CARACAS (Reuters) – His finger on a rifle trigger and wearing an olive green hat, President Nicolas Maduro yesterday oversaw military exercises in crisis-wrought Venezuela, which he says is under threat of “imperialist” invasion due to its oil wealth.
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas said yesterday that if US president-elect Donald Trump goes through with plans to transfer Washington’s embassy in Israel to Jerusalem it will hurt the peace process.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump began a long holiday weekend that honours slain black civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr by attacking another rights activist and politician who had said he doesn’t see Trump as a “legitimate president”.
(Trinidad Guardian) – The desire to be the best in her studies may have caused 16-year-old Rachael Ramkissoon to wake up late on Friday morning after studying the night before and as a result she missed the school bus.
The Ministry of Communities is to approach the National Assembly to amend the provisions of the Municipal and District Councils Act so that the term for Mayors and Deputy Mayors will coincide with that of office holders in the Neighbourhood Democratic Councils.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – The state of Sao Paulo is considering transferring four leaders of Brazil’s most powerful drug cartel to federal prisons and stricter jail terms for 12 jailed leaders following an outbreak of gang-related violence across prisons, O Estado de S.
A small community in the Klein/Pouderoyen area, Phoenix Park is home to approximately 300 residents.
A total of eight persons were arrested yesterday after the police swooped down on a popular ‘drug yard’ at North Road, Bourda, Georgetown.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – West Indies Cricket Board president, Dave Cameron, has renewed his commitment to making the embattled regional body profitable, even as he announced a name-change of the organization to Cricket West Indies.
The Guyana Rice Producers Association (RPA) today condemned in the strongest possible terms, what it described as the “unilateral draconian increase” in land rent and other charges to farmers by the MMA-ADA.
(Trinidad Guardian) The desire to be the best in her studies may have caused 16-year-old Rachael Ramkissoon to wake up late yesterday morning after studying the night before and as a result she missed the school bus.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two Laventille brothers were ambushed as they slept at the La Pena Street home early yesterday morning in what relatives say was aimed at getting their home, which is prime vantage point for two warring gangs in the area.
With the AFC set to hold its National Executive Conference (NEC) later this month, party leader Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday stated that he will run for the position again amid signs that some of its members want those holding key positions in the coalition government to come off the party’s executive.
A fire last night devastated a Cummings Lodge, East Coast Demerara apartment complex, which had provided housing to scores of students of nearby tertiary institutions.
Police officers and prisoners travelling from Essequibo to Georgetown sustained injuries yesterday when the bus they were in crashed into the garage gate at Tiwari’s Drug Store at Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara, while avoiding a collision with a truck.
Shawn Thompson and Daniel Grant, the two Corentyne men who are accused of robbing the Good Life Supermarket on Tuesday evening, were yesterday remanded to prison after facing charges for the robbery and other crimes.
The Alliance for Change (AFC) stands by President David Granger’s rejection of the six nominees submitted by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo for the position of Chairperson of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) and party leader Khemraj Ramjattan says the Head of State doesn’t have to give a reason.
The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) is convinced that Guyana sold its vote on the United Nations resolution on funding for a Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender and Intersex (LGBTI) rights envoy to the Organization of Islamic Cooperation (OIC).
The Trinidadian manager of Club Privilege was yesterday fined $15,000 after he was hauled before a city court for overstaying in Guyana.
Caesar Gonsalves, the man who police arrested after the discovery of a high-powered rifle in an apartment complex at Turn Drive, East La Penitence, South Georgetown on Thursday, was yesterday charged and remanded to prison.
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