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President David Granger yesterday said that Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo will be given the clarifications he is seeking over the rejection of the nominees for chairmanship of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom).

The Chairman of Region Two, Devanand Ramdatt, yesterday charged that there is a lack of interest and a slow response by the government to flooding in the Pomeroon-Supenaam area but the CEO of the national drainage body has denied this.

Charles Chapman, called ‘Frenchie’, yesterday appeared before a city magistrate charged with the  murder of his former wife eight years ago.

The lawyer for New York-based Guyanese businessman, Ed Ahmad is seeking the deferral of his sentencing on fraud conspiracy charges to March of this year, according to court documents seen by Stabroek News.

President David Granger was yesterday paid a courtesy call by the Deputy Commander of the United States (US) Southern Command (SOUTHCOM), Lieutenant General Joseph DiSalvo at State House.

Barbers and cosmetologists who currently operate along the Merriman Mall between Cummings and Light streets are being removed from the area due to their failure to keep it clean, according to Mayor Patricia Chase-Green.

NEW YORK,  (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump escalated a fight with U.S.

BOSTON,  (Reuters) – A Massachusetts judge has refused to excuse Exxon Mobil Corp from a request by the state’s attorney general to hand over decades worth of documents on its views on climate change, state officials said yesterday.

A Guyanese man on Tuesday was sentenced to three months in prison in Barbados, after he was found guilty of assaulting two women, including his former girlfriend, according to the online newspaper Barbados Today.

As the police continue to investigate a shooting incident which occurred inside the Tower Suites’ Club Privilege on Sunday morning, it has been discovered that one of the three suspects has overstayed in Guyana.

LONDON,  (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mali has eliminated Guinea worm disease bringing the world a step closer to eradicating the debilitating parasitic disease that is now only endemic in three African countries, the U.S.-based

The city council is waiting on the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) to obtain the necessary funds to assist it with repairing the sinkhole that recently opened up on the seawall road, Kitty.

CHICAGO, (Reuters) – With a final call of his campaign mantra “Yes We Can,” President Barack Obama urged Americans on Tuesday to stand up for U.S.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Secretary of State nominee Rex Tillerson expressed views yesterday at odds with President-elect Donald Trump’s positions on key foreign policy issues like nuclear proliferation, trade deals, climate change and relations with Mexico.

While vendors have been allowed to sell in open spaces around the Stabroek Market once more, Mayor Patricia Chase-Green says City Hall did not waste money by removing them from the Stabroek Square last year.

The Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the murder charge against Colin Alleyne, the man accused of killing elderly Montrose caretaker Danrasie Ganesh, has been adjourned until next month, due to the final police witness being on 200 days’ leave.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Volkswagen AG has agreed to pay the largest ever U.S.

Less than a month after the toddler and cancer patient Omkar Persaud travelled to Cuba for emergency surgery to prevent him from going completely blind, tests have revealed that the cancer in his eye has not spread to his right eye.

LONDON,  (Reuters) – People with heightened activity in the amygdala, an area of the brain linked to stress, may be at greater risk of heart disease and stroke, scientists said yesterday in research that could lead to new ways to treat stress-related heart problems.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said yesterday he would maintain ownership of his global business empire but hand off control to his two oldest sons while president, an arrangement that watchdogs said would not prevent conflicts of interest in the White House.