Magistrate Leron Daly is due on March 16 to make a decision on the charge against Ron Cole, the driver accused of causing the death of traffic policeman Nakosi ‘Kelvin’ La Fleur on the East Bank Demerara public road last year.
SOUTH OF MOSUL, IRAQ (Reuters) – Iraqi forces seized a damaged Mosul bridge yesterday which could link up their units on either side of the Tigris river, as thousands of civilians fled the fighting for Islamic State’s remaining stronghold in the west of the city.
Two accused robbers met the same fate yesterday when they were remanded to prison.
(Jamaica Observer) – Declaring that she is without fear of reprisal when it comes to women’s and children’s rights, former Youth and Culture Minister Lisa Hanna on Sunday lashed her critics, some of whom had sent death threats, for attacking her comments on convicted murderer Vybz Kartel producing music from behind prison bars.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – US President Donald Trump, who has attacked China on issues from trade to the South China Sea, held his first face-to-face talks with a member of the Chinese leadership yesterday, and the White House said it was a chance to discuss shared security interests and a possible meeting with President Xi Jinping.
Air Conditioning technician Pascal Smith was remanded to prison yesterday on a robbery charge after a court heard that he used a knife to rob a friend in what they both described as a joke.
U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres today appointed a Norwegian diplomat who dealt with the Colombian peace process to try to settle the longstanding border controversy between Venezuela and Guyana by the end of the year, the Associated Press said.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump is seeking what he called a “historic” 9 percent increase in military spending, even as the United States has wound down major wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and remains the world’s strongest military power.
Former attorney general Anil Nandlall today said the latest discussion with Attorney General Basil Williams SC on the deadlock over a Chairman for the Guyana Elections Commission has been futile.
Ogle Airport Inc (OAI) will conduct a full scale Mass Casualty Incident Management (MCIM) exercise at the Eugene F.
(Trinidad Express) An ex-soldier was stabbed to death on the streets of Port of Spain on Monday.
Fire of unknown origin completely destroyed the Benjamin’s Homemade Bakery at Buxton early this morning.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – South Korean intelligence believes suspects wanted for the murder of the half-brother of North Korea’s leader included several officials who worked for the reclusive state’s foreign and security ministries, according to lawmakers in Seoul.
Former President Donald Ramotar says the PPP’s support of term limits has not changed and head of the 1999-2000 constitutional commission, Ralph Ramkarran says that if necessary a referendum on the matter should pass easily as both major parties support limits on presidential terms.
Starting today, persons who operate drones and other Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) weighing more than 7 kg will have to apply to the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) for permission to fly them.
Four and a half years after an agreement was signed for the people of Linden to have their own television station – part of the pact with the then PPP/C government following bitter protests and the deaths of three men in 2012 – the residents of the mining community are still waiting for it to become operational.
A Bourda Market butcher died after he was struck down by a drunken driver on Saturday as he was walking home on the Pouderoyen Public Road.
The police say that a robbery suspect was shot yesterday morning at Bagotville after he resisted arrest but this version has been hotly disputed by residents of the area.
Former long-serving GuySuCo executive Dr Ian McDonald has urged that everything possible be done to save the sugar industry and called for focus on the market in CARICOM and other options.
In light of the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) pointing to a conflict in the Procurement Act pertaining to Cabinet’s role in the no-objection to contracts over $15m, the People’s Progressive Party says that while the section could be ambiguous it is clear that Cabinet should have no role.
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