Almost three weeks after he allegedly shot and killed his father during an argument, a Paramakatoi Village pork knocker Dintus John was yesterday charged with manslaughter and remanded to prison.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – A federal judge has ordered a Florida-based company to stop selling a product that it says cures COVID-19 but prosecutors allege contains a powerful bleach that could make people sick when it is ingested, the Justice Department said yesterday.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian startup Rappi is piloting deliveries by robots as a safe way of getting food to people forced to stay at home due to the coronavirus pandemic.
LONDON, (Reuters) – A British court awarded $11 million in damages and expenses yesterday to a former partner at global accounting firm Ernst & Young who exposed money laundering at a major gold refinery in the United Arab Emirates.
Sandra Brescenio, the woman who allegedly stabbed her common-law-husband to death on Sunday during an argument at their home, was yesterday charged with manslaughter and granted $300,000 bail.
NEW DELHI/BENGALURU, (Reuters) – Latin American countries including Brazil, Argentina and Colombia have scrapped import duties on some respiratory equipment from India as a temporary trade-relief measure to fight the new coronavirus, engineering exports body EEPC India said yesterday.
Newly established tourism promotion company Tourism Guyana and the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA), have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to work together to promote the awareness of Guyana’s tourism product and to drive market demand among locals and international travellers.
MONTREAL, (Reuters) – Transport Canada said on Friday that all airline passengers would be required to wear a non-medical mask or face covering during travel to curb the spread of coronavirus.
MEXICO CITY, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – A judge ordered the Mexican government to extend its coronavirus protections to migrants, ruling that health care be guaranteed to detainees and temporary residence permits given to those especially vulnerable to the disease.
As the Ministry of Public Infrastructure awaits financing to execute works on a vulnerable portion of Mahaicony sea defence, emergency measures have been put in place to monitor the erosion that is rapidly taking place.
BEIJING/SHANGHAI, (Reuters) – Nearly 1,300 people who died of the coronavirus in the Chinese city of Wuhan, or half the total, were not counted in death tolls because of lapses, state media said yesterday, but Beijing dismissed claims that there had been any kind of cover-up.
Five parties that contested the recent general elections today expressed disappointment with the GECOM Chair’s decision for no more than 10 work stations for the recount of votes.
Fallout from a US lobbyist’s report on behalf of APNU+AFC continues as the Ministry of the Presidency was this afternoon forced to state that President David Granger is Guyanese and not a US citizen as stated in the document.
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) has commended GECOM Chair, Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh on her decision today to move forward with the recount of votes cast at the March 2nd general elections.
The number of confirmed cases of novel coronavirus disease (COVID-19) in Guyana has risen to 63, with 18 new cases being recorded in this week alone, Public Health Minister Volda Lawrence announced this afternoon.
(Trinidad Express) As of yesterday, 38,000 people had applied for the Salary Relief Grant provided by the Government to ease the hardship suddenly inflicted on them by the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry today said that a fully-empowered government needs to be in place to grapple with the COVID-19 threat and this would only be possible with a quick end to the elections crisis through a recount of votes.