When Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge and his delegation meet with Indian officials this week, Georgetown will be taking up New Delhi’s offer of support for the restructuring of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) and the sugar industry, Minister of State Joseph Harmon says.
With the PPP leadership irked at his attendance at a meeting with President David Granger on the sugar crisis, the end of the tenure of Komal Chand as head of the union, GAWU is near.
In wake of the discovery of an illegal road heading towards Venezuela, the security forces will be outfitted with additional resources to increase their ability to effectively patrol the country’s borders, according to Minister of State Joseph Harmon.
Residents of Ruimzigt on the West Coast of Demerara say they are concerned that sea defence works have resulted in the clearing of mangroves and other vegetation along the shoreline.
The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) has plans to soon begin work to expand its Kingston, Georgetown headquarters to create a more comfortable working environment for staff, according to the entity’s Chairman Justice (retired) James Patterson.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Donald Trump’s national security team is looking at options to counter the threat of China spying on U.S.
The suspect who was arrested on Monday shortly after cutlass-wielding bandits chopped and robbed Goberdhan and Haimwantie Mahabir at their Sisters Village, West Bank Demerara shop has been released from custody.
Efforts are underway by the Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) to further improve the quality of service provided to residents in the Plaisance/Sparendaam areas.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexican officials said yesterday the government was set to unleash a new wave of troops to crack down on criminal groups in regions where a surge in violence led to more than 25,000 murders last year.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russian police wrestled opposition leader Alexei Navalny into a patrol wagon yesterday moments after he appeared at a rally to urge voters to boycott what he said would be a rigged presidential election in March.
The Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) at a hearing before the acting Chief Justice on Friday, made no further complaints of documents provided by the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) being insufficient in its US$500 million Guyana Rice Development Board probe.
ADEN/MARIB, Yemen, (Reuters) – At least 10 people were killed and about 100 others were wounded as southern Yemeni separatists fought government troops in the southern city of Aden on Sunday, local medics said, deepening a rift between forces that had been on the same side.
STOCKHOLM, (Reuters) – Billionaire IKEA founder Ingvar Kamprad, who turned a business he launched as a teenager into one of the world’s best known furniture brands, has died at the age of 91, the Swedish company said on Sunday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Four men believed to be associated with the Rasta City Gang have been arrested in connection with the murder of prison officer Devendra Boodooram.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – U.S. supporters of improved relations with Cuba joined the top leadership of the Caribbean country today to inaugurate a replica of a New York statue of its independence hero Jose Marti.
The body of a male who about 6 last evening left his Cummings Lodge home in the company of some female friends to attend an entertainment show at the Ogle Community Centre, ECD , was later discovered in a pool of blood on the northern half of the Oleander Garden Public Road, ECD, the police said today.
Two East Coast Demerara residents are currently hospitalised at the Mahaicony Cottage Hospital in stable condition nursing several gunshots wounds while investigators are making efforts to apprehend the alleged shooter who is known by the victims, the police said today.
(Trinidad Guardian) Immigration officers have taken a vote of no confidence in T&T’s acting Chief Immigration Officer (CIO) Charmaine Gandhi-Andrews.
Former president Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday voiced his willingness to testify if a Commission of Inquiry (CoI) is set up to investigate the deaths of hundreds of persons during the unprecedented crime wave that began his tenure.
The Caribbean Agricultural Research Development Institute (CARDI) plans to roll out a mega stock feed project this year using some 5,000 acres of land that it has been granted by government to set up a farm and factory, sources say.
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