The driver of Toyota Land Cruiser PAE 528 along with two other men who allegedly verbally abused police ranks at a roadblock yesterday appeared before Magistrate Sunil Scarce at the Diamond/Grove Magistrate’s court.
The Canada-funded `Strengthening Justice for Women, Girls, and Indigenous Peoples in Guyana project’, implemented by the Justice Education Society (JES), recently hosted training for 26 medical professionals on the proper use of sexual assault evidence collection kits, which were donated by the project to the Ministry of Health in February of this year.
PORTO ALEGRE, Brazil, (Reuters) – Authorities interrupted rescue efforts in flood-ravaged southern Brazil yesterday amid more rain and the risk of lightning and stiff winds that threaten to exacerbate a catastrophe that has already killed at least 100 people and left over 163,000 seeking shelter.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Nicaragua’s congress, controlled by President Daniel Ortega, yesterday repealed a law which had given a little-known Chinese investor a concession of up to 100 years to build and operate a canal between the Pacific and Atlantic Oceans.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – China is investigating a former senior executive of China National Offshore Oil Company, or CNOOC, for suspected “serious disciplinary violations”, the country’s anti-graft watchdog said on its website late on Monday.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s president-elect, Jose Raul Mulino, said yesterday he will urge lawmakers to approve a law enabling the Panama Canal to build large water reservoirs in the face of an unprecedented drought that has hit the capacity of the vital waterway.
0WASHINGTON/CAIRO/RAFAH, Gaza Strip, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden for the first time publicly vowed to withhold weapons from Israel if its forces make a major invasion of Rafah in southern Gaza while negotiations in Cairo on a ceasefire plan for the enclave were due to continue today.
Government has earmarked $1.1 billion to rehabilitate key thoroughfares in Region Nine, a Department of Public Information (DPI) release stated yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) T&T had 11.49 trillion cubic feet (tcf) of natural gas under contract to be developed at the end of 2022, Energy Minister Stuart Young told a news conference on Tuesday.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Russian missiles and drones struck nearly a dozen Ukrainian energy infrastructure facilities on Wednesday, causing serious damage at three Soviet-era thermal power plants and blackouts in multiple regions, officials said.
Under the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI) framework, Guyana has enlisted consultants to assist in implementing its Beneficial Ownership Roadmap, aimed at enhancing transparency in extractive industries.
(Reuters) – Fiji’s former long-serving prime minister Frank Bainimarama was yesterday sentenced to a year in prison for perverting the course of justice, the country’s director of public prosecutions said.
(Trinidad Express) A retired High Court judge—David Harris—will chair the team to investigate the imbroglio involving the Auditor General and the Ministry/Minister of Finance.
Thirty-year-old Sherman Bobb, and his 26-year-old, girlfriend, Monifa Edwards both appeared yesterday before Acting Chief Magistrate, Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court charged with possession of narcotics and possession of a firearm and ammunition without a licence.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Widespread recent power outages in Mexico were caused by unseasonably hot weather, the country’s president said yesterday, assuring consumers that the national grid has sufficient generating capacity going forward.
(Reuters) – Marine conservationists and government scientists are seeking clues to the mystery of how a 44-foot whale carcass ended up on the bow of a cruise liner, where it was discovered as the ship approached New York City’s Port of Brooklyn over the weekend.