HAVANA, (Reuters) – Communist-run Cuba unveiled tighter regulations on non-agricultural cooperatives yesterday, including curbs on their prices, in keeping with a broader push to increase control of the growing non-state sector.
NAIROBI (Reuters) – Seven eggs from the world’s last two remaining northern white rhinos have been successfully fertilised artificially, reviving hopes of saving the endangered animals, scientists said last Monday.
GOMA, Democratic Republic of Congo (Reuters) – The death toll from Democratic Republic of Congo’s year-long Ebola outbreak has climbed above 2,000, government data showed on Friday, as responders battle to overcome community mistrust and widespread security problems.
Guyana’s Department of the Environment today expressed concern about the forest fires raging in the Amazon, calling them a global emergency.
(Trinidad Guardian) On the day Dale Lemessy got his letter of retrenchment, he got the shocking news that his wife Dana was having triplets.
(Barbados Nation) More than a year after a legal fight began over a $5 bank fee, the matter is yet to be heard by the Fair Trading Commission (FTC).
(Trinidad Guardian) Public Services’ Association (PSA) President Watson Duke has been released on $250,000 bail after appearing in court to answer a sedition charge.
(Trinidad Express) A veteran lifeguard fell ill while on duty at Vessigny Beach in La Brea and died on Wednesday.
The PNCR today said it will continue to advocate for a credible list of electors.
LONDON, (Reuters) – After more than 1,000 days of political brawling, hordes of headlines and dizzying lurches in sterling, the battle of Brexit enters the endgame.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Superintendent Vernon Ellis, the commander of the St James Police Division, says criminal suspects are now pleading guilty in court before the return of DNA test results with the hope of getting lighter sentences.
(Trinidad Guardian) Former director of intelligence at the Strategic Services Agency (SSA) Carlton Dennie has backpedalled on accusing Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley of directly instructing him to fire all East Indians from the agency back in 2015.
All of the Amerindian communities visited in Region 7 as part of a land tenure assessment have reported a land and resource conflict with external parties.
According to Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo, a merger of House to House registration (HtH) data with the National Register of Registrants Database will delay general elections until April, 2020.
The lawyers for Guyanese murder accused Marcus Bisram have filed a petition to have their arguments reheard in an appeal of a New York district court’s order to extradite him to Guyana, where he is due to stand trial for murder.
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) yesterday said it held a “cordial and fruitful” meeting with the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM).
A Kildonan hire car driver was charged yesterday with the murder of Spring-lands farmer Nigel Matthews, who was found stabbed to death in the wee hours of Monday morning.
Guyana’s first oil production vessel, the Liza Destiny, has arrived in the Stabroek Block, a development in ExxonMobil’s preparation for first oil by 2020.
As part of its ongoing programme to improve the supply of electricity to its customers, Guyana Power and Light (GPL) on Wednesday energised a new 13,800 volt Express Feeder (distribution line) from Vriesland to the Vreed-en-Hoop (VEH) Power Plant, a distance of over 16 kilometers.
Cassandra Boucher, the police constable charged with dousing her then boyfriend with acid last year, maintained her innocence under cross-examination at her trial on Wednesday.
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