PARIS, (Reuters) – World leaders will launch an ambitious attempt today to hold back the earth’s rising temperatures, urging each other to find common cause in two weeks of bargaining meant to steer the global economy away from dependence on fossil fuels.
TEMA, Ghana, (Reuters) – A power-generating ship was officially welcomed at Ghana’s main port yesterday after arriving the previous day in what Power Minister Kwabena Donkor said was a bid to keep the country on track to end chronic blackouts.
Commonwealth Heads of Government have expressed full support for the UN Secretary General to choose the means of a settlement of Guyana’s border controversy with Venezuela.
(Reuters) – The West Indian spinner Sunil Narine, the world’s top-ranked bowler in both forms of limited-overs cricket, has been suspended from bowling in internationals after his action was ruled to be illegal.
The Ministry of Finance last evening defended its selection of Indian firm Fedders Lloyd to undertake a review to restart construction of the specialty hospital, even as Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo charged that the move was a “massive act of corruption.”
In the village of Versailles on the West Bank Demerara, Martley Mc Rae and his employees were hard at work in his block-making factory.
The decision by the Ministry of Local Government (now Ministry of Communities) to terminate a contract awarded to BK International to construct and manage the Haags Bosch landfill site at Eccles was not only too hasty but unfair, according to Acting Chief Justice Ian Chang.
Opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday criticised government’s plan to seek pre-commercial production payments from oil company ExxonMobil as risky, while warning that it could foster corruption.
Former President Bharat Jagdeo yesterday reiterated his call for the declaration of assets by all members of parliament saying if government acquiesces he will be the first to make public not only his local assets but those held outside Guyana also.
An Essequibo Coast housewife was yesterday afternoon stabbed to death by her husband, who is now hospitalised in a critical condition after slashing his own throat.
The management of the National Stadium is preparing to take legal action against opposition Member of Parliament (MP) Odinga Lumumba and promoters Hits and Jams Entertainment over outstanding debts.
Although the four men accused of conspiring in the murder of elderly Robb Street resident Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris have been convicted and jailed, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum says the investigation of the crime is still active because there may be more players involved.
An elderly man succumbed at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Friday, a day after he was struck by a taxi.
The body of a Herstelling man, who went missing on Friday, was found yesterday in a clump of bushes behind the Park Vue Hotel at Farm, East Bank Demerara Samaroo Seepersaud, 63, was discovered by a search party made up of relatives.
The Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) is set to make a “strong declaration” in support of Guyana’s position in its border controversy with Venezuela, the Government Information Agency (GINA) said in a statement yesterday, quoting outgoing Secretary-General Dr Kamalesh Sharma as saying, “Guyana is at the heart of the Commonwealth.”
MOSCOW (Reuters) – President Vladimir Putin signed a decree imposing a raft of punitive economic sanctions against Turkey yesterday, underlining the depth of the Kremlin’s anger towards Ankara four days after Turkey shot down a Russian warplane.
RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – A link between a form of foetal brain damage and the mosquito-borne zica virus was confirmed by Brazilian health authorities yesterday.
As part of its promise to ‘do more’ telecommunication provider GTT opened a new retail store at the Giftland Mall yesterday.
The third edition of Expressions, a show by GEMS Theatre Produc-tions, is billed for the Theatre Guild Playhouse, Kingston on Thursday December 3.
SHANGHAI (Reuters) – Police in China, where gun possession by ordinary people is illegal, have busted an online gun selling operation, seizing 1,180 guns and more than 6 million bullets, the state news agency Xinhua reported yesterday.
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