LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain will quit the EU single market when it leaves the European Union, Prime Minister Theresa May said yesterday in a decisive speech that set a course for a clean break with the world’s largest trading bloc.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama yesterday shortened the prison sentence of Chelsea Manning, the former U.S.
DAVOS, Switzerland, (Reuters) – Chinese President Xi Jinping offered a vigorous defence of globalisation yesterday, pushing back against the “America First” rhetoric of incoming U.S.
“The UK government cannot be allowed to take us out of the EU and the single market, regardless of the impact on our economy, jobs, living standards … without Scotland having the ability to choose between that and a different future,” said Sturgeon after May’s speech.
ROME, (Reuters) – A Rome court yesterday handed down eight life sentences for the murder of 23 Italian citizens in a conspiracy, known as Operation Condor, in which South American dictatorships hunted down and killed thousands of dissidents in the 1970s and 1980s.
Two women from the Dominican Republic pleaded guilty on Friday to overstaying their time in Guyana and were fined $30,000 each.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said yesterday he has been questioned by the country’s ethics watchdog in an unprecedented probe into a Bahamian holiday he took with the Aga Khan.
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) says it will be holding a Public Forum on the appointment of the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM), on Friday, January 20, 2017, commencing at 17:00 hours at the Umana Yana, Kingston.
The Ministry of Education today said that the Mashramani float parade this year will travel along Brickdam to D’Urban Park as was the case last year.
Effective February 1, 2017, agents and brokers will be required to pay new administrative and miscellaneous fees when conducting business with the Customs and Trade Operations (CE&TO), according to a statement from the GRA on Monday.
(Trinidad Guardian) An autopsy on the body of 16-year-old schoolgirl Rachael Ramkissoon yesterday revealed that she was strangled.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – The deep-sea search for missing Malaysia Airlines flight MH370 ended on Tuesday without any trace being found of the plane that vanished in 2014 with 239 people on board, the three countries involved in the search said.
A decision by bus operators to discontinue operating until the deplorable condition of the Coomacka Access Road is addressed has left an estimated 250 students living at Coomacka Mines, in Region 10, unable to travel to their school, which is located outside of the community.
Two men, including the stepson of Kawall Shivnauth, who was stabbed to death during an altercation one week ago at Leonora, West Coast Demerara were yesterday charged with the crime and remanded to prison.
The army’s move to enforce a strict policy against members having clearly visible tattoos has left one potential recruit with dashed hopes as he says he is unable to pay the huge cost to have his ink removed.
In the near future, maintenance of irrigation canals and outfalls within the capital will be the responsibility of the Georgetown Drainage Authority, a new entity comprising representatives of the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Georgetown City Council, National Drainage and Irrigation Authority and the Ministry of Communities.
A Guyanese man who gained residency in Canada in 2009, lost it after immigration officials found that he was no longer eligible as he spent most of his time in Guyana and his appeal of that decision was subsequently thrown out.
Workers from the City Engineer’s Department yesterday dismantled the frame of a wooden structure on Arapaima Street in Ruimveldt, which would have constituted an expansion for a car wash on the government reserve.
The police in Berbice are investigating a series of home invasions in the Corentyne area on Saturday evening, Commander of ‘B’ Division Ian Amsterdam has said, though no arrest has yet been made.
After persons lit a fire at the Bartica dumpsite, which spread to almost the entire landfill, Mayor Gifford Marshall says the municipality will embark on a sensitizing programme to ensure that residents are adequately informed on the proper waste disposal methods.
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