Youth charged with stealing $1M in cash, ring from boss
A Laing Avenue youth was yesterday charged with stealing a ring and cash, valued at $1 million in total, from his boss.
A Laing Avenue youth was yesterday charged with stealing a ring and cash, valued at $1 million in total, from his boss.
Truck driver Roopnarine Hardiwar, who was on trial for causing the incident at Pearl, East Bank Demerara that left a pedal cyclist dead in 2014, was yesterday found guilty and sentenced to three years in jail.
EAST OF MOSUL, Iraq (Reuters) – Advancing Iraqi troops broke through Islamic State defences in an eastern suburb of Mosul yesterday, taking the battle for the insurgents’ stronghold into the city limits for the first time, a force commander said.
The police have not yet made any arrests in relation to the last Thursday’s drive-by shooting in Sophia during which Kevin Inniss was shot dead and his friend injured.
CARACAS (Reuters) – A senior US diplomat yesterday met with Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro as part of an effort to support dialogue between the government and the opposition amid an escalating political standoff and a worsening economic crisis.
GRAND RAPIDS, Mich/KENT, Ohio (Reuters) – Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump called Democratic rival Hillary Clinton a threat to the country yesterday, saying that if she is elected a probe into her emails could shadow her entire term in office, as the latest Reuters/Ipsos poll showed Clinton’s lead narrowing slightly.
Oral Health Month is being launched today with an Oral Health Fair and free dental treatment.
PARIS (Reuters) – French riot police swooped on a makeshift migrant camp in northeast Paris yesterday, sparking a brief standoff at a site where numbers have soared since the closure of the Jungle shanty town in the northern port city of Calais.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan food company Polar, the South American nation’s largest private firm, yesterday denounced harassment by state intelligence agents who have been stationed at the gates of its headquarters since late last week.
The Saraswati Vidya Niketan, on Friday, benefited from a donation of 284 books from the High Commission of India.
BEIRUT (Reuters) – Syria’s army said yesterday the Nusra Front and what the army called other terrorist groups had killed 84 people, mostly women and children, in Aleppo during the past three days, in a bombardment that included chemical weapons and rocket fire.
A statement from the Ministry of the Presidency follows: The Ministry of the Presidency refutes the deliberately misleading and malicious letter, which was carried in the Monday, October 31, 2016 edition of the Guyana Times, titled “Crime will be with us for the foreseeable future”, in which the author misquoted His Excellency President David Granger, in an attempt to create mischief in the society.
Leguan, Region Three residents, for the first time, are benefiting from asphaltic roads, GINA said.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – A top U.S. diplomat will travel to Venezuela today to support talks between the government and the opposition meant to ease an escalating political standoff amid a worsening economic crisis.
Nearly 14 months after he took office, Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley has reshuffled his Cabinet.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – The Lebanese parliament elected former army commander Michel Aoun as president on Monday, ending a 29-month presidential vacuum as part of a political deal that is expected to make Sunni Muslim leader Saad al-Hariri prime minister.
Friday’s sitting of the National Assembly will hear a motion in the name of PPP/C MP Irfaan Ali calling for an immediate forensic audit into the Georgetown City Council including the controversial parking meter project.
As of October 22, sugar production for the second crop was 70,574 tonnes, just over half of the revised target of 137,764 tonnes with just about six weeks grinding left and signalling a likely significant fall in output compared to last year.
It is suspected that arson was the cause of the fire that ravaged a building at Lot 101 Cummings Street on Saturday night, causing damage to three business places in the process, says Fire Chief Marlon Gentle.
On October 25, Roger Gautier was assaulted by a minibus driver following an accident on the East Bank Demerara and in full view of a Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank, who sat by and watched the scenario unfold.
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