With self-professed drug trafficker Barry Dataram and his common-law wife Anjanie Boodnarine once again failing to appear for a key ruling in their trial for cocaine trafficking, their lawyer yesterday told the trial magistrate that he was no longer representing them.
National Communication Network (NCN) news anchor Natasha Smith was not told to retract her statement attributing her removal from on air to her pregnancy, only to consider modifying it, according to communications consultant Abraham Poole.
Late Ombudsman, retired Justice Winston Moore was yesterday remembered as an intellectual, an outstanding public servant, a role model, a family man and a staunch upholder of the rule of law.
Health services offered by the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) got a boost from the Chinese Government yesterday with a donation of US$420,000 worth of medical equipment and supplies.
YARI PLAINS, Colombia, (Reuters) – Colombia’s FARC rebel group voted unanimously to approve a peace deal with the government yesterday, declaring an end to the five-decade war as it prepares to transition into a new political party.
A drive down De Hoop Road reveals miles upon miles of picturesque scenery: ploughed, burnt and irrigated fields, with houses dotting the landscape.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Warplanes bombed Aleppo yesterday with what residents described as unprecedented ferocity after the Russian-backed Syrian army announced an offensive to fully capture Syria’s biggest city, killing off any hope of reviving a ceasefire.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil Supreme Court Judge Teori Zavascki approved a preliminary investigation into plea bargain deal allegations from former Transpetro head Sergio Machado that cite President Michel Temer and Senate President Renan Calheiros, among others, the court said yesterday.
Caribbean Aqua Terrestrial Solutions (CATS), supported by funding from the German government, handed over an aluminium boat and 50 HP four-stroke Yamaha outboard engine to the Mahaica River Birding Tour Group yesterday.
Following a high volume of complaints from city residents and businesses over its poor service since resuming garbage collection, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) has rehired one of the firms it had dropped to once again handle the job in the central business district.
Sugar union GAWU yesterday reaffirmed its position that GuySuCo had kept it and sugar workers in the dark about plans to grow rice on the Wales estate and it called for the feasibility study to be made public to determine if the corporation was being “penny-wise and pound-foolish.”
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Democrat Hillary Clinton had a four-percentage point advantage in support over Republican Donald Trump ahead of their first U.S.
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – Haiti’s October presidential election will be important to easing poverty, acting President Jocelerme Privert told the United Nations General Assembly yesterday, as the United States toughens its stance toward a wave of Haitian immigrants.
CHARLOTTE, N.C., (Reuters) – Protesters took to the streets of Charlotte, North Carolina, for a fourth night yesterday, calling on law enforcement to “release the tapes” of the fatal police shooting of a black man, hours after the victim’s family released its own video.
Two employees of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) were robbed in an armed attack yesterday afternoon in front the agency’s Brickdam office.
Suriname is facing an economic crisis that has seen swingeing inflation and deepened by slumping commodity prices, according to an Associated Press (AP) report.
SANTIAGO, (Reuters) – The Chilean government on Friday said it signed a US$100 million loan agreement with the Inter-American Development to help the South American nation fight corruption and improve transparency in both the public and private sectors.
The Department of Labour has launched an investigation into the death of a construction worker, who was electrocuted and fell off of a three storey building at Diamond, East Bank Demerara.
Today at about 12:50h, the police say that two armed suspects committed a robbery on two employees of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), in the process they escaped with a handbag containing $10,000, one iPad, an electronic dictionary and some documents.
The Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) today said it had decided to seek conciliation at the Ministry of Labour on the deadlock with the government over pay for public servants.
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