PARIS, (Reuters) – Former President Jacques Chirac, a political chameleon who dominated French politics for decades and strived to make France’s voice heard in Europe and beyond, died yesterday at the age of 86.
A fire of unknown origin late yesterday afternoon completely destroyed the upper flat of a 92-year-old pensioner’s house located at Lancaster Village, Corentyne.
(Trinidad Express) Convicted drug accused Stephen Gocking has been slapped with a 20-year prison term after being found guilty by a Port of Spain jury in July on two counts of cocaine possession for the purpose of trafficking.
RIO DE JANEIRO/SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazil’s environmental agency Ibama said yesterday that an analysis of a vast oil spill along the country’s northeastern beaches showed the spilled crude did not originate in the country.
(Barbados Nation) Starting today, the Barbados Water Authority will be rationing water and diverting it to other areas, especially parishes to the north and east that are most in need.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Scientists have captured a view of a colossal black hole violently ripping apart a doomed star, illustrating a extraordinary and chaotic cosmic event from beginning to end for the first time using NASA’s planet-hunting telescope.
Providing adequate shelter to the thousands of Venezuelan migrants who have come to Guyana in recent months is a key concern, according to Minister of Citizenship, Winston Felix.
(Trinidad Express) SATNARINE “TEDDY’ RAMPERSAD was shot and killed while in his bed around 4 a.m.
PARIS, (Reuters) – Former President Jacques Chirac, a political chameleon who dominated French politics for decades in roles ranging from mayor of Paris to the second-longest serving leader of the nation, died today at the age of 86.
(Trinidad Express) Tickets for traffic offences like speeding will start being mailed to offenders this year, Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi said yesterday.
President David Granger last evening cited March 2nd 2020 as the earliest date for general elections but did not issue a proclamation as is legally required.
Two former employees of the National Frequency Management Unit (NFMU), Keith Griffith and Robert Ross are to be compensated after it was determined that they were unjustly dismissed in 1998.
Former Chairman of the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) Hugh Denbow, who died on Monday evening, hours after his bound body was found in his North Sophia home following a home invasion was strangled, an autopsy has found.
The bodies of the two men who went missing after a collision between two boats on the Essequibo River on Monday which claimed the life of Sherry Khan, were found on the shores of Hog Island yesterday.
The lifeless body of a 13-year-old girl was yesterday found hanging in a bedroom of her Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara (WBD) house.
Daniel Forrester, the motorcyclist charged last year with causing the death of a pedestrian in a collision at Bagotstown, East Bank of Demerara, was yesterday found guilty of the crime and a probation report has been ordered before sentencing.
Vendors are pleased with the ongoing repairs to a section of the Bourda Market roof, saying that works on the market are “long overdue.” However, some are afraid of closing their stalls as they are fearful of robbers “carrying away everything.”
Paul Ivor Thom, who was found guilty of manslaughter at the High Court in Berbice earlier this month, was yesterday sentenced to six years imprisonment for the crime.
An office assistant was charged with causing the death of a motorcyclist that also left the pillion rider hospitalised, and was granted bail.
A 55-year-old motorcyclist is now dead after he allegedly lost control and collided with a minibus along the Somerset and Berks, Essequibo Coast Public Road early yesterday morning.
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