(Trinidad Express) A 36-year-old woman is dead while a 34-year-old man is in a serious condition at the Port of Spain General Hospital following a confrontation yesterday morning in Laventille.
(Jamaica Observer) SIX Jamaicans are among hundreds worldwide to benefit from the 2019 US Government-funded International Exchange programmes and fellowships — Fulbright and Humphrey.
(Jamaica Gleaner) A Portland family has been left heartbroken as what they said was a nearly two-decades-long abusive relationship ended in tragedy Tuesday night, leaving the matriarch dead, her common-law husband on the run, and other members of the family homeless.
(Trinidad Guardian) Just one week after complaints were raised about cats invading the Caroni Bird Sanctuary, disturbing photos have surfaced on social media showing the animals dead from apparent poisoning at the same site.
A 46-year-old clothes vendor was yesterday afternoon fatally stabbed by her husband following an argument and the man is now hospitalised in a critical condition after he subsequently tried to kill himself at the couple’s Nabaclis Sideline Dam, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home.
After meeting for over three hours yesterday, the government and opposition commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) failed to come consensus on the holding of constitutionally-due general elections.
An American Airlines (AA) aircraft, which was preparing to depart the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) yesterday morning, had its takeoff aborted after some of its tyres were damaged when it came into contact with temporary runway lights.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Domestic Airways Incorporated was yesterday fined a total of $75,000 for occupational health and safety violations, including failing to give notice of the death of Pilot Randy Liverpool earlier this year.
A cabinet maker was yesterday sentenced to five years in prison and fined $10.8 million after admitting to having possession of 60 pounds of cannabis for trafficking.
A sweets vendor is to spend the next five years in jail after he admitted to robbing fellow vendors in a gunpoint attack in Charlestown.
Azerbaijan is offering scholarships at its leading universities as well as oil and gas training to Guyanese.
The Mass Action People’s Movement (MAPM), which last week began lobbying for President David Granger to announce a date for elections and the resignation of his Cabinet, is hoping that with sustained effort it will be able to function as a civil society watchdog for years to come.
The Ministry of Natural Resources has donated four heat extractors to the Fairview Primary School at Kurupukari, in Region Eight, following an appeal for an intervention to address the building’s extreme heat conditions.
The Mahaica-Mahaicony-Abary Agriculture Development Authority (MMA/ADA) has said that it is owed over $1 billion in fees by some farmers, who nonetheless continue to benefit from its services to them, including drainage works.
Air Services Limited’s (ASL) wharf and bond facility at Soesdyke will be used for storage of tools and equipment for the oil and gas sector and will not house waste or toxic chemicals, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Executive Director Dr Vincent Adams has said.
Prior to the deaths of Hilrod Thomas and his two young daughters, Clarissa and Theresa Rozario, who were burnt in a fire at their at King and Robb streets home in 2014, one of the two accused in their deaths, Ganga Kishna, had threatened to burn the property down.
A porter was yesterday charged with fatally beating a drinking companion during an argument last Saturday night at Kumaka, in Region One.
BRASILIA/RIO DE JANEIRO (Reuters) – Brazil’s far-right President Jair Bolsonaro yesterday accused non-governmental organisations of burning down the Amazon rainforest to hurt his government, as a growing global outcry against the wildfires raged through social media.
Gilbert Thomas, the man who is accused of stabbing his ex-girlfriend and her new partner during an argument at Hururu Mission, Berbice River one week ago, was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with two counts of felonious wounding.
A young Mahdia miner has been given a two-year sentence for breaking and entering a shop and stealing $500,000 in cash and phone credit.
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