A team from the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) is expected to be deployed to the town of Mahdia following reported high winds which caused damage to a number of structures in the town, including a school building which had its roof blown off.
Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday disclosed that while the contract of former embattled head of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) Sydney James has not expired, he will not be returning to the unit.
(Trinidad Guardian) The debate over a ban on fireworks raged yesterday after a young male Red Kangaroo at the Emperor Valley Zoo died from “trauma and stress” it experienced after the Independence Day fireworks in the Queen’s Park Savannah.
Fraudsters are posing as officials of the National Industrial and Commercial and Investments Limited (NICIL) in order to sell properties belong to the government holding company, its acting Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Colvin Heath-London has said.
A roadmap that seeks to improve Guyana’s trade-related systems was officially launched yesterday with officials underscoring that its implementation would make Guyana a more attractive destination for foreign direct investment.
Workers attached to the Rose Hall Mayor and Town Council on Thursday downed tools demanding minimum wage along with payments owed to them for the first seven months of the year.
A three-year sentence was yesterday handed down to taxi driver Kacey Chapman, one of three men jointly charged with illegal possession of guns and ammunition that were discovered in his car at High and Princes, Georgetown, last year.
HARARE, (Reuters) – Robert Mugabe, the bush war guerrilla who led Zimbabwe to independence and crushed his foes during nearly four decades of rule as his country descended into poverty, hyperinflation and unrest, died yesterday.
A man has been sentenced to three months in prison after pleading guilty to assaulting his wife by whipping her with a cable.
(Jamaica Gleaner) He left Savanna-la-Mar in Westmoreland for a visit to The Bahamas in 1990, but his stay was made permanent, having met his now wife there.
LETICIA, Colombia, (Reuters) – Seven Amazonian countries yesterday signed a pact to protect the world’s largest tropical forest via disaster response coordination and satellite monitoring, amid recent fires that torched thousands of square miles of the jungle.
A man was yesterday sentenced to three months behind bars for spitting on a woman who insulted him.
The tug and barge that crashed into the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) on Monday was not anchored in a correct position, the investigation by the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) has found.
BENGALURU, (Reuters) – India lost contact with a spacecraft it was attempting to land on the moon yesterday, the chairman of the Indian Space Research Organisation (ISRO) said, in a setback to the nation’s ambitious plans to become the first country to probe the unexplored lunar south pole.
Attorney General Basil Williams SC has moved to have the High Court strike out the application by attorney Anil Nandlall to compel Cabinet’s resignation.
A Canefield man is now hospitalised after a collision resulted in him being pinned by a minibus along the Rose Hall, Canje Public Road yesterday morning.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele yesterday unveiled a new independent commission to tackle corruption, taking inspiration from a U.N.-backed
MARSH HARBOUR, Bahamas, (Reuters) – The smell of death hung over parts of Great Abaco Island in the northern Bahamas yesterday, as relief workers sifted through the debris of shattered homes and buildings in a search expected to dramatically drive up the death toll from Hurricane Dorian.
As part of an ongoing Central Government support programme for all municipalities throughout Guyana, the Communities Ministry on Thursday donated a new $45 million garbage truck to the Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC).
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – An American Airlines mechanic was ordered temporarily detained yesterday after he was charged with purposely damaging an aircraft in July amid a dispute between the airline and its mechanics union involving stalled contract negotiations.
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