Weeks after Mayor of Georgetown Patricia Chase-Green said City Hall will act on government advice on the controversial parking meter deal, a meeting has finally been set for the city council to discuss the matter.
With Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon’s term coming to an end on December 31st this year, Guyana plans to approach him during next month’s 71st Regular Session of the United Nations General Assembly for a progress report on the country’s appeal for a juridical settlement of the border controversy with Venezuela.
Debt-ridden State sugar company, the Guyana Sugar Corporation Inc (GuySuCo) is selling more land on the East Coast Demerara and Georgetown and is inviting expressions of interest from prospective buyers.
Investment in education is key to ensuring that Guyana’s reaps the maximum benefits from its nascent petroleum industry and this would also boost other sectors of the economy and ensure all citizens benefit, a top Trinidad oil industry official has said.
As an additional 86 medical doctors on Saturday evening graduated from the Guyana/Cuba Medical Scholarship Programme, Minister of State, Joseph Harmon urged that they commit themselves to selfless and dedicated service.
Guyanese writer and Cultural Policy Advisor at the Ministry of Education, Ruel Johnson, has been selected to participate in the US’s International Writing Program (IWP) Fall Residency.
Students of the Grove Primary School will benefit from a rehabilitated access road when they return to school in two weeks’ time, GINA says.
A Shieldstown motorcyclist is in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital following an accident.
The Women in Mining Group, an initiative of employees of Guyana Goldfields Incorporated (GGI), on Friday donated school supplies to the children of the Joshua House Orphanage.
The National Commission on Disability (NCD) will in September begin a house-to-house survey to gather information on persons with disabilities in Region Six, GINA said.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – German Vice Chancellor Sigmar Gabriel said in an interview on Saturday that Chancellor Angela Merkel’s conservatives had “underestimated” the challenge of integrating record numbers of migrants.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States yesterday condemned the Venezuelan government’s decision to move Daniel Ceballos, a former opposition mayor accused of fomenting protests, to prison from house arrest and called for his immediate release.
(Trinidad Express) Police said Apphia Jenelle Quamina, 30, of 4th Street, Gentian Park West, Edinburgh South, Chaguanas, was at home doing laundry on Saturday morning when an armed, unknown assailant entered the house in search of another man.
SIRTE, Libya, (Reuters) – At least 34 Libyan fighters were killed and more than 180 wounded yesterday as they closed in on the last Islamic State militant holdouts in the coastal city of Sirte, according to a field hospital.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Karisma Hotels & Resorts has announced that it is ready to break ground in January 2017 for construction of the first three hotels earmarked in a US$900 million multi-hotel development at Llandovery, St Ann.
LIBREVILLE, (Reuters) – Supporters of Gabon’s President Ali Bongo and his chief rival both said yesterday they were set to win a presidential election that poses the most serious challenge yet to the Bongo family’s half-century rule in the tiny, oil-rich nation.
(Barbados Nation) The developers who came together to build the multimillion-dollar Four Seasons Resort and Private residences ten years ago have dissolved the company.
(Reuters) – Chicago police yesterday said they have arrested two brothers and charged them with the fatal shooting of basketball star Dwyane Wade’s cousin as she pushed a baby in a stroller, a murder that has stunned a city plagued by a surge in gang-related violence.
(Reuters) – Gaston strengthened into the first major Atlantic hurricane of the season yesterday, packing maximum sustained winds of 115 miles per hour (185 kph) with more powerful gusts but posing no threat to any land mass.
LAUDERHILL, Florida, CMC -The second Twenty20 International of the two-match series between West Indies and India ended in a no result at the Central Broward Regional Park stadium here today.
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