BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Lebanese President Michel Aoun, who has refused to accept Saad Hariri’s resignation as prime minister unless Hariri returns from Saudi Arabia, welcomed comments from Hariri that he plans to come home soon, palace sources and visitors said yesterday.
A West Coast Berbice money changer was robbed on Sunday morning of $1.2M in cash by armed men while he was standing on the Rosignol Public Road conducting business.
Nineteen employees were recognised for 20 years of service to Banks DIH Limited during the Company’s Annual 20-Year-Club Luncheon held on Friday at the Sports Club at Thirst Park, a release from Banks DIH said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell led a chorus of establishment Republicans yesterday urging Roy Moore, the party’s Senate candidate in Alabama, to quit the race as a fifth woman came forward with allegations Moore had sexual contact with teenage girls decades ago.
A West Coast Berbice money changer was robbed on Sunday morning of $1.2M in cash by armed men while he was standing on the Rosignol Public Road conducting business.
The Guyana Delegation urged the Republic of Suriname’s delegation at the Indigenous Peoples in Border Regions, ACTO meeting to desist from the breach of international protocols, after a portion of Guyana’s territory appeared on their map.
ANKARA, (Reuters) – Iran said yesterday that rescue operations have ended in areas hit by a powerful weekend earthquake that killed at least 450 people and injured thousands of others, state television reported.
A post-mortem examination yesterday confirmed that the Zeelugt fisherman who fell overboard in the Waini River last week drowned, but his widow believes there is more to his death, which occurred on his first trip back on open-water after a three-year break.
Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken on Friday urged one hundred and thirty three new policemen and women to use their leisure time to engage their prospective communities and to stay out of trouble.
A delegation consisting of President of the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI), Deodat Indar, Nicholas Boyer and Major General (rtd) Norman McLean, will this week participate in a one-week fact-finding mission in St John’s Newfoundland and Labrador in Canada.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – An Australian senator announced plans to resign yesterday, the eighth lawmaker to become embroiled in a citizenship crisis that has already cost Prime Minister Malcolm Turnbull’s government its majority in parliament.
(Jamaica Observer) KINGSTON, Jamaica — Dancehall artiste Unicorn was on Sunday shot dead by unknown assailants on Bowens Road in Kingston 13.
Several victims of domestic violence along with their relatives, friends and supporters marched through the streets of New Amsterdam on Saturday afternoon to raise awareness about the social ill that has been affecting women countrywide for decades.
The Guyana Delegation urged the Republic of Suriname’s delegation at the Indigenous Peoples in Border Regions, ACTO meeting to desist from the breach of international protocols, after a portion of Guyana’s territory appeared on their map.
YANGON, (Reuters) – Myanmar’s army released a report yesterday denying all allegations of rape and killings by security forces, having days earlier replaced the general in charge of the operation that drove more than 600,000 Rohingya Muslims to flee to Bangladesh.
A cashier/receptionist who was employed at the Woodlands Hospital and a security guard were today charged with stealing a little over $1 million from the institution.
DUBLIN, (Reuters) – Irish musician and activist Bob Geldof called Myanmar leader Aung San Suu Kyi “a hand maiden to genocide” on Monday as he returned his Freedom of the City of Dublin award in protest over his fellow recipient’s response to the repression of Rohingya Muslims.
(Trinidad Guardian) Hundreds of arriving passengers had to wait for several hours yesterday to be cleared by immigration as only two officers were on duty as several international flights touched down at Piarco International Airport.
Minister of Business Dominic Gaskin agrees with the Private Sector Commission’s (PSC) condemnation of the Guyana Power and Light Company’s (GPL) management which it says seems to hold no solution to a reliable power supply.
Minister of Communities, Ronald Bulkan has written to the city’s Town Clerk saying that the corporal who was dismissed for supposedly failing to take action during an alleged sexual assault on a minor by a lance corporal, must be given a fair hearing.
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