SABANETA, Venezuela, (Reuters) – In 2010, late socialist leader Hugo Chavez knelt down in the backyard of his childhood home in Venezuela’s lush plains to plant an orange tree named ‘revolution’ as red-shirted supporters cheered and cameras flashed.
(Jamaica Observer) Digicel has confirmed the release of 51 expatriate members of its team with expectations that the positions will be taken up by locals.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – A World Trade Organization dispute panel ruled against Colombia’s tariff on textiles, clothes and shoes yesterday, dismissing its argument that the measures were needed to fight -money laundering.
Baroness Patricia Scotland was unveiled today as the Commonwealth Secretary-General Designate at the Commonwealth summit in Malta, a release from the Commonwealth said.
(Trinidad Guardian) A High Court judge will hear an application from the State today seeking to deem a US convicted national a terrorist and pave the way to freeze his assets.
Two persons are now dead and another is hospitalised in critical condition after the car they were travelling in crashed into a truck at Coverden, on the East Bank highway yesterday morning.
Government has come in for criticism for bypassing the public tendering process in its selection of Indian company Fedders Lloyd to resume construction of the controversial specialty hospital.
Michelle Bristol, the 27-year-old woman who collapsed and died at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri was actively involved in the fight against bullying in schools, her mother says.
Minister in the Ministry of Social Protection, Simona Broomes yesterday called on Chinese firms to obey Guyana’s labour laws and ensure good practices to stave off xenophobia.
Security of small states will be a key issue for Guyana at today’s Commonwealth Heads of Government Meeting (CHOGM) in Malta in the backdrop of months of aggression by Venezuela over the border controversy between the two countries.
A West Coast Berbice man who suffers from a hearing impairment was killed on the Rising Sun Public Road yesterday afternoon.
A St. Lucian national was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail and fined $1.2 million after he pleaded guilty to trying to smuggle 480 grammes of cocaine that he had ingested in pellet form out of the country.
The Women and Gender Equality Commission (WGEC) is very concerned about how victims of violence, including women, are being treated by the police force, according to commissioner Renata Chuck-A-Sang.
An Essequibo businessman was shot when he decided to stand up to two bandits during a robbery on Wednesday evening.
Three men appeared before a city court yesterday on a charge that they robbed a man of a cellphone.
A European Union (EU)-organised forum has recommended the formalising of the unofficial moratorium on the death penalty in Caribbean countries and it has argued that public opinion is not a major impediment to the removal of capital punishment.
Before the end of next year, government hopes to lay legislation in the National Assembly to set up a sovereign wealth fund, Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman has said.
A Paradise, Essequibo Coast fisherman is alleging that he was beaten up by a police officer stationed at the Anna Regina Police Station, at Essequibo Coast.
The People’s Republic of China has donated US$40,000 to the Global Friendships Foundation to aid in the restoration and enhancement of George-town, a release from the organisation said.
The retrial of Anthony Morrison commenced on Wednesday before Justice Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and a 12-member jury at the High Court, in Georgetown.
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