CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared a 60-day state of emergency yesterday due to what he called plots from within the OPEC country and the United States to topple his leftist government.
(Trinidad Guardian) Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke spent the night on Wednesday in police custody after being detained in relation to a rape allegation made by an attorney working with his organisation.
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Mobs in Venezuela have stolen flour, chicken and even underwear this week as looting increases across the crisis-hit OPEC nation where many basic products have run short.
Aubrey Price, who is accused of robbing a tourist of a quantity of cash and other items, was yesterday remanded to prison.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Obama administration told U.S. public schools on Friday that transgender students must be allowed to use the bathroom of their choice, upsetting Republicans and raising the likelihood of fights over federal funding and legal authority.
Serojanie Ramkarran, the 71-year-old who was discovered dead at her Zeelugt, East Bank Essequibo home on Tuesday morning, died as a result of cardiac arrest, according to an autopsy.
The Guyana Police Force has advised that the Berbice Bridge Company Inc.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Hezbollah’s top military commander Mustafa Badreddine has been killed in a blast at a base near Damascus airport, the Lebanese Shi’ite group said yesterday, one of the biggest blows to its leadership the Iranian-backed organisation has ever sustained.
DAKAR, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Two former students from Burkina Faso have designed a mosquito-repellent soap, which they hope could be a simple and affordable solution in the fight to end malaria, but more funds are needed to test the idea, according to the startup behind it.
The Indian Action Committee (IAC) will on Sunday be holding its annual Mela in Berbice to commemorate the arrival on East Indians in Guyana, at the University of Guyana’s Tain Campus, Corentyne.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Researchers who dove hundreds of times into a sinkhole beneath the brown murky waters of Florida’s Aucilla River have retrieved some of the oldest evidence of human presence in the Americas including stone tools apparently used to butcher a mastodon.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro declared a 60-day state of emergency today due to what he called plots from within the OPEC country and the United States to topple his leftist government.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – Sir Curtly Ambrose has been replaced as West Indies bowling consultant, just over a month after helping the regional team to the capture of the Twenty20 World Cup in India.
A delegation of rice farmers from the Essequibo Coast met with Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo today and discussed various problems, GINA said.
The Guyana Police Force is informing the general public that the Berbice Bridge Company Inc.
(Trinidad Guardian) Public Services Association (PSA) president Watson Duke spent the night in police custody after being detained in relation to a rape allegation made by an attorney working with his organisation.
President David Granger yesterday declared that the nation’s future depends on wider political inclusiveness and challenged the National Assembly to take a lead in the process.
Former UG Professor Perry Mars died last night after being found beaten and tied in his Prashad Nagar residence.
A Haslington, East Coast Demerara shopkeeper was stabbed to death by his brother-in-law last night after a heated argument.
Preliminary investigations indicate that Monday’s devastating fire at the Gafoor’s Houston Com-plex was “accidental in nature”, according to Fire Chief Marlon Gentle.
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