Residents of Dochfour, Demerara-Mahaica, have been assured that any damage to their properties due to the ongoing road construction either on the Railway Embankment (Sheriff Street to Orange Nassu) or on the East Bank Public Road to Mahaica, will be compensated once proper verifications are done and checked against the contractor’s initial pre-conditional survey.
HOUSTON (Reuters) – Chevron CEO Michael Wirth is facing a head-to-head match with Exxon Mobil with his US$53 billion bid for Hess and its stake in oil hotspot Guyana, and could wind up trapped in a dispute between two of South America’s biggest energy rivals.
(Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken will travel to Jamaica today to attend a Caribbean Community (CARICOM) meeting on Haiti where a collapse in security and a humanitarian crisis in the Caribbean nation has unfolded, the State Department said.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s African National Congress (ANC) is likely to lose its parliamentary majority in May for the first time since Nelson Mandela led it to power at the fall of apartheid 30 years ago, a survey showed, opening up the prospect of coalition rule.
(Trinidad Guardian) A Siparia community is in mourning after well-known attorney Everald Davidson died after a car knocked him down as he exercised in his neighbourhood on Saturday evening.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – “Oppenheimer,” the blockbuster biopic about the race to build the first atomic bomb, claimed seven Academy Awards including the prestigious best picture trophy yesterday as Hollywood celebrated a triumphant year in film.
The first night of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan will be tomorrow, Monday 11th March, according to a statement this evening from the Central Islamic Organization of Guyana (CIOG).
(Trinidad Express) Death was instantaneous for a 46-year-old La Romaine mechanic when he was shot while sitting in his Range Rover yesterday afternoon.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. military said today it has carried out an operation in Haiti to airlift non-essential embassy personnel from the country and added U.S.
Byron Pearson, a 67-year-old resident of Mongrippa Hill, Bartica, appeared yesterday at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court before Magistrate Crystal Lambert and was found guilty of two counts of ‘Causing Death by Dangerous Driving’.
MADRID, (Reuters) – Thousands of Spaniards marched through the centre of Madrid today to protest against an amnesty bill for Catalan separatists involved in a failed 2017 independence bid.
DHARAMSALA, India, (Reuters) – England’s seemingly ageless James Anderson today became the first seam bowler to claim 700 test wickets, achieving the feat in the fifth and final test against India at the Himachal Pradesh Cricket Association Stadium.
(Trinidad Guardian) The highly anticipated annual Tobago Jazz Experience will not be making a return in 2024, as the Tobago House of Assembly has decided to scrap it due to its “unsustainability”.
Detectives are investigating the murder of David Gomes, a 49-year-old Driver of D’Urban Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown, and his 75-year-old mother Nellie Gomes, also of the same address, which occurred between 17:00 hrs and 20:00 hrs yesterday at Saxacalli Mission, Essequibo River.
The six persons who were charged with conspiracy to facilitate the escape of death row prisoner, Royden Williams, known as ‘Smallie’, were all acquitted of the charges and freed by Magistrate Crystal Lambert today at the Bartica Magistrate’s Court.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – Switzerland’s first full trial of crimes against humanity concluded this week, with the defendant, a former Gambian minister accused of rape and murder, giving a defiant closing speech in which he claimed to be a victim of racism and lies.
(Trinidad Express) When her killer ended 79-year-old Viscella Richards’ life, Trinidad and Tobago lost an actor who decades ago had shone on international silver screens in the late ’60s and early ’70s.