ASUNCION, (Reuters) – Paraguay yesterday recalled its ambassador to Caracas after Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro made disparaging remarks about Paraguay amidst a leadership dispute in South America’s Mercosur trade bloc.
President David Granger is scheduled to deliver the keynote address at the Cuffy250 Committee’s 4th annual “State of the African Guyanese Forum” tomorrow at the Critchlow Labour College, in Georgetown.
(Trinidad Express) A gunman wearing a motorcycle helmet to mask his identity entered Dougie’s Club on the Western Main Road, St James, early Thursday morning and shot bar owner Earl Douglas seven times about the body.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Brazil unfurled a vast canvas celebrating its rainforest and the creative energy of its wildly diverse population to the tune of samba, bossa nova and funk in welcoming the world on Friday to the Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC — Darren Sammy has been sacked as West Indies Twenty20 captain, four months after leading the region to unprecedented second T20 World Cup triumph.
The problems associated with the shifting Hope Canal Bridge located at Hope on the East Coast of Demerara are due to poor design and not the failure of the contractor, Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder says.
“Leadership is about the daily application of critical thinking, decision-making and problem solving.
(Trinidad Guardian) Determined not to let 14 years of marriage go down the drain, Ardia Yearwood-Marchan and Peter Marchan were trying to make life work.
Saying that any move to bar University of Guyana (UG) student loan defaulters from leaving the country would be illegal, President David Granger yesterday emphasised the need for more persuasive measures to be used to ensure repayments.
A damning report of a technical audit outlining numerous defects uncovered at the Kato Secondary School was yesterday presented to the National Assembly even as the firm responsible for the works defended its performance, while accusing the government of making the issue political and not requesting corrections as provided for in the contract.
A jury yesterday found a young West Berbice cane harvester guilty of killing his former partner.
A fisherman seriously wounded his former partner and her mother with a knife and cutlass around 10:40 pm on Wednesday at Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo before consuming a poisonous substance.
Ishwar Heeralall, 38, the man who allegedly chopped his estranged wife at the La Penitence Market, was yesterday charged with the crime and had his bail set at $600,000.
Photos by Orlando Charles A fire ripped through a section of a four-storey building at the corner of Avenue of the Republic and America Street yesterday morning, disrupting several small businesses and causing the destruction of tens of millions of dollars in goods.
Government is seeking parliamentary approval for over $2 billion in extra-budgetary spending including $501 million for BK International as part payment for an out-of-court $1.1 billion settlement, and $109.6 million in extra funding for the University of Guyana which the institution had been seeking.
Cabinet has given its no-objection to expenditure of $168.3m for facilitators under the Hinterland Employment Youth Service (HEYS).
Mark Sauers and Rolston Bacchus, who are accused of recruiting drug mules, were freed of the charges against them yesterday after the prosecution’s star witness in their trial recanted his testimony and claimed that he had struck a deal with the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) to lie on the witness stand in exchange for a reduced sentence.
The Region Six Regional Democratic Council (RDC) yesterday made a decision to take on full responsibility for the Amerindian Hostel located in Stanleytown, New Amsterdam, following reports of substandard conditions at the facility.
A man who was wanted by police was yesterday shot by ranks of the force during an attempt to apprehend him.
Matthew Stephen Lutchana, 19, an overseas-based Guyanese who fatally hit a pedestrian along the Number 51 Village Public Road on Monday, was yesterday charged with failure to render assistance and failure to stop at the scene of an accident.
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