After the invitation for bids for the rehabilitation of the pumps at Trafalgar, West Coast Berbice was cancelled, several prospective bidders fear that the contract has been sole sourced since works are already ongoing.
A young woman who was pardoned under President David Granger’s amnesty and a former resident of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) both of whom are into poultry rearing, along with a young man who has started a honey business, are just three of 100 persons who have benefited under the Government’s Sustain-able Livelihood and Entrepreneur Development (SLED) Initiative.
Two men have been arrested following a chopping spree in Angoy’s Avenue on Sunday afternoon that left one man fighting for his life, while two others had a hand and an ear severed.
A member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) is currently a patient at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) nursing a single gunshot wound to his right abdomen, after being shot last Saturday in South Ruimveldt Gardens.
Police are now looking for a man who torched the De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara home of two of his sisters yesterday.
An American woman, who is wanted in the United States, was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in a local jail for forging a passport and trying to use it to bypass immigration officials.
Jamaican national Easton Stapleton, who attempted to mail cocaine hidden in deodorant and markers, was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail and fined $1.4 million for the crime.
The Essequibo toddlers, who were suffering from the mystery illness that claimed the life of their six-year-old sister, have been discharged from the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH).
The trial of Linden driver Ron Cole, who is charged with causing the death of traffic officer Nakosi ‘Kelvin’ La Fleur, who was struck down while on duty, continued yesterday with testimony from two more witnesses.
BEIJING (Reuters) – China today launched the world’s first quantum satellite, which will help it establish “hack-proof” communications between space and the ground, state media said, the latest advance in an ambitious space programme.
A Laing Avenue man, who was charged with stealing over $500,000 in jewellery in two armed robberies, was yesterday freed.
A Houston man was yesterday sentenced to 18 months in prison for breaking into a woman’s home because she gossiped about him.
President of the newly created Guyana Market Vendors Union (GMVU) Eon Andrews said the union is awaiting recognition by the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) before moving forward to have pressing issues affecting vendors addressed.
MOSCOW (Reuters) – Russia and the United States are close to starting joint military action against militants in Syria’s Aleppo, Russian news agencies yesterday quoted Defence Minister Sergei Shoigu as saying.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US officials said yesterday that 15 inmates from the Guantanamo prison were transferred to the United Arab Emirates, the single largest transfer of Guantanamo detainees during President Barack Obama’s administration.
Associated Construction Services (ACS), a local construction company, on Saturday, in the new town of Bartica, commissioned a $150 million asphalt plant capable of producing 300 tonnes of asphalt on a daily basis.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s approval rating fell to a nine-month low of 21.2 per cent in July amid calls from government critics for a recall referendum next year, according to a local pollster Datanalisis.
The Step Right Ballroom Dancing School of Linden, Region Ten held its fifth ballroom exhibition, at the LINMINE Constabulary Hall on Saturday, as it seeks to reintroduce the art among the region’s youth.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A wildfire that spread into a small Northern California town over the weekend has destroyed more than 175 homes and businesses, authorities said yesterday, as crews fought to save more dwellings from the flames.
(Trinidad Guardian) – US actor Danny Glover, former independent senator Rev Daniel Teelucksingh, Jamaican sprinter Shelly-Ann Fraser-Pryce and Caribbean journalist Richard Anthony Best, are among 11 people selected to receive honorary degrees in October from the University of the West Indies.
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