Efforts to elect Mabaruma’s first Mayor and Deputy Mayor yesterday ended in a stalemate as the APNU+AFC and PPP/C, which are evenly split on the town council each voted for their respective candidate.
The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) is calling on Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield to investigate an incident where an overseer of the Local Authority Area allegedly refused to swear in two of the party’s members as councillors.
Despite claims by the opposition People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C), there has been no appointment of a new Commissioner-General for the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA).
A 17-year-old boy was shot in his jaw by bandits during a $7 million robbery in the Rosignol Market yesterday morning.
A would-be thief ended up behind bars yesterday after he snatched a gold band from the hand of rural constable and did not count on the chase that ensued.
PALMYRA, Syria (Reuters) – Islamic State militants retreating from Palmyra laid thousands of mines that they planned to set off simultaneously as the army moved in, a Syrian officer told Reuters in the ancient city after its recapture from the jihadist fighters.
HAVANA (Reuters) – Hundreds of Cubans protested at the Ecuadorean embassy in Cuba on Friday, a day after the Andean nation announced they would need visas to enter the country as of December 1.
Bibi Safaora Salim, the woman who was arrested for allegedly making death threats against President David Granger on Facebook, was released on station bail on Friday evening.
SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) – The FBI’s method for breaking into a locked iPhone 5c is unlikely to stay secret for long, according to senior Apple Inc engineers and outside experts.
BAKU/YEREVAN (Reuters) – A new wave of fighting broke out in the Nagorno-Karabakh region yesterday, killing dozens and drawing international calls for an immediate ceasefire to stop violence spreading in the South Caucasus.
A report on the Linden Town Council elections published by this newspaper yesterday under the title ‘Carwyn Holland is Linden’s new chief citizen’ inadvertently excluded Councillor Loma Moseley of the group Linden 2025 among the list of councillors.
John Joseph, 64, died during the wee hours of yesterday morning in the North West District of Region One after police say he was stabbed with the arrow he shot at a man.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – His manners and dress are so impeccable that the man who may soon be Brazil’s next president is quietly known by political allies and enemies alike as “The Butler.”
BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgian police made a series of arrests of right-wing and anti-racist protesters in Brussels yesterday, and riot squads engaged in a tense confrontation with local youths in the district of Molenbeek.
KOLKATA, (Reuters) – West Indies skipper Darren Sammy has an uncomplicated approach to cricket and the affable all-rounder had a typically nonchalant view of the 22-yard pitch on which his team will face England in Sunday’s World Twenty20 final.
About 0630h. today, the police say that goldsmith Ramdat Singh, 42 years, and his son Ramdat Singh Jnr; 16 years, of Bush Lot, WCB, were in the process of setting up their stand at the Rosignol Market when two men armed with handguns held them up and demanded the bag with their jewellery.
About 0130h. today, the police say that John Joseph, 64 years, of Triangle Backdam, NWD, intervened in an argument between a man and his son at Triangle Backdam and shot the man with an arrow to his chest.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 13-week pregnant Belmont woman has been diagnosed with the Zika virus, even as new international research seems to be tightening the connection between the virus and the potentially devastating birth defect of microcephaly — a medical condition where babies’ heads are abnormally small.
Newly-elected Mayor of Georgetown Patricia Chase-Green said yesterday that she was pleased to be heading a council with a fair mixture of youth and experience.
Buoyed by the support of members of his constituency and the ruling coalition, alleged child molester Winston Harding was yesterday sworn in as a councillor of Georgetown, a post he has no intention of resigning.
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