Traffic Chief Senior Superintendent Mahendra Singh is urging motorists to use their ‘hazard’ lights, be cautious and drive at a moderate speed due to the ‘heavy fog/smoke’ affecting visibility along the Soesdyke/Linden Highway this morning.
SAMREBOI, Ghana, (Reuters) – Surveying the stripped landscape of her farm – dotted with pools of cyanide-tainted, tea coloured waste water left by illegal gold miners – is enough to make Janet Gyamfi break down.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – Authorities in Singapore said they charged two former officials of Sembcorp Marine today with handing bribes to Brazilian officials to advance the company’s interests in the South American nation.
With France’s planned establishment of an embassy here next year, Guyanese will no longer have to travel to Suriname to have their Schengen visas processed as Paris says it will handle it.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a public notice yesterday warning that its sensors are reporting that the air quality in regions Three and Four is in the “unhealthy” range which is based on the World Health Organization Standards for Good Air Quality.
As it underscored the global tiers of safety mechanisms taken in the pipeline installation and delivery of gas for this country’s Gas to Energy (GTE) project, ExxonMobil says that the laying will be completed by the end of this year and the pipes will be filled with nitrogen until government’s completion of the integrated plant.
Following a visit to the Three-door Sluice, D’ Edward Village, West Coast Berbice, President Irfaan Ali yesterday vowed to address the woes of fishermen such as the dire need for a shed to mend fish gear.
The third season of the Guyana Learning Channel’s Whiz Kids wrapped up yesterday afternoon with Oshen Sooknanan from the Qayyim Academy in Region Three emerging as the 2024 champion.
China’s Ambassador to Guyana, Guo Haiyan yesterday said that the Embassy will be working closely with the government to remind Chinese citizens to increase security measures to protect themselves.
Minister of Health, Dr Frank Anthony, accompanied by the Regional Health Officer, Dr Gregory Harris, yesterday commissioned the first Regional Dental Unit in Christianburg, Linden, Region Ten.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Israel has asked the White House to reschedule a high-level meeting on military plans for Gaza’s southern city of Rafah that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had abruptly canceled, officials said yesterday, in an apparent bid to ease tensions between the two allies.
The first 167 persons who have been squatting at Amelia’s Ward-Phase 4 in Linden, Region Ten yesterday signed up for their Certificates of Title at the Linden Foundation Secondary School.
During the United Nations Human Rights Committee’s focus on Guyana, Costa Rica’s representative Rodrigo Carazo upbraided Minister of Parliamentary Affairs and Governance Gail Teixeira for her “confrontational” responses to questions posed.
(Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron said yesterday during his visit to Brazil that a potential agreement between the European Union and the South American Mercosur trade bloc as it stands is a “very bad deal” and more climate commitments are needed.
Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha has called for greater focus on the use of technology in the food production system, more involvement of women and youth in agriculture, and creating resilient and climate-protected agri-food systems in Latin America and the Caribbean.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – Creating technological barriers and severing industrial supply chains would only lead to confrontation, Chinese President Xi Jinping warned today, as new Dutch policies on chip exports to China threaten to strain bilateral ties.
Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony yesterday commissioned a Simulation Clinical Skills Lab at the Charles Roza Nursing School, located in the compound of the Linden Hospital Complex.