As calls continue to be made for marijuana use to be decriminalized, President David Granger says government will contradict itself if it concedes to this given that it has already taken a position on smoking in public places and will on Thursday be tabling legislation in this regard.
Government’s holding company NICIL acted as an agent for the sale of Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) properties, and in 2010 sold properties to then Prime Minister Sam Hinds and then Housing Minister Irfaan Ali, among others, and in some cases, this was without
President David Granger say that he sees no “justification or need” to rescind the controversial Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) inked by government with Fedders Lloyd for the specialty hospital project.
Thirty-two Rupununi women have successfully completed a ‘Self-Reliance and Success in Business’ workshop held at the Indigenous Peoples Conference Hall in Lethem, Region Nine, under the auspices of the Office of the First Lady.
The 2016 National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations will be written on April 27 and April 28, a month after the traditional time for the annual sitting.
The Bauxite Company of Guyana Inc (BCGI) on Friday officially commissioned two wells in the Region Ten communities of Hururu and Bamboo Landing.
Almost two months after her only child was discovered dead in his Good Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home, Bibi Shaliza Hamid is hoping that the perpetrator/s will be apprehended soon.
President David Granger yesterday distributed 21 bicycles to children enrolled in the Sophia Literacy Programme at Congress Place, to assist them with transportation to school and also announced that the centre will receive a subvention to ensure its survival.
Climate change, one of the most pervasive environmental problems that has confronted human-kind, increases children’s vulnerability to hunger, malnutrition, water-borne diseases and other illnesses and threaten their basic rights.
PARIS (Reuters) – The global climate summit in Paris agreed a landmark accord yesterday, setting the course for a historic transformation of the world’s fossil fuel-driven economy within decades in a bid to arrest global warming.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Smarting from last weekend’s election defeat, President Nicolas Maduro warned yesterday of a “large-scale crisis” in Venezuela as a showdown looms between the socialist government and opposition-led legislature.
RIYADH (Reuters) – Saudi Arabian women voted for the first time yesterday in local council elections and also stood as candidates, a step hailed by some activists in the Islamic patriarchy as a historic change, but by others as merely symbolic.
Government is not expecting an answer to a request for a juridical settlement of the ongoing border controversy with Venezuela in the short term, according to President David Granger, who nonetheless is confident that United Nations (UN) Secretary General Ban Ki-moon is actively looking at the matter.
BOGOTA (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Scores of women rebel fighters were forced to undergo abortions under a policy of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia (FARC) in their five-decade war against the government, Colombia’s top prosecutor said on Friday.
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Nearly 90 people were killed during Friday’s clashes in the Burundian capital, the army said on Saturday, the worst outbreak of violence in Burundi since a failed coup in May.
Members of the Disciplined Forces, along with all other categories of public servants, can look forward to some sort of bonus from government before the year ends, President David Granger said on Friday last.
(Trinidad Guardian) – A 21-year-old Arima woman is now in police custody after stabbing her common-law husband to death during a domestic dispute, on Friday.
A Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara man lost his life last evening after he crashed into a tree around Letter ‘T’ Estate, Mahaica-Berbice.
CORONA, Calif (Reuters) – With tears in her eyes, Mohammad Halisi’s young daughter asked her father “Why are we bad?”
HOBART, Australia, CMC – Cricket Australia chief executive, James Sutherland, says he hopes West Indies cricket authorities “take on board” the recommendations of CARICOM’s Governance Review Panel.
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