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By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 0 Comments
Dear Editor,
Please allow me to respond to the letter bearing the caption ‘Forty years of contributions but still no NIS pension’ (SN, October 29).
Please be …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 0 Comments
MOBILE, Ala., (Reuters) – Ida dwindled to a tropical depression on Tuesday after crawling ashore in Alabama from the Gulf of Mexico, and oil operations …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments
Dear Editor,
With respect to the letter written by Mr Adrian Anamayah under the caption ‘The association of Berbice lawyers is a vibrant and functioning one’ …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment
(Jamaica Observer) Government on Sunday opened tenders for the construction of a modern firearms tactical training unit at the Jamaica Police Academy in Twickenham Park, …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 0 Comments
LONDON, England CMC – West Indies batting icon Brian Lara has endorsed Chris Gayle as the choice for West Indies captain and has urged the …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 0 Comments
NEW YORK, (Reuters Life!) – After more than 30-years, murder mystery writer Agatha Christie’s fictional Belgian detective Hercule Poirot will return to the United States …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 4 Comments
Dear Editor,
The gulf separating the police from the public is not a new development, as police departments, especially in developing countries, seldom enjoy the respect …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 0 Comments
(Trinidad Express) Prime Minister Patrick Manning could not hide his feeling of vindication and national pride as he opened the TT$480 million controversial National Academy …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment
● Backlash against GM crops complicates bid to feed world
● Resistance to science-based agriculture grows in U.S.
● Is a second Green Revolution needed, or even …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 5 Comments
What used to be called the Western world, the area of the post-war world centred on the NATO alliance, has this week been celebrating the …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 2 Comments
ATHENS, (Reuters) – A man died after jumping off Greece’s Acropolis, a major tourist attraction visited by millions every year, police said yesterday.
Tourists witnessed the …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 28 Comments
Dear Editor,
Two weeks ago, members of the Guyana Police Force brutally tortured a 14-year-old boy at Leonora Police Station where the Force’s ‘D’ Division …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, November 11, 2009 | 1 Comment
(BBC) The International Monetary Fund has approved a US$1.7 billion loan programme to help the Dominican Republic through the economic crisis.
In common with several Caribbean …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 85 Comments
Guyana and Norway yesterday signed an agreement that will see Oslo paying US$30 million ($6.2 billion) next year and potentially up to US$250 million ($51.7 …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 33 Comments
– apparently strangled
The body of a 26-year-old woman was fished out of a trench at Silk Cotton Dam, Zeelugt, West Coast Demerara (WCD) at approximately …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 124 Comments
Police indicated yesterday that the 16-year-old student of New Amsterdam Multilateral School was fatally beaten at Number 63 Beach on Sunday after he had picked …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 54 Comments
The attorney for the teen tortured by police says that his client denied being involved in the murder of retired Region Three Vice-Chairman Ramenauth Bisram …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 66 Comments
The Guyana Human Rights Association (GHRA) has accused Police Surgeon Mahendra Chand of ignoring the abuse of a teen who was tortured while in custody …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 14 Comments
-prosecution seeking key witness
Magistrate Hazel Octive Hamilton last Thursday adjourned the trial of Fred Sukhdeo for the US$2 million GuyFlag insurance fraud allegedly committed …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, November 10, 2009 | 12 Comments
Residents of the Onverwagt Compound, West Berbice have lamented the deplorable condition of the streets and drains and are calling for them to be fixed …
