Opposition mounted yesterday to a pension bill for former PNC Prime Minister Hamilton Green with Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) calling for its withdrawal and describing it as vulgar, political partisan and reeking of cronyism.
By Jonelle Fields A Tuschen Housing Scheme man died after he was stabbed in the neck by a sixteen-year-old on Saturday night following a confrontation over a woman at Eccles.
Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran has accused Attorney General Basil Williams of “shredding the constitution” by stating that President David Granger has discretion in deciding whether to appoint judges recommended by the Judicial Service Commission (JSC).
Over 2,400 workers of the Rose Hall Estate, Canje fear being displaced amid reports about the entity going out of cane operations under the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) diversification plans.
PARIS, (Reuters) – French voters defied expectations yesterday by throwing ex-president Nicolas Sarkozy out of the race to be the conservatives’ nominee for the presidential election and propelling his ex-prime minister Francois Fillon to top spot.
A Parfait Harmonie mother has succeeded in her quest to stop the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) from repossessing her house and has also been awarded $200, 000 in damages.
A blaze suspected to be electrical in nature gutted a mobile phone shop on Regent Street yesterday but swift action by members of the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) led to the saving of several businesses located in the same building.
PUKHRAYAN, India/NEW DELHI, India (Reuters) – At least 119 people were killed and more than 150 injured when an Indian express train derailed in northern state of Uttar Pradesh yesterday, with the toll set to rise amid a scramble to locate survivors.
A brawl between the occupants of a car and a minibus over a broken side view mirror last night left two men injured and worrying over the fate of a friend who they said was left behind in the melee as they fled for safety.
LES CAYES, Haiti, (Reuters) – Haiti held a long-delayed election yesterday amid scenes of devastation in parts of the country, with voters hoping a new president will lift the economy after a destructive hurricane and more than a year of political instability.
Retired judge James Patterson says it will take a large scale operation as well as money to fix the broken prison system and is urging the public to be patient with the process as it cannot be done in the short term.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – Angela Merkel announced yesterday she wants to run for a fourth term as German chancellor in next year’s election, a sign of stability after Britain’s vote to leave the European Union and the election of Donald Trump as the next U.S.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday he hopes for an improvement in relations with nemesis the United States after Donald Trump’s White House win, despite last year calling the real estate tycoon a “bandit and thief.”
(As part of its 30th anniversary being observed today, Stabroek News revisited the Stabroek Market for which it is named and spoke to some of its stallholders) For 135 years, the Stabroek Market, with its peaked clock tower and steel-framed structure has sat at the edge of the Demerara River, hovering over downtown Georgetown like a prayer.
An intoxicated 20-year-old resident of Grant 1805 Crabwood Creek, Corentyne (CWC) who struck down three sexagenarians about 17:10 hrs.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – A police helicopter in Rio de Janeiro crashed Saturday evening, killing four officers after a day of intense firefights between law enforcement and suspected criminals in the slum known as City of God.
A 55-year-old deportee who served a lengthy prison term in the U.S.A.
The Police say they are investigating the murder of Intaz Alli, 22 yrs , an excavator operator, of 1 21 “BB” Eccles EBD, by a sixteen year old male from the said community.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has accused Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissesar of slandering the country and marring its reputation with her statements linking him to a find of US$2 million by customs officers.
As dangerous contraband continues to be smuggled into jails, Director of Prisons (Ag) Gladwin Samuels says the Guyana Prison Service has identified several possible measures, including the installation of body scanners, and hopes to act on them as money becomes available.
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