached the lawman’s parked vehicle along the Fairfield Public Road, East Coast Demerara, to enquire if any help was needed.
A hire car driver and former boxing coach of New Amsterdam, Berbice, yesterday appeared at the Albion Magistrate’s Court charged with causing death by dangerous driving on Monday.
After coming under fire in the past by members and supporters of the Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) community for not allowing transgender persons to enter his courtroom while cross-dressed, Magistrate Dylon Bess yesterday appeared to back down from his previous stand.
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