The Ministry of Public Infrastructure today said that numerous areas along the coast have been overtopped by towering springtides and the breach of an undermined shore at Mahaicony has resulted in salt water intrusion at Bellamy and adjoining agricultural lands.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump today escalated his attacks against the lawmaker leading the impeachment inquiry against him, suggesting that Representative Adam Schiff be arrested for “treason.”
Spring tides continued to batter sea defences across the coast yesterday with flooding reported in almost every coastal region as the authorities scrambled to respond with hundreds of persons at risk.
Following what he believes is an error in the Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM) announcement that all potential voters for the 2020 elections must verify their registration, opposition-nominated commissioner Sase Gunraj said that he will press for sanctions against those responsible.
A shooting on Saturday night in Amelia’s Ward, Linden, has left one man dead and his partner hospitalised.
Guyana will undergo massive development when the oil starts flowing and New York-based Guyanese would like to see free university education as a priority so that more young people would be qualified and remain there.
The Department of Public Information (DPI) yesterday issued a statement in response to a news item in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek about a miniaturizing of state advertisements to this newspaper but provided no explanations.
After a court battle over the ownership of the building housing the popular Shanta’s Puri Shop on Camp Street concluded last year, owner Deodat Persaud has decided to sell.
Stabroek Market will be closed today to members of the public because of overtopping caused by spring tides yesterday.
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) head Dr Vincent Adams has praised moves by oil major ExxonMobil and its prime contractors to hire specialists for in-house oversight of the environment as he highlighted that the regulatory body faces challenges in filling those positions because of the lack of local personnel and money to pay overseas specialists.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China hopes Beijing and Washington will resolve their trade dispute “with a calm and rational attitude”, Vice Commerce Minister Wang Shouwen said yesterday, ahead of talks in two weeks between the two sides.
Winston Jordan and Raphael Trotman, the ministers of Finance and Natural Resources respectively, say that they have filed their declarations to the Integrity Commission as required under the Integrity Commission Act, but Minister of Business Haimraj Rajkumar is yet to do so.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Congress is determined to get access to Donald Trump’s calls with Russian President Vladimir Putin and other world leaders, the U.S.
Twenty-nine youths and adults graduated from the Guyana Mining School and Training Centre Inc’s mineral prospecting and map reading level one course on Friday.
SINGAPORE, (Reuters) – An American who leaked the names of more than 14,000 HIV-positive people in Singapore has been sentenced to 24 months in a U.S.
Twenty thousand Guyanese no longer use landline telephone services and the numbers are continuing to decline, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph (GTT) company, Justin Nedd said last week.
HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong’s metro stations and roads re-opened today, after a chaotic weekend that saw police fire water cannon, tear gas and rubber bullets at protesters who set fires and threw petrol bombs outside government offices and across central districts.
(Trinidad Guardian) Questions are now being raised about the Ministry of Community Development, Culture and the Arts’ (MCDCA) decision to fork out $4,000 on a cake while ministry workers claim they had been facing problems in the recent past to get basic office supplies.
The Ministry of Public Telecommunications is preparing to roll out a pilot project that will see the digitisation of all employee records.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro’s government accused Peruvian authorities yesterday of fomenting “xenophobia” against the large Venezuelan exile population after a series of incidents of apparent mistreatment of migrants.
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