The State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) is preparing itself to play its role in safeguarding the state’s property when oil production begins, according to its Director Professor Clive Thomas, who says the industry traditionally brings “illegality and corruption.”
(Reuters) – Data analytics firm Cambridge Analytica harvested private information from more than 50 million Facebook users in developing techniques to support President Donald Trump’s 2016 election campaign, the New York Times and London’s Observer reported on Saturday.
MIAMI (Reuters) – Engineers and state and university officials met hours before a new pedestrian bridge collapsed in southern Florida, killing six people, but concluded a crack in the structure was not a safety concern, Florida International University said on Saturday.
The Movement against Parking Meters (MAPM) has said it will continue to fight for the removal of Georgetown Mayor Patricia Chase-Green and Town Clerk Royston King as well as transparency and accountability in the spending of tax dollars.
SAN CRISTOBAL, Venezuela (Reuters) – A western Venezuelan city began to issue its own currency this week to alleviate the hyper-inflationary country’s cash crisis.
The police are still on the trail of two suspects in the murder of Linden shop owner Romel Edison Gomes.
The Commonwealth Tree, planted five years ago in the compound of the Public Buildings in Georgetown, was unveiled last Thursday by Speaker of the House Dr.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Security expert Lieutenant Commander George Overton says that crime in Jamaica is far more sophisticated than previously thought and that the authorities have failed to accept the level of organised criminality at play.
(Trinidad Guardian) Seven people were killed in less than 24 hours between Thursday night and yesterday evening, taking the murder toll to 117 for the year.
ExxonMobil says it won’t seek to recover the US$18m signing bonus it paid to Guyana.
Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) yesterday launched a massive new rum ageing warehouse and also announced that an interim deal with GuySuCo will enable it access to molasses this year for its rum production.
With police admitting that one of the three accused robbery suspects killed along the Seawall Public Road, in Georgetown did not have a criminal record as they had claimed, the families of the men yesterday called for an inquiry to be mounted as they maintained the belief that the men were unlawfully killed.
While it is already executing a campaign plan for the 2020 general elections, the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has not yet chosen a Presidential or Prime Ministerial candidate, Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said.
After a bus contracted by the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) to transport a disconnection crew was torched in Buxton, East Coast Demerara, Managing Director Dr Richard Van West-Charles yesterday said the company would not be intimidated and he made an appeal to residents of the community to stand up against lawlessness.
A Number Four Village, West Coast Berbice man died yesterday morning after jumping into the path of a car that was driving along the Number Five Village Public Road.
The government finally acknowledged in Parliament on Thursday that the Caribbean watchdog has said that a key part of the anti-money laundering framework is unacceptable and this sparked heated exchanges with the PPP/C that culminated in the APNU+AFC benches securing the deferral of a related motion by one vote.
A Port Mourant, Corentyne family of four is now traumatised after armed bandits invaded their home on Thursday evening, threatened their lives, assaulted them and then carted off over $1 million in jewellery and other valuables.
President David Granger yesterday promised former guards in Berbice, who were laid off by a private security firm, that he would seek to resolve their dispute with the company, which they say has not paid salaries since last December.
A first of its kind detergent refill centre has been established at Third Avenue, Diamond Housing Scheme, on the East Bank of Demerara, to provide consumers with quality cleaning products, while promoting the reuse of plastic bottles.
A Cornelia Ida, West Coast Demerara businesswoman was robbed at her home after returning from a commercial bank on Wednesday morning.
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