LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – More than 1,000 Ukrainian marines have surrendered in the port of Mariupol, Russia’s defence ministry said today of its main strategic target in the eastern Donbas region, which has been reduced to ruins but is not yet under Russian control.
PARIS, (Reuters) – French President Emmanuel Macron launched a scathing attack on far-right rival Marine Le Pen today saying her true “authoritarian” intentions were showing after she banned a team of reporters and did not rule out a return to the death penalty.
STOCKHOLM/HELSINKI, (Reuters) – Finland will take a decision about whether to apply to join the U.S.-led
The Ministry of Agriculture yesterday signed contracts worth $1.3 billion for 35 projects countrywide, with Gaico Construction and General Services Inc being allocated the largest – $569.3 million for the dredging of the Pomeroon River mouth.
By Aviso Paul A 57-year-old Foulis, East Coast Demerara (ECD) housewife was murdered in the wee hours of yesterday after police say her husband made good on threats he had made to her life.
Lauding Guyana for its accession to the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) as its final court, President of the CCJ, Justice Adrian Saunders, said that during the years the country had a single appellate tier, its justice system “did not flourish as well as it could otherwise have.”
With investment interests from Canadian businesses accelerating since oil was found here, Guyana and Canada yesterday signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) that will see them working together for investments across a wide range of business ventures.
At the height of the COVID-19 pandemic last year, US-based medical services provider RemoteMD charged 15 oil services workers US$350 ($70,000) each for a rapid COVID test, far higher than local labs and raising questions again over the expense claims that ExxonMobil and its contractors will make as cost oil.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday decided to confirm Melanie Marshall as the substantive Voter Registration Manager, according to Commissioners Vincent Alexander and Sase Gunraj.
Vice-President Bharrat Jagdeo on Sunday dropped a broad hint that there would be no revival of sugar at the Skeldon estate on the scale that had been promised by the government and envisaged by Corentyne residents.
A body suspected to be that of Rosignol fisherman, Suraj Dhaneshwar, who reportedly fell overboard last month, washed up on the Dantzig, Mahaicony foreshore on Monday.
A four-year-old girl is currently in critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after she was stabbed by her mother’s partner on Sunday evening following an argument between the women.
(Trinidad Express) Soldier David Alexander has been charged with manslaughter in relation to the death of his daughter, 15-year-old Alliyah Alexander.
LVIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said for the first time that Moscow’s invasion of Ukraine amounts to genocide, as President Vladimir Putin said Russia would “rhythmically and calmly” continue its operation and achieve its goals.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British Prime Minister Boris Johnson apologised but defied calls to resign yesterday after being fined for breaking coronavirus lockdown rules by attending a gathering in his office to celebrate his birthday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Minutes after he preached about the importance of preparing for the second coming of Jesus, a Pointe-a-Pierre evangelist was shot dead in front of his family on Monday.
The Guyana Police Force (GPF) on Monday signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) with the Guyana Industrial Training Centre (GITC) which will allow members of the force to attend a number of training programmes at the facility.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Police mounted an intense manhunt yesterday for a gunman who set off two smoke bombs and opened fire in a New York subway car, injuring more than 20 people in a morning rush-hour attack that prompted new calls to fight violence in the city’s transit system.
The Ministry of Health yesterday reported 8 new COVID-19 cases from 1, 357 tests that were conducted.
(Trinidad Guardian) Police have launched a manhunt for the killers of Amar Mohammed, 23.
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