Kyle Archer, the Barbadian national who was last month sentenced to four years in jail for trafficking in cocaine, was also facing a charge of rape in his home country and his incarceration here has left his mother facing a three-month sentence if she doesn’t fork over half the amount that was set for his bail.
Stakeholders yesterday began a dialogue that is the first phase in the development of a “concept note” to be sent to the Global Fund as Guyana attempts to access US$3.9M in funding to fight HIV/AIDS.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Christopher Steele, who wrote reports on compromising material Russian operatives allegedly had collected on U.S.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – Talks to resolve the decades-old division of Cyprus ended without agreement yesterday but with a plan for officials to reconvene on Jan.
The accident that led to the death of GPL linesman Brian Clifford in Belvidere, Corentyne last Tuesday was a “freak accident” and could not have been predicted, says GPL’s PRO, who said that the utility pole that collapsed had been tested before being mounted by the worker.
A Charlestown woman was on Wednesday remanded to prison after she was charged with being in possession of 106 grammes of cannabis.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, under fire for holidaying on a Caribbean island owned by the Aga Khan, on Thursday revealed he had flown there by private helicopter – an apparent breach of official ethics rules.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela rounded up a dissident former general and two other regional politicians yesterday in what the opposition called a wave of repression by socialist President Nicolas Maduro’s government.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Obama administration said yesterday it was repealing a measure granting automatic residency to virtually every Cuban who arrived in the United States, whether or not they had visas, ending a longstanding exception to U.S.
Three youths were yesterday released on $50,000 bail each after they denied a charge that they stole an ATV in the interior.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s attorney general said on Thursday Brazilian construction company Odebrecht has made a verbal agreement to pay $59 million in reparations for bribes it paid in Panama to win business in the country between 2010 in 2014.
The trial of the three men accused in the Ramada Princess Casino robbery is set to start next month after several delays.
After having served for just over a year, the Chairman of NCN, Bish Panday has resigned effective December 31st, 2016, sources say.
(Reuters) – West Indies will host a full series, including three tests, against Pakistan beginning on March 31, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) has said.
US oil company ExxonMobil today announced positive results from its Payara-1 well offshore Guyana.
(Trinidad Guardian) Between 1996 and 2016, the Registrar General recorded 3,478 child marriages, with almost 98 per cent being females.
The Guyana Government has entered into a partnership which will see the establishment of a law school here, giving University of Guyana (UG) graduates the opportunity to complete their legal education studies hassle free and at a lower cost.
The Special Organized Crime Unit (SOCU) has in excess of 300 investigations pending and is unable to effectively tackle them with its current staff complement.
Ex-cop Carl Methuram, yesterday said that he saw Mark Royden Williams and Dennis Williams standing with guns in front of the Bartica Police Station, moments after hearing rapid gunfire coming from that direction.
A young couple, owners of the ‘Good Life Supermarket’, in Hampshire Village, Corentyne, were left in a traumatized state on Tuesday evening, after two masked men invaded their one-month- old business and robbed them of a quantity of cash.
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