Oil services company Nalco Champion has not yet determined whether it will store chemicals at the John Fernandes Ltd (JFL) Inland Terminal at Industrial Site, Ruimveldt, though a company representative said that the location remains the best site.
The township of Mabaruma, in Region One, is now without electri-city as both of its generators have become non-functioning, Regional Chairman Brentnol Ashley has said.
Brian Mohan was yesterday committed to stand trial for the 2015 murder of Festival City resident Christopher Wharton, who was shot execution-style while sitting on the stairs of his home.
One week after the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) recommended the laying of a charge, police have yet to arraign Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) manager Andrew Kellman, who is accused of sexually assaulting a worker at the facility.
The sod was turned on Monday afternoon for a state-of-the-art $70 million mortuary in the compound of the National Psychiatric Hospital at New Amsterdam.
A water ambulance, which will serve the village of Baracara, in Region Six, was commissioned on Monday.
High Court judge Fidela Corbin-Lincoln has denied engineer Charles Ceres an injunction he was seeking against Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo, whom he has sued for libel.
Guyanese students currently studying at the Hugh Wooding Law School (HWLS), in Trinidad and Tobago, have welcomed the introduction of full scholarships to allow qualifying students to offset some of the almost $5 million in costs they face annually.
The Guyana Society for the Blind’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) programme has recorded an overall pass rate of 95% this year, representing the best performance by students since it was started in 2014.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said yesterday he was considering scaling back an effort that could have cut billions of dollars in foreign aid and would decide on the proposal – which faces strong opposition in Congress – within days.
Seven bids submitted for the construction of an Administrative and Quality Control Laboratory Building for the Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation’s Asphalt Plant were opened on Tuesday at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board, in Kingston, Georgetown.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – Wildfires raging in the Amazon rainforest have hit a record number this year, with 72,843 fires detected so far by Brazil’s space research center INPE, as concerns grow over right-wing President Jair Bolsonaro’s environmental policy.
The trial of Ganga Kishna and Avishkar Bissoon, who are accused of killing a man and his two young daughters after setting their Robb and King streets home on fire back in 2014, will officially commence this morning before Justice Brassington Reynolds at the Georgetown High Court.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – International donors have been significantly less generous in their support of Venezuelan migrants than other global refugee crises, Colombia’s foreign minister said yesterday, as he repeated a request for more aid money.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – Chile will begin budgeting for the costs of fighting climate change, Finance Minister Felipe Larraín announced yesterday, as receding glaciers and drought put a squeeze on water and natural resources in the world’s top copper producer.
Kevin Allicock, the Albouystown youth who police say shot at a City Constable after being caught while trying to break into the Bourda Market, is now a remanded prisoner.
(Reuters) – Facebook Inc said it is tweaking its policies to allow users to see and control the data that other websites and apps share with the social network to improve targeted advertising.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday he had authorised contact with the administration of U.S.
Seon Burch has been remanded to prison after being charged with stealing over one million dollars’ worth of articles.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – Companies should focus on social responsibilities as well as profits, the Business Roundtable, a group of corporate chief executives that includes the head of the largest U.S.
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