WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – White House records show an unexplained gap of more than seven hours in the record of former President Donald Trump’s telephone calls the day of the deadly Jan.
LA PAZ, (Reuters) – Bolivia’s economy grew by 6.11% in 2021, government data showed yesterday, as a recovery in the country’s productive apparatus and raw material exports helped it to emerge from the largest contraction since the 1950s.
(Reuters) – Petrobras PETR4.SA has a strong governance and there is no room for “adventurers” within the firm, said outgoing Chief Executive Joaquim Silva e Luna yesterday.
ISTANBUL/KYIV OUTSKIRTS/MARIUPOL, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Russia promised at peace talks today to scale down its military operations around Kyiv and northern Ukraine, while Ukraine proposed adopting a neutral status but with international guarantees that it would be protected from attack.
LIMA, (Reuters) – Peruvian President Pedro Castillo survived yesterday an impeachment vote in Congress that fell short of the votes needed to oust the leftist leader eight months after he took office.
The agreement between Suriname and Guyana last August for 150 fisherfolk here to be granted licences by Paramaribo starting from January, 2022 is still to be realized and Chairman of the No 66 Fisheries Co-op, Parmeshwar Jainarine feels the delay is as a result of a pushback from licence holders in Nickerie who currently rent licences to Guyanese and stand to lose revenue.
President Irfaan Ali yesterday appointed Deputy Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken to act as the country’s Commissioner of Police as Nigel Hoppie who was holding the position in an acting capacity heads into pre-retirement leave.
A number of civil society activists have written to Barbadian Prime Minister Mia Mottley urging that she take the lead in convening CARICOM leaders and experts in determining the risks posed to the Caribbean by what they described as the “reckless pace” of oil exploration in Guyana’s Exclusive Economic Zone (EEZ).
Kurt Erskine, who was involved in the plot to rob Regent Multiplex Mall owner, Ganesh Ramlall, who was killed when bandits pounced on him, was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 25 years, but after deductions, will be spending just about 16 behind bars.
Trinidadian manufacturers yesterday lamented that non-tariff barriers were hampering imports of agricultural produce from Guyana and called on the political directorate to clear the hurdles.
Following a recent visit to Trinidad and Tobago where he met with its business community, Guyana’s Foreign Secretary, Robert Persaud says that Vice President, Bharrat Jagdeo’s assessment of that country’s economy’s heavy dependency on the oil and gas sector is “realistic” and that the two private sector heads disputing this are being disingenuous.
Prime Minister Mark Phillips on Saturday assured residents of Lethem that their power rates won’t rise despite spiraling fuel prices but he urged them to pay their bills as many are delinquent.
LVIV/KHARKIV, Ukraine, (Reuters) – Air raid sirens sounded across Ukraine before dawn today as Ukrainian and Russian negotiators prepared to meet in Turkey for face-to-face talks, with Kyiv seeking a ceasefire without compromising on territory or sovereignty.