An improved water filtration system is expected to be funded by a $3.5 billion loan from the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB), according to Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) Managing Director Dr Richard Van West-Charles.
The Lamaha Gardens Management Committee has cited increased crime, use of roads in the community as “racetracks” and zoning violations as major ongoing problems it wants addressed.
Twenty-nine girls who participated in the Ministry of Public Telecommunication’s ‘Guyanese Girls Code’ camp were yesterday awarded certificates for their successful completion of the five-week training programme during a mini-exhibition of the projects that they developed.
JACKSONVILLE, Florida (Reuters) – Hurricane Dorian punched northwest yesterday to threaten Georgia and the Carolinas, possibly sparing Florida a direct hit, as the Bahamas braced for catastrophic waves and wind from the muscular category 4 storm.
Gun-toting bandits yesterday afternoon invaded Rambarran’s Enterprise in Campbellville, Georgetown, where they held employees of the poultry business at gunpoint before carting off an undisclosed amount of cash.
LONDON/BELFAST (Reuters) – Thousands of people across Britain and Northern Ireland protested yesterday against Prime Minister Boris Johnson’s decision to suspend parliament for about a month before the deadline for the country to leave the European Union.
(Barbados Nation) A major step has been taken towards having a medical marijuana industry in Barbados with the piloting of the Medicinal Cannabis Industry Bill 2019 in the House of Assembly on Friday.
STOCKHOLM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indigenous peoples from the Amazon to the Arctic are being left out of the global conversation on water property rights, a United Nations’ indigenous rights expert has warned.
A robber was shot by the police yesterday morning after he and an accomplice attempted to rob a man at Windsor Estate, Providence, East Bank Demerara.
(Reuters) – Five people were killed, including a shooter, and around 21 were injured in a gun rampage in the cities of Midland and Odessa in west Texas yesterday, police and a local television station reported.
(Trinidad Guardian) Education Minister Anthony Garcia on Friday admitted that the termination of 199 non-academic University of T&T (UTT) staff will be a traumatic experience, but said it was the only way the institution could survive.
By: Dr. Jan Yves Remy and Alicia Nicholls This year, the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) delivered two substantive rulings in a dispute aptly dubbed by the media as the ‘cement saga’, a reference to a long-running spat involving regional competitors in the cement business: Rock Hard Distribution Limited, and its subsidiary Rock Hard Cement Ltd (RHCL), on the one hand; and Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) and its subsidiary Arawak Cement Company Ltd (ACCL) on the other.
(Reuters) – Five people were killed, including a shooter, and around 21 were injured in a gun rampage in the cities of Midland and Odessa in west Texas today, police and a local television station reported.
Hurricane Dorian spun west today, putting Georgia and the Carolinas in the path of a possible landfall as well as Florida, where some beaches were all but deserted on the holiday weekend as visitors braced for the dangerous category 4 storm.
Caribbean Airlines today announced that flights to The Bahamas and Florida have been cancelled as a result of the approach of Hurricane Dorian.
(Barbados Nation) A mother’s worst fear was realised today. Barbara Dorant-Layne broke down after identifying the body taken from a shallow grave at Walkers, St Andrew, this afternoon as that of her son Rahim Ward.
(Barbados Nation) On Thursday, Jason Renaldo Ashton declared his head was hot and that was why he told a man “what I had to tell him”.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Donald Tapia, the new United States (US) ambassador to Jamaica, arrived in Jamaica yesterday.
(Trinidad Newsday) A taxi driver conned by a woman who claimed to work for a television station believes the culprit is the same person who used a similar story and stole $300 from the wallet of a print-shop owner in San Fernando last week.
HONG KONG, (Reuters) – Hong Kong police fired tear gas and water cannon today as pro-democracy protesters threw petrol bombs in the latest in a series of clashes that have plunged the Chinese-ruled city into its worst political crisis in decades.
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