Route 32 bus goes up in flames after Hague accident
A Route 32 (Georgetown-Parika) minibus went up in flames yesterday afternoon after a collision with a utility pole at Hague, West Coast Demerara.
A Route 32 (Georgetown-Parika) minibus went up in flames yesterday afternoon after a collision with a utility pole at Hague, West Coast Demerara.
CUCUTA, Colombia/TIENDITAS, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Trucks carrying humanitarian aid for crisis-stricken Venezuela arrived in the Colombian border city of Cucuta yesterday as diplomatically-isolated President Nicolas Maduro appeared set to block its entry amid an escalating political crisis.
The Alliance for Change (AFC) would not be using state resources to campaign for the next elections, according to party officials, who also said that it already screens its donors.
Although grappling with challenges related to climate change; wide fiscal deficits and high public debt; as well as high unemployment, the Caribbean Development Bank (CDB) yesterday projected that the region’s economy is expected to grow by 2% in 2019 and Guyana was one of the fastest growing economies last year.
OTTAWA/TORONTO, (Reuters) – Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau yesterday denied a newspaper report that his office had tried to pressure the former justice minister to intervene in the prosecution of engineering and construction firm SNC-Lavalin Group.
One of the two suspects in the murder of taxi driver, Kelvin Walters, is being questioned by the police, Crime Chief Lyndon Alves on Wednesday told Stabroek News.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – A United Nations-led inquiry into the murder of Saudi journalist Jamal Khashoggi said yesterday that evidence pointed to a brutal crime “planned and perpetrated” by Saudi officials.
The Chairman of Region Six, David Armogan, yesterday revoked the seats of two government regional councillors after they failed to attend the Regional Democratic Council statutory meetings for several months now.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – Swiss prosecutors said yesterday they had closed a money-laundering inquiry into a son of the President of Equatorial Guinea with an arrangement to sell 25 confiscated luxury cars to fund social programmes in the former Spanish colony.
Residents of certain parts of the Blygezeight area are being negatively affected by the ongoing works for the Sheriff Street-Mandela Avenue upgrade project.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The spiraling political crisis in Virginia, which threatens to take out three top state Democrats with racial scandals or sexual assault accusations, poses a stiff test for a party thriving on its growing strength with women and minorities.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Acting U.S. Attorney General Matthew Whitaker has agreed to testify today before the House Judiciary Committee, the Justice Department said yesterday, after he threatened to not show up following the panel’s warning that it could subpoena him.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – More allegations of sexual misconduct have been made against Nobel Peace Prize winner and former Costa Rican President Oscar Arias, with five women saying he harassed or assaulted them, in a high-profile example of the #MeToo movement in Latin America.
The numbers of children in Guyana who have been diagnosed with leprosy has more than doubled over the course of 2018, according to statistics.
(Trinidad Express) Purported Unruly ISIS gang member Allan Muhammad died yesterday morning.
A pump attendant was on Tuesday granted bail on a charge that he wounded a man who asked him for his change after he purchased beers on his behalf.
(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc Chief Executive Jeff Bezos posted a blog yetserday saying the National Enquirer’s parent company American Media Inc (AMI) tried to blackmail him with the threat of publishing “intimate photos.”
(Trinidad Guardian) A 61-year-old man, who was left permanently scarred after doused with acid by his sister-in-law, has finally received compensation after an almost two-decade-long legal battle.
FREETOWN, (Reuters) – The brutal rape of a young girl by her uncle in Sierra Leone became the rallying point for a campaign that yesterday pushed President Julius Maada Bio to declare the prevalence of sexual violence a national emergency.
(Trinidad Express) A Moruga fisherman was fined $35,000 for possession of protected animals found in a mini zoo at his home on Wednesday.
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