HENNIKER, N.H., (Reuters) – Campaigning for the Republican presidential nomination took a nasty turn on Wednesday with billionaire businessman Donald Trump accusing rival Ted Cruz of fraud as the field of candidates narrowed ahead of next week’s New Hampshire primary.
Two men were yesterday charged separately with possession of one gramme each of cannabis.
BASSETERRE, St Kitts, CMC – Off-spinner Sunil Narine has switched allegiance to reigning Caribbean Premier League champions Trinidad and Tobago Red Force in a move that will see him reunited with Indian Premier League franchise Kolkata Knight Riders.
ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) is refuting a suggestion that it forced veteran cricketer Shivnarine Chanderpaul to retire from international cricket so that he can play in the inaugural Masters Cricket League (MCL) T20 currently underway in Dubai, United Arab Emirates.
The Guyana Revenue Agency says that for the month of January it seized uncustomed goods with a revenue value of $20m.
The Ministry of the Presidency (MOTP) has denied that the hiring of contract workers has ballooned as reported in today’s Stabroek News.
(Trinidad Guardian) A Cascade man was gunned down while his wife was fighting for her life at hospital last night, having been beaten with a brick and chopped by the men who killed her husband.
Despite criticising former PPP/C administrations for subverting the public service through the heavy use of contract workers, the APNU+AFC Coalition government has not only continued the practice but has more than doubled the number of contract workers in some government agencies.
Five men are in police custody in connection with the robbery/murder of a 64-year-old man of Parika Sea Dam, East Bank Essequibo whose bound and gagged body was discovered around 6:20 am yesterday.
Andrew Hannibale, aged 45 years, of Benneth Dam, Rosignol , was remanded to prison yesterday after a charge of sexual activity with a girl under 15 years was laid against him.
With local government polls drawing closer, the candidates for Georgetown were unveiled yesterday and a fierce battle is expected in a new system where First-Past-The-Post (FPTP) voting can shake up the old order.
A man was yesterday sentenced to 25 years in jail after a jury found him guilty of raping a 12-year-old child.
Although Guyana has only recorded one case of the Zika virus, both regional and international partners have extended support to the Ministry of Public Health in the management and control of the virus, the ministry said in a statement released yesterday.
Saying she was sending a strong signal to drug traffickers, Berbice Magistrate Rhondel Weaver yesterday handed down a five-year jail sentence and a $61M fine to a taxi driver who was found guilty of trafficking over 90 pounds of marijuana.
Drug mule Quami Cumberbatch, who tried to board a plane to Barbados with cocaine hidden in his underwear and in his stomach, was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail and fined over $2 million in total for narcotics trafficking.
The PPP on Monday said some of its supporters were tricked into signing up as backers for APNU+AFC candidates for the upcoming local government elections.
The opposition will not submit nominees for membership on some state boards unless government assures that it will not be involved in their running, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo said yesterday.
A second woman has moved to the court to challenge a move by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) to repossess her home.
A minibus burst into flames yesterday morning along the Eccles Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
Unable to locate two key witnesses, the prosecution in the trial of Leon Duncan has moved to have their depositions admitted into evidence.
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