Articles published on Thursday, January 2, 2014
NEW YORK/BOSTON, (Reuters) – The governors of New York and New Jersey declared a state of emergency and urged residents to stay indoors as a major storm hit the northeastern United States today, bringing heavy snow and delaying or canceling thousands of flights.
Police say that the suspect in the murder of Carlissa Matthews was arrested at about 0800h.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – James Avery, a classically trained actor best known for his role as the wealthy uncle of the young rapper Will Smith in the 1990s television comedy “The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air,” has died at age 65.
This stylish trio was photographed at the Sleep Inn Hotel on Old Year’s Night.
The Transparency Institute of Guyana Inc (TIGI) has rebuffed an attack on it by Minister in the Ministry of Finance, Juan Edghill.
This quintet took a break from the Sleep Inn New Year’s festivities for a photo.
This trio had a great New Year’s at the Sleep Inn.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon on Tuesday advised that ‘no objections’ were granted to six contracts including $375m for the construction of the medical building at the Port Kaituma Hospital, Region One at a cost of $375M.
Head of the Presidential Secretariat Dr. Roger Luncheon on Tuesday announced that Cabinet has granted approval for the General Register Office (GRO) to increase the cost of birth, death and marriage certificates.
City Hall is not to blame for the present garbage situation in Georgetown as it is the responsibility of the Government and the Town Clerk.
An eight-year-old boy of Plum Park, Sophia, was electrocuted by a live wire connection on Monday morning after he left his home to go fishing.
(Trinidad Express) A pastor became the nation’s first murder victim for the year when he was shot dead during a robbery at his home at Mausica Road, Arima, yesterday morning.
A common economic zone has been proposed by the members of ALBA and PetroCaribe with the objective of combating poverty in the region.
The Guyanese crew of the vessel from which over US$11 million of gold was spectacularly carted off by thieves last year November in Curacao has been ordered to once again answer questions on the robbery.
A bill to amend the Evidence Act, which has been awaiting passage since the middle of last year, seeks to expand the types of documents which can be tendered as evidence.
In its New Year’s Message, the National Association of Agricultural, Commercial and Industrial Employees (NAACIE) appealed for 2014 to be a year when “our trade unions must become trade unions again.”
North East La Penitence trounced Den Amstel by a 4-1 scoreline in the final of the Mayor’s 79th birthday anniversary seven-a-side Inter-Ward football tournament on Sunday at the Den Amstel Community ground.
Projecting that it will achieve universal secondary education before the term of the present administration ends in 2016, the Ministry of Education is also working to improve pass rates in Mathematics and English and to this end has hired two Math specialists.
At about 1330h on Tuesday, ranks of a police roving patrol at Arimu, Cuyuni, conducted a search on a man in whose possession was found an unlicensed 12 gauge shotgun with one cartridge.
