The Women and Gender Equality Commission (W&GEC) in collaboration with the University of Guyana’s Institute of Gender Studies (UG-IGS) has embarked on a community outreach project across four regions to increase female leadership in decision-making.
A Canje man is currently critical at the Georgetown Public Hospital after he was struck on the head on Saturday evening by another man who hails from the same village.
BEIRUT/GENEVA (Reuters) – Syrian peace talks came close to collapse yesterday, with the mainstream opposition announcing a pause in talks at the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, although it agreed to keep its negotiating team in the city.
MACEIO/BRASILIA, Brazil (Reuters) – Dilma Rousseff is not the first Brazilian president forced to contemplate the loyalty of Renan Calheiros on the eve of her possible impeachment.
PORTOVIEJO/PEDERNALES, Ecuador (Reuters) – The death toll rose to 350 yesterday from a devastating earthquake that hit Ecuador at the weekend, as rescuers hunted for survivors, victims clamoured for aid and looting broke out in the Andean nation’s shattered coastal region.
Several streets around the capital city were flooded yesterday after early morning showers.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A member of a volunteer safety patrol in an Orthodox Jewish community in Brooklyn was charged yesterday with trying to bribe police officers to obtain gun licences, prosecutors said, in the latest fallout from a wide-ranging corruption probe into the New York City Police Department.
NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – An international court should be set up to punish those responsible for child labour and other forms of abuse against children, former British Prime Minister Gordon Brown told the United Nations yesterday.
HAVANA (Reuters) – US President Barack Obama’s visit to Communist-led Cuba was an “attack” on its history and culture aimed at misleading a new business class, Foreign Minister Bruno Rodriguez said yesterday, the latest sign of blow-back after the ground-breaking trip last month.
A second suspect was detained by the police on Friday for questioning into the murder of Crabwood Creek resident, Shameer Ally who was found dead in his house some seven months ago when police had visited to arrest him.
BERLIN, Germany (CMC) – Outstanding former Australia Test captain Steve Waugh believes the turmoil in West Indies cricket is a perfect example of the disruption the Twenty20 format has caused in the sport internationally.
President David Granger was among the first to have samples taken for the conduct of an Ancestry Deoxyribose Nucleic Acid (DNA) test in Guyana, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said today.
An elderly couple burnt to death on Sunday night after bandits broke into their home at Good Hope, East Bank Essequibo and set it alight.
A teenaged girl and her friend died in a three-vehicle smash-up on the Coverden, East Bank Demerara (EBD) public road after a SUV slammed into the motorcycle the duo was on early yesterday morning.
An Enmore, East Coast Demerara grandmother burned to death in her home during the wee hours of yesterday as her children and neighbours stood helplessly as the blaze ripped through the mostly wooden structure.
There should be by-elections in the local authority areas where there were deadlocks in the elections for the chairpersons, former chairman of the elections commission Edward Hopkinson says.
More than one month after remanded prisoner Shawn Thom died after complaining of feeling unwell, his family believes that the real circumstances surrounding his death have been concealed.
After eight years of dedication and hard work, a Glasgow couple was faced with a homeowner’s worst nightmare, a fire, of so far unknown origin, destroying their three-bedroom home, located at Lot 821 Glasgow Housing Scheme, New Amsterdam, Berbice, yesterday at about 10:15 am.
There is no evidence of transfer pricing as it relates to logs being exported from here to China, the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) has said.
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) is seeking a car crusher – estimated to cost $42m – to dispose of derelict vehicles.
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