News

BAMAKO (Reuters) – Russian President Vladimir Putin said yesterday he wanted global cooperation to combat terrorism after Islamist militants killed 19 people, including six Russians, in an attack on a luxury hotel in Mali.

A September, 1974 US diplomatic cable described the sale of the Guyana Graphic by the Thompson Group to the state as a forced one and cites the then PNC government’s “harassment” of the newspaper’s employees as a key factor.

(Reuters) – Western leaders who met on the margins of last week’s Group of 20 summit in Turkey agreed to extend sanctions against Russia for its actions in Ukraine by six months until July of next year, a senior European diplomat told Reuters.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Governments worldwide have no hope of combatting modern day slavery unless credible data is collected on the hidden crime so victims can be identified and helped, a leading campaigner said.

The Department of Labour is taking the owner of the Aracari Resort to court for several breaches of the labour laws after a security guard was dismissed for refusing to chase dogs out of the compound.

A fault at the Kingston Power Station was likely responsible for the total shutdown of the Demerara Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) yesterday morning.

BRUSSELS (Reuters) – Belgium put the capital Brussels on maximum security alert yesterday, shutting the metro and warning people to avoid crowds because of a “serious and imminent” threat of coordinated, multiple attacks by militants.

TEGUCIGALPA (Reuters) – Honduran police arrested a Syrian woman and two Pakistani men yesterday after determining they were travelling illegally and presumably en route to the United States, authorities said.

DHAKA (Reuters) – Bangladesh executed two opposition leaders today for war crimes committed during the 1971 war to break away from Pakistan, a senior police official said, in a move likely to draw an angry reaction from supporters.

Longstanding journalist and reporter on culture at the Guyana Chronicle, Raschid Osman passed away today.

The Ministry of Tourism and the Protected Areas Commission today reported that a female visitor to Kaieteur Falls jumped over the Falls this morning, in an apparent suicide.

At 5:45 hours this morning, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) said that the Demerara Berbice Interconnected System (DBIS) experienced a total shutdown.

Faced with a barrage of criticisms over his seemingly arrogant stance in reacting to questions about significant salary increases granted to ministers, Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday offered an apology to the Guyanese people, except for the members of the PPP/C.

Lamenting the “escalation” of crime here, the Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday floated strategies for the reduction of crime, while saying that it is willing to partner with the relevant authorities to address the situation.

Three men, including one who was allegedly caught after he found himself on the receiving end of a chopper during the home invasion of Tucberg Park businessman Nicholas Harrinandan, were yesterday charged with the crime and remanded to prison.

Despite a ministerial order to halt the operation of a dredge in close proximity to Isseneru’s residential area, at Middle Mazaruni, Region Seven, the miner on Thursday reportedly restarted his mining operation, triggering concern that conflict could erupt between him and the villagers.

Communities Minister Ronald Bulkan yesterday announced that local government elections, which have been delayed for almost two decades, would be run off on Friday, March 18th, 2016.

The family of a 35-year-old woman, who delivered a stillborn baby at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Wednesday afternoon, blames negligence by medical personnel and is calling for a thorough investigation to be launched.

Students writing the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) next year will have their secondary school placement decided on the strength of those scores alone.

Having undergone a multi-million dollar technological upgrade courtesy of Samsung Electronics, the North Ruim-veldt Multilateral is now the local pilot school for Samsung’s Smart School Project.