President Irfaan Ali yesterday announced a special one-off cash grant of $35,000 for all persons with permanent disabilities who are on the Ministry of Human Services and Social Security’s Disability Register.
The first cohort of 365 persons has completed the One Guyana Digital Programme, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).
A family in Little Abary in Region Five is grappling with the aftermath of a 20-lb Massy gas bottle explosion that rocked their home early yesterday morning, leaving them without basic utilities and seeking answers from the supplier.
A formal complaint was filed yesterday with the Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) by businessman and Opposition representative on the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Board, Terrence Campbell against Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo for allegedly making racially inflammatory remarks during a press conference on December 12th, 2024.
A group of Venezuelan Warrau migrants who had been stranded in Georgetown on Monday evening were finally provided with assistance by the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs yesterday.
The International Decade for People of African Descent Assembly-Guyana (IDPADA-G) has expressed worry that landownership for all Guyanese may be threatened by a proposed amendment to a Bill that deals with acquisition of lands by government.
The decomposed body of a man who was reported missing on December 14, was discovered at the Cove and John foreshore on Monday afternoon.
The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) yesterday certified MACORP’s Scheduled Oil Sampling (SOS) laboratory under the GYS 170:2021 standard, highlighting the facility’s commitment to precision, reliability, and adherence to international best practices, a MACORP release announced.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – A top Russian general accused by Ukraine of being responsible for the use of chemical weapons against Ukrainian troops was assassinated in Moscow by Ukraine’s SBU intelligence service yesterday morning in the most high-profile killing of its kind.
Trevin John, a 37-year-old gold miner of Baramita, North West District, was charged yesterday with attempted murder.
An investigation has been launched by the Office of Professional Responsibility (OPR) regarding a policeman who was seen in a video on Monday night kicking a man while he lay on the road during an arrest.
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Francis has revealed he was the target of an attempted suicide bombing during his visit to Iraq three years ago, the first by a Catholic pontiff to the country and probably the riskiest foreign trip of his 11-year papacy.
(Reuters) – Rescuers in Vanuatu searched on Wednesday for people trapped under rubble a day after a 7.4 magnitude earthquake struck the Pacific nation’s capital Port Vila, killing 14 people and damaging commercial buildings, embassies and a hospital.
Following the collapse of utility poles along Aubrey Barker Road from Kaikan Street to Festival City’s entrance on Thursday, residents faced electricity and water supply disruptions and Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill yesterday tendered an apology.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump has filed a lawsuit against the Des Moines Register newspaper and its former top pollster, the day after he stepped up his legal threats against news outlets and said he would also consider suing social media influencers for defamation.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Press Association of Jamaica (PAJ) is expressing shock and outrage at the tragic death of veteran journalist Barbara Gayle.
Alonzo Melville, a 29-year-old bailiff of Byderabo Road, Bartica, appeared at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Magistrate Teriq Mohamed to answer to the charge of obtaining money by false pretence.
The fire that claimed the lives of a mother and her daughter at Westminster, West Bank Demerara, last Friday, was electrical in origin, Fire Chief Gregory Wickham says.
OTTAWA, (Reuters) – Canada imposed sanctions on five current or former senior officials of the Venezuelan government yesterday, saying the individuals undermined democracy, in a move rejected by Caracas, which called the measure “illegal.”
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Armed men attacked and partially destroyed a hospital in Haiti’s capital Port-au-Prince, a hospital director told Reuters yesterday, amid a wave of escalating violence that prompted Doctors Without Borders to suspend operations in Haiti last month.
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