Residents of Hadfield Street, Georgetown, are complaining about the neighbouring Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company’s (GTT) generators which are emitting thick smoke in addition to being a noise nuisance.
VENTANILLA, Peru, (Reuters) – Spanish energy firm Repsol SA said yesterday it will only finish cleaning up a large oil spill off the coast of Peru in late March, pushing back an earlier timeline it had set of late February.
A Grade 2 Medic of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) last Friday aided a mother with the delivery of her baby while enroute to the Diamond Diagnostic Centre on the East Bank of Demerara.
The U.S. Embassy in collaboration with the Guyana Council of Organizations for Persons with Disabilities (GCOPD) recently facilitated job prepara-tion training for Persons with Disabilities.
CARTAGENA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Venezuela is moving troops to the border with Colombia with technical assistance from Russia and Iran, Colombia’s Defense Minister Diego Molano said yesterday, calling the possible deployment “foreign interference.”
WARRI, Nigeria, (Reuters) – An oil production and storage vessel exploded off the coast of Nigeria early on Wednesday with 10 crew members on board though it was unclear if there were any casualties or how much crude might have spilled into the sea.
Some 300 villagers of Issano, Cuyuni-Mazaruni, Region Seven recently benefitted from a medical outreach that involved the US embassy and several NGOs including the California-based group, Guyana Medical Relief (GMR).
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s President Jair Bolsonaro met with Peru’s President Pedro Castillo yesterday and pressed him on a project to build a cross-border road that would allow Brazil access to the Pacific.
CARTAGENA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Venezuela is moving troops to the border with Colombia with technical assistance from Russia and Iran, Colombia’s Defense Minister Diego Molano said today, calling the possible deployment “foreign interference.”
Earlier today between 09:45 hrs and 11:37 hrs, 18-year-old prisoner on remand, Kavin Singh, Lot 291 School Street Grove, East Bank Demerara escaped from the Lusignan Prison Virtual Court compound while attending court.
Shawn Bobb, 27, a construction worker of Lot 252 Independence Boulevard, Albouystown, Georgetown today appeared in court charged with the murder of his stepson, Isaiah Edwards, 19.
BAYELSA, Nigeria, (Reuters) – An oil production vessel exploded off the coast of Nigeria early yesterday with 10 crew members on board though it was not yet clear if there were any casualties or how much crude might have spilled into the sea.
Minister of Education Priya Manickchand yesterday told the National Assembly that Guyana stands the risk of losing its children if government accedes to the Opposition’s call for schools to be closed, noting that some 70 children got pregnant during the COVID-19 related closures.