SIRTE, Libya, (Reuters) – Crouching on a rooftop, Libyan truck driver Riyad Swaid takes aim through breeze blocks at positions held by Islamic State fighters a few hundred metres away in the city of Sirte.
A man was yesterday afternoon shot during a robbery at Foulis, East Coast Demerara, where it is suspected that his friend, who is a businessman, was the intended target.
(Trinidad Express) Former Prime Minister Patrick Manning has been diagnosed with Acute Myeloid Leukemia, an aggressive form of bone marrow cancer.
(Barbados Nation) Plans to make it mandatory for Barbadians to be fingerprinted when leaving or entering the island’s air and sea ports have been deemed unconstitutional.
The Guyana Police Force has not yet been unable to identify the body that was found in the aftermath of a house fire at Wales, West Bank Demerara on Thursday morning.
FLORENCE, Italy, (Reuters) – Violent clashes broke out this week between police and the local Chinese community in Prato near Florence in central Italy, home to one of the largest concentrations of Chinese-run industry in Europe.
A South Sophia youth was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of ganja trafficking after police say he was found with a quantity of the drug on him.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – Murders in El Salvador plunged 51 percent in June compared with the same month last year, police said on Friday, attributing the drop to new government security measures even as gangs pointed to a recent truce to explain the decline.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A new indictment against a Macau billionaire developer accused of bribing a former U.N.
The International Children’s Heart Foundation has completed 13 surgeries and 14 interventional procedures during its fifth mission to Guyana.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s air force flew tons of grain to the southern state of Oaxaca yesterday as protests by teachers opposed to education reform spread across the country and road blocks led to dwindling food supplies in some remote regions.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazilian police yesterday raided offices of pulpmaker Eldorado Celulose controlled by the billionaire Batista family, a company spokesman said, in the latest stage of the country’s biggest-ever corruption investigation.
Former President Donald Ramotar today released a letter written to him by the Head of BK Inc Brian Tiwari on March 23rd last year pledging continuing support to the PPP and best wishes for the then upcoming general elections.
A man this morning chopped his wife and two-year-old child to death at Crane, West Coast Demerara and wounded his mother.
VIENNA, (Reuters) – Austria’s presidential runoff election must be held again, the Constitutional Court ruled today, handing the Freedom Party’s narrowly defeated candidate another chance to become the first far-right head of state in the European Union.
Businessman Brian Tiwarie yesterday rejected claims that his company had taken possession of containers belonging to the fired Specialty Hospital contractor and he accused the Donald Ramotar administration of grossly mismanaging the project.
The Kato Secondary School, which was constructed at a cost over hundreds of millions of dollars, remains unoccupied because it is not safe for children, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday.
There is a major structural fault with the $350m bridge constructed across the Hope Canal, East Coast Demerara, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon, who yesterday said the structure has repeatedly shifted away from the road.
After hours of deliberations, the National Assembly last night approved almost $800 million in extra-budgetary spending including on 6000 solar panels to “green” State House and an army exercise aimed at testing the preparedness of the Guyana Defence Force which was done last year.
Prominent businessman and owner of BK International, Brian Tiwarie, is planning to open his own newspaper company here and has started the process.
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