Saying that only a two-thirds majority of the National Assembly can extend the March 21st constitutional deadline for the holding of general elections, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday maintained that the David Granger-led APNU+AFC administration is defying the High Court by not announcing a date for elections.
Rodrick Thomas, a security guard who is one of the two men held in connection with the fatal shooting of taxi driver Kelvin Walters, was yesterday charged with murder.
Following bomb threats that forced the cancellation of classes at the Turkeyen Campus of the University of Guyana (UG), the police have detained a female student for questioning and she has since denied responsibility.
Chartered accountant Christopher Ram yesterday said that new restricted tendering thresholds unveiled by the government are illegal as they usurp authority that is now ensconced in the Public Procurement Commission (PPC).
(Trinidad Guardian) An Asian mafia connection is fuelling the multi-million dollar world of sex slaves in Trinidad and Tobago, intelligence sources close to the investigation have revealed to Guardian Media.
Diplomats and Ministry of the Presidency staff are among the latest public officials identified by the Integrity Commission as those who have failed to declare their assets and liabilities in keeping with the law but it remains unclear when legal action will be taken against anyone already in breach.
Banks DIH Limited yesterday welcomed the UniCarriers Forklift brand to Guyana as it launched a local dealership just opposite its Thirst Park headquarters at Ruimveldt.
The National Working Group on the Minamata Convention on mercury reconvened yesterday and Minister of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Sydney Allicock said its reconstitution presents real hope for the total phase-out of mercury in local mining.
Three Chinese nationals recently arrested for illegal entry are wanted for murder in Brazil and China.
A taxi driver and his teenage co-defendant were yesterday both given jail sentences and fined $6.3 million each after they were found guilty of trafficking 26 pounds of cannabis.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The United States is holding direct communications with members of Venezuela’s military urging them to abandon President Nicolas Maduro and is also preparing new sanctions aimed at increasing pressure on him, a senior White House official said.
A city magistrate yesterday remanded a vendor, who was charged with having a large amount of cannabis in his possession after his mother reported him to the police.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker snapped back yesterday at newly emboldened Democrats in Congress who are pushing for information on the special counsel’s Russia probe as they try to put President Donald Trump’s administration under greater scrutiny.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – A former Miss Costa Rica beauty queen has filed a formal complaint saying the country’s ex-president, Oscar Arias, sexually assaulted her in 2015, adding to a growing number of women lodging accusations against the renowned statesman.
A fraud accused is now on $100,000 bail after denying that he acquired more than $2 million in phone cards by claiming that they were intended for Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence.
LONDON, (Reuters) – British actor Albert Finney, who rose to fame on a post-war wave of gritty, working-class dramas and became an Oscar-nominated international star, has died at the age of 82.
An adjournment was granted on Wednesday in the proceedings against former PPP/C Minister of Housing Irfaan Ali, who is facing 19 charges of conspiracy to defraud by common law, pending the outcome of a stay application in the High Court.
(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Wednesday participated in the official ground-breaking ceremony for the US$250-million ($34-billion), 1,000-room H10 Ocean Coral Spring now under construction in Trelawny.
(Jamaica Gleaner) ADS Global Limited, the company that operated Fly Jamaica’s call centre five years ago, is appealing the US$4.2 million awarded to the airline in December for breach of contract.
Almost three days after they fell into the Essequibo River, the bodies of two farmers were recovered yesterday morning.
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