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Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) scientists are presently in Guyana networking with stakeholders involved in the European Union (EU)-financed four-year “Coconut Industry Development for the Caribbean” project.
A Brooklyn, New York jury has ordered Delta Airlines to pay US$759,000 ($158m) in damages to a Guyana-born security guard who was arrested after a baggage handler planted cocaine in his suitcase, the New York Daily News reported on Thursday.
The promise of visa-free travel to Canada landed a Lusignan taxi driver before a city court, where he was fined $30,000 yesterday on a conspiracy to commit fraud charge.
A carpenter is now hospitalised in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was struck by a minibus yesterday afternoon.
A hit-and-run accident at Bolam, East Coast Berbice on Tuesday has left a cane cutter in the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing multiple fractures to his arm and leg.
An accident along the Harlem Public Road, West Coast Demerara (WCD) on Thursday evening has left three persons injured.
A Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara (WCD) shop owner was beaten and robbed during the wee hours of Wednesday morning, when two armed men invaded his house.
Just months after passing key amendments to the anti-money laundering law, following a bitter three-year battle, the APNU+AFC administration is moving to make more changes.
An Albousytown cart man was yesterday remanded to prison to await trial after he was charged with robbing a woman of hundreds of thousands of dollars in diamonds and other items.
A horse cart operator was yesterday remanded to prison after being read charges of armed robbery and possession of cannabis.
The management of Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has launched an internal investigation into disruptions of the utility company’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) network.
A Dowding Street, Kitty woman was yesterday remanded to prison after she appeared before a city court for possession of cannabis for trafficking.
The government of Mexico under the VI Mexico-Caricom Cooperation Programme 2014-2015 has commenced a two-week intermediate Spanish course in Guyana for more than 30 teachers of the language within the region.
(Reuters) – Australia captain Steve Smith enforced the follow-on after West Indies were dismissed for 223, a first innings deficit of 360 runs, early on the third day of the first test at Hobart today.
The Guyana Water Inc says that Chief Executive, Dr. Richard Van West-Charles and the management of GWI have launched an internal investigation following the discovery by GWI ICT personnel of a device which compromised GWI’s ICT network.
Just months after passing the anti-money laundering law following a three-year battle, the APNU+AFC administration is to now table amendments to it.
A Brooklyn, New York jury has ordered Delta Airlines to pay US$759,000 ($158m) in damages to a Guyana-born security guard who was arrested after a baggage handler planted cocaine in his suitcase, the New York Daily News reported yesterday.
The money, hundreds of millions of it, was to be spent on an ill-fated High Street project in contravention of the law, and on August 16, 2007, then Minister of Finance Ashni Singh was determined to keep it from the press.
President David Granger yesterday announced, what he called the Linden Action Plan, as he urged residents of Region Ten to rebuild their economy on four pillars: investment, information, infrastructure and innovation.
A miner was killed yesterday morning after a pit cave-in at the White Hole/Red Hole area, near Mahdia, Region Eight.
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