There is a grave need for the sensitization of children in residential care about their rights and responsibilities, according to a recent study, which also says that caregivers are being left in the dark about the reasons for some admissions.
A 53-year-old man is now dead following an accident that occurred on Sunday at Maria’s Lodge, Essequibo Coast.
One hundred and six indigenous villages and 2,000 of their youth in Guyana’s hinterland have been able to benefit from the Hinterland Employment Youth Service (HEYS) programme since it began almost a year ago.
A taxi driver sustained injuries when the car he was driving collided with a parked truck along the Bagotville, West Bank Demerara Public Road around 5 am yesterday.
President David Granger on Friday bade farewell to outgoing United Nations Resident Coordinator in Guyana and the United Nations Development Programme Resident Representative, Khadija Musa, who he said has served Guyana with distinction over the last four years.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuela’s election board said yesterday that the opposition successfully collected one per cent of voter signatures in every state in the first phase of their push for a referendum to recall socialist President Nicolas Maduro.
An Albouystown mason who had been remanded to prison on multiple charges of armed robbery stemming from gunpoint attacks in the vicinity of South Ruimveldt, was on Friday given an opportunity pleaded to the charges.
A murder charge now looms for Demico cook Alexis Turpin and her lover Stephon Barlow, following the death of Sherwin Johnson, the father of her child.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US Republican Donald Trump’s presidential campaign appealed to Capitol Hill for support yesterday as his attacks on the Muslim parents of a decorated American soldier killed in Iraq drew sharp rebukes from fellow party members.
A brutal attack on a woman by her estranged husband has left her nursing several wounds about her body and pleading for justice.
SIRTE, LIBYA/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US planes bombed Islamic State targets in Libya yesterday, responding to the UN-backed government’s request to help push the militants from their former stronghold of Sirte in what US officials described as the start of a sustained campaign against the extremist group in the city.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – US prosecutors announced an indictment yesterday of two former top officials at Venezuela’s anti-narcotics agency, including one who became the head of the national guard, over allegations that they took part in a cocaine distribution scheme.
An Airy Hall businessman was last Friday accused of stealing shop items from his mother.
ISTANBUL, TURKEY (Reuters) – America’s highest-ranking military officer sought on Monday to soothe strained ties with NATO ally Turkey, which was angered by the West’s response to a failed military coup and an apparent US reluctance to hand over the cleric it says was responsible.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Cuba said yesterday it was not willing to rush talks with the United States over multibillion-dollar claims and counter-claims and would agree only to an accord that addressed the grievances of both sides.
The Den Amstel Cultural Organisation (DACO), which conducted packed activities in observance of this year’s Emancipation Day celebration, ended yesterday evening with indoor games and musical entertainment.
The Caribbean Youth Environment Network (CYEN)-Guyana Chapter strives to strengthen environmental awareness among primary school children through its annual ‘Shaping Young Eco-Change Makers Day Camp.’
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Police restored order in a northern state of Brazil yesterday after three nights of violence unleashed by a criminal gang that set off bombs, torched dozens of buses and fired shots at government buildings, authorities said.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – When it comes to alleviating poverty and allowing people to live up to their potential, prize-winning Peruvian economist Hernando de Soto divides the world into two groups: the ones who have defined property rights and those who do not.
President David Granger today inspired a reconciliation at the Region Five council which had been riven by six months of protests over an alleged snubbing of the Head of State by Chairman Vickchand Ramphal.
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