LIMA, (Reuters) – The office of Peru’s attorney general has reopened a corruption inquiry into whether President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski helped a Brazilian company win public work contracts while he was prime minister a decade ago, legal documents showed yesterday.
The 1990s, the Queen’s Park Oval, West Indies playing – India, if memory serves, but mine is more likely to spit in my soup – and Carl Hooper slid down the wicket, like a cobra on cocaine, to lift some poor sap – Anil Kumble?
The Rotaract Club of Georgetown (RCG) on December 10, 2016 spread Christmas Cheer to 124 children drawn from their Sophia Literacy Programme (SLP) and seven orphanages in and around Georgetown, Greater Georgetown, Linden and the East Coast of Demerara, a release from the club said.
E.R. Braithwaite, the Guyanese author, educator and diplomat whose years teaching in the slums of London’s East End led to the international best-seller “To Sir, With Love” has died at age 104, The Associated Press (AP) reported today, Braithwaite’s companion, Ginette Ast, told AP that he became ill on Monday and died at the Adventist HealthCare Shady Grove Medical Center in Rockville, Maryland.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) today paid glowing tribute to Clive Lloyd, the former West Indies captain for his 50 years of service to the game.
A 21-year-old Guyanese man gunned down in New York in bed beside his girlfriend was killed over US$1,200 in stolen cash, sources said Monday, according to the New York Daily News.
PORT OF SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Former West Indies batsman Jimmy Adams is the new director of cricket for the West Indies Cricket Board, according to regional media reports.
(Trinidad Guardian) The completed autopsy into the cause of death for Shannon Banfield yesterday revealed the 20-year-old was smothered with a towel in the IAM and Company Limited warehouse where she was found.
A Number 79 Village cambio dealer was robbed of millions in cash and jewellery early yesterday morning when a gang of 14 men, who were heavily armed including with AK-47s, invaded his home.
The members of the special team being assembled to prosecute the alleged criminal offences stemming from the sale of land at the ‘Pradoville 2’ Housing Scheme have been chosen, Minister of State Joseph Harmon has revealed.
The project to build a wind farm at Hope Beach is moving forward but will have to be scaled down by at least 50%, according Lloyd Singh, one of the investors of Guyana Wind Farm Incorporated (GWFI).
A Berbice River resident is seeking answers and compensation from the Guyana Police Force and the Minister of Public Security after a group of policemen unlawfully occupied his home for several days when they were sent to the area to conduct drug raids.
Pleased by his ministers’ performance in 2016, President David Granger says there will be no reshuffling of the Cabinet.
Mexican Ambassador to Guyana Ivan Roberto Sierra-Medel told local rice farmers in Berbice last Thursday that a large market is available for their produce in Mexico, if they can gain a foothold.
None of the nominated prisoners have met the criteria to be pardoned this year, according to President David Granger.
In a bid to decrease the overcrowding at the jails around the country, President David Granger said his government is going to spend over $300 million to expand the Mazaruni Prison to accommodate about 500 more prisoners.
To mark the anniversary of Martin Carter’s passing in December 1997, Gemma Robinson looks at Carter’s work on independence from 1966.
A 42-year-old man was on Friday granted bail by a city magistrate after he was accused of fraudulently converting over $2 million in fish to his own use.
Newcomer Vickram Bharrat told the National Assembly on Thursday that the coalition government has “signalled its intention to kill sugar.”
The Camp Street prisoner who was reportedly injured by a prison warden after he allegedly refused to have a body cavity search conducted on him was released from the Georgetown Public Hospital and is back in prison recovering.
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