By mid-month around 40 staffers from the Mayor and City Council’s (M&CC) Information Technology (IT) Department and Treasurer’s Department among others would have received training for a modernised computerised system at City Hall.
Three persons residing along the East Bank Demerara are the latest cases of the mosquito-borne Zika virus in Guyana.
The Guyana Water Inc (GWI) is continuing to work with the Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region 9 to provide assistance to communities there suffering from the current dry weather conditions.
Two men were yesterday remanded to prison after they appeared in a city court charged with committing two robberies on the same day and location.
Minister of Public Telecommunications and Tourism Catherine Hughes yesterday handed over to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, a series of retractable banners, which would be used to promote Guyana at embassies and consulates worldwide.
On February 24th, Guyana Goldfields Inc./AGM Inc. hosted its annual $20M Children’s Needs Development Initiative at the Herdmanston Lodge as part of its Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) programme.
A Timehri teenager, who was released only five days ago on another charge, was yesterday jailed for six months after he pleaded guilty to robbing two persons of their cellphones.
The Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) will begin an Outreach Programme in Region Three later this month and plans to target the Essequibo Coast, Linden, Berbice and Bartica in the coming months.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A flight attendant fled when she was selected for a random screening at Los Angeles International Airport, prompting a search that turned up 66 pounds (30 kg) of cocaine in her carry-on bags, a Drug Enforcement Administration spokesman said yesterday.
(Reuters) – Retired neurosurgeon Ben Carson signaled yesterday he was quitting the Republican presidential race, leaving three candidates facing Donald Trump as the party establishment struggled to find a way to halt the outspoken businessman.
BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Mining company Samarco and its owners, BHP Billiton and Vale SA , reached a deal with the Brazilian government yesterday to pay an estimated 20 billion reais ($5.1 billion) in damages over 15 years for a deadly dam spill in November.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – A majority of Brazil’s Supreme Court voted to accept corruption charges against lower house speaker Eduardo Cunha yesterday, putting him on trial for allegedly accepting bribes on contracts for two drill ships leased by state oil company Petrobras.The
UNITED NATIONS, (Reuters) – North Korea faces harsh new U.N. sanctions to starve it of money for its nuclear weapons programme following a unanimous Security Council vote yesterday on a resolution drafted by the United States and Pyongyang’s ally China.
Very soon the output from the Mazaruni Prison Farm will make the country proud.
NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – All but one nation in the Americas have criminal defamation laws that can be used against journalists to suppress freedom of expression, according to a report released on Wednesday.
(Reuters) – Top U.S. airlines yesterday said they were seeking regulatory approval to start flying specific routes to Cuba, ramping up competition over a limited number of opportunities to serve one of the industry’s last frontiers.
BOGOTA, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A Guatemalan court yesterday ordered two former military officers convicted of holding indigenous women as sex slaves during the nation’s civil war to pay their victims just over $1 million in compensation.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The government of Honduras has agreed to take steps to strengthen and protect intellectual property rights after negotiations with the United States, the U.S.
KINGSTON, (Reuters) – West Indies all-rounder Andre Russell has committed an “anti-doping whereabouts” rule violation, the Jamaica Anti-Doping Commission (JADCO) told Reuters today.
A Board of Inquiry will be set up to investigate recent claims made by self-confessed drug trafficker Barry Dataram of the alleged involvement of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) in the drug trade and corruption, President David Granger revealed today.
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