The man who was shot and killed by police just over a week ago outside the Georgetown Prison has been positively identified as Shane Scipio, a resident of the night shelter and a former psychiatric patient.
A taxi driver died yesterday afternoon following an accident on the Railway Embankment at Plaisance, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
The National Toshaos Council (NTC) will now be able to enhance its capacity with the support of Conservation International Guyana (CI-Guyana), after the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the two organisations yesterday.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Federal police in Brazil urged prosecutors on Friday to bring corruption charges against former president Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva and his wife, Marisa, according to police documents seen by Reuters.
The Rotaract Club of Georgetown Central (RCGC) last Saturday distributed shoes, backpacks, stationery supplies and outdoor equipment to the Lima Sands Nursery and Primary schools.
PARIS, (Reuters) – A French court yesterday suspended a ban on women wearing full-body “burkini” swimsuits on a Mediterranean town’s beach but the prime minister said the debate was not over, calling the outfit a symbol of a “backwards, deadly Islamism”.
CARACAS/HOUSTON, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s state oil company, PDVSA, has relaunched a large tender for the drilling of 600 oil wells in the world’s largest crude reserves, sources with knowledge of the tender said this week, after a similar project collapsed last year amid concerns about transparency and political favouritism.
President David Granger on Thursday said he was assured by the performance of troops during the week-long field tactical exercise ‘Homeguard’ that the Guyana Defence Force remains ready to fulfil its mission.
NEW DELHI/ISLAMABAD, (Reuters) – When Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi met top aides to prepare last week’s annual Independence Day address, some senior bureaucrats warned him against mentioning Baluchistan, arch-rival Pakistan’s restive southwestern province.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – The Senate impeachment trial of suspended Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff descended into a shouting match between her political supporters and opponents during its second day yesterday, forcing a two-hour halt in the proceedings.
HARARE, (Reuters) – President Robert Mugabe warned protesters yesterday there would be no “Arab Spring” in Zimbabwe after anti-government demonstrations descended into some of the worst violence seen in the southern African nation for two decades.
Public Health Minister Dr George Norton last week turned the sod for the construction of a new health post at Kurutuku, in Region Seven.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – Paul Wolfowitz, a Republican adviser to former U.S.
TORONTO, (Reuters) – A Toronto bank robber known as the “fake beard bandit” was charged with three counts of first-degree murder after three people were killed in a crossbow attack in the city’s east end, police in Canada’s largest city said yesterday.
As of September 22nd, the court of Magistrate Judy Latchman will be temporarily relocated to the Arthur Chung Convention Centre, to accommodate the receipt of video evidence in a gold smuggling case.
FORT LAUDERDALE, Florida, CMC -Newly appointed captain Carlos Brathwaite leads a powerful West Indies team against India in two T20 Internationals in South Florida this weekend.
(Ministry of Public Telecommunications) A team led by Public Telecommunications Minister, Cathy Hughes, is on the way to China for talks with the principals of Huawei Technologies Co.
Embattled Minister of Public Health Dr. George Norton this morning pleaded with the public to give him another chance to “do better” as he apologised for giving false information to the National Assembly on the controversial Charlestown pharmaceutical bond and promised that he would conduct more “due diligence” in the future.
HARARE, (Reuters) – Zimbabwean police today fired tear gas at opposition leaders Morgan Tsvangirai and former vice president Joice Mujuru as a protest rally against President Robert Mugabe descended into violence, a Reuters witness said.
-Jagdeo says deal must be cancelled Public Health Minister Dr George Norton has presented Parliament with the contract for the controversial Charlestown drug bond but without signatures and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo last evening said nothing short of a revocation of the deal would suffice.
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