Minister of Public Security, Khemraj Ramjattan on Wednesday convened the first meeting of the National CariSECURE Task Force which is aimed at bolstering evidence-driven crime prevention.
A potential oil spill and the effects on the environment remained among the main concerns raised when the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continued its ongoing public scoping meetings on the oil company’s Liza Phase 2 Development Project in Region Three last Friday.
Two brothers were yesterday released on $150,000 bail each by a city court after they denied stealing items from the Marriott Hotel bond.
The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has launched an investigation into the circumstances that caused the death of Handel Payne, a young miner who met his demise after the wall of the Potaro pit he was working in collapsed on him.
The two persons who were held in connection with the death of Hemchand Dalchand, the 20-year-old man whose body was discovered on Sunday morning along the Oleander Gardens Public Road, have been released.
The Ministry of Natural Resources is assuring the small miners of the Rupununi that their concerns raised in a recent letter about the ongoing dispute with Romanex Guyana Exploration Ltd.
A Brazilian national, who was allegedly held with an unlicensed shotgun and ammunition in the Rupununi this week, yesterday accused members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) of brutally assaulting him.
(Reuters) – Amazon.com Inc yesterday reported a profit near $2 billion, the largest in its history, as the online retailer drew millions of new customers to its Prime fast-shipping club for the holiday season and as changes to U.S.
The man who opened fire on a group of domino players at Mahaica last Saturday night leaving two persons injured has since fled the jurisdiction.
The active involvement of unions, particularly the teachers union, is critical for true and serious reform of the education sector, according to Coretta McDonald, General Secretary of the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU).
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. State Department’s third-ranking official, Tom Shannon, said yesterday he was stepping down, the latest senior career diplomat to exit since President Donald Trump took office a year ago.
Saying that the nearly six decades of rule by the two main political parties have not enhanced Guyana’s development, analyst Ramon ‘Rambo’ Gaskin on Tuesday launched a new political party.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The White House was working yesterday to clear the release of a Republican memo alleging bias within the FBI and Justice Department against President Donald Trump as they investigated contacts between his 2016 presidential campaign and Russia, according to an administration official.
NEW DELHI/PORT VICTORIA, (Reuters) – India has signed a 20-year pact with the Seychelles to build an airstrip and a jetty for its navy in the island chain, the two countries said, as the South Asian nation steps up a contest with China for influence in the Indian Ocean.
The Mayor and Town Clerk, councillors— past and present—as well as family members of the late city councillor Junior Garrett, gathered for an extraordinary statutory meeting on Wednesday in his honour.
National cyclist Alonzo Greaves was on Wednesday brought before a city court on charges of assaulting the mother of his child and damaging property.
Ex-sugar workers from the Wales Estate say that they feel discriminated against as they are yet to receive severance payments, 13 months after the estate’s closure and are calling on government to look into their “plight that is making life hard.”
AUSTIN, Texas, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson yesterday raised the prospect that the Venezuelan military could decide to oust President Nicolas Maduro but said he did not know whether that would happen.
(Reuters) – Los Angeles County homicide detectives have named actor Robert Wagner a “person of interest” in the probe of the unexplained 1981 drowning of his wife, actress Natalie Wood, saying he was the last person with her before she vanished off Southern California.
AUSTIN, Texas, (Reuters) – U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tillerson warned Latin American countries yesterday against excessive reliance on economic ties with China, saying the region did not need new imperial powers.
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