CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas, (Reuters) – The eye of Hurricane Harvey began to push onto the Texas coast yesterday bringing with it winds of up to 156 miles per hour and 13-foot ocean surges as the most powerful storm in over a decade bore down on the mainland United States.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A former Guinea government minister was sentenced to seven years in prison yesterday following his conviction of laundering $8.5 million in bribes that U.S.
A miner was yesterday fined $50,000 after he admitted to stealing a taxi driver’s cellphone, after borrowing it to make a call.
BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Thailand’s former Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra has fled to Dubai, senior members of her party said on Saturday, a day after she failed to show up for a negligence ruling in which she faced up to 10 years in prison.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Law enforcement sources say controversial Muslim Sheikh Abdullah el-Faisal, who was arrested yesterday is wanted in the United States on terrorism-related charges.
GUATEMALA CITY, (Reuters) – Guatemala’s attorney general and a U.N-backed anti-graft body are seeking to investigate President Jimmy Morales in a probe into suspected illicit campaign financing, the International Commission Against Impunity in Guatemala (CICIG) said on Friday.
(Reuters) – The billionaire head of South Korea’s Samsung Group, Jay Y.
An alleged promise to obtain a car for someone landed a Grove resident before a city magistrate yesterday on a charge of obtaining money by false pretence.
The Ministry of Education today notified of the passing of Guyanese craft producer Petal Frank in Barbados.
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI), in collaboration with the Guyana Police Force, is informing the general public that from Monday to Friday, 6:30hrs to 9:30hrs, Queen Street (from Kitty Public Road to David Street) and David Street (from Alexander Street to Vlissengen Road) will become one-ways with two lanes heading south and west respectively.
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo today submitted a list of six names of candidates for the chair of GECOM and it includes former Chairman Joe Singh.
PPP/C MP and parliamentary whip, Gail Teixeira says the Head of SOCU, Sydney James has no business appearing before the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) on lands and it appears to have strayed from its gazetted terms of reference.
PANCHKULA, India, (Reuters) – Violent protests erupted in India’s Haryana state on Friday, killing at least 29 people, after a court convicted a self-styled “godman” of raping two women, angering thousands of his supporters who said he was innocent, the state chief minister said.
BANGKOK, (Reuters) – Ousted Thai prime minister Yingluck Shinawatra has fled the country ahead of a verdict against her in a negligence trial brought by the junta that overthrew her, sources close to the Shinawatra family said on Friday.
While recognising the government for providing it with some room to grow, the National Toshaos Council (NTC) last night criticised the APNU+AFC administration for limiting funding to it and failing to reconstitute key bodies such as the Indigenous Peoples Commission (IPC).
Minister of State Joseph Harmon yesterday received a courtesy call from Executive members of the First Bauxite Corporation (FBX) during which he was updated on their project at Bonasika, Cuyuni-Mazaruni which is due to begin next year with an investment of approximately US$50M.
A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) rank was yesterday released on $1 million bail after he was charged with causing the death of a pensioner, who was struck down five months ago along the Soesdyke Public Road.
Chairman of the Forbes Burnham Foundation, Vincent Alexander, yesterday petitioned for the return of ancestral lands that were “unjustly” transferred from their rightful owners and for the administrative authority of local villages to once again be vested in the village councils.
The Ministry of Social Protection is warning private security companies to obey the law as it relates to the minimum wage or face the attendant penalties.
The man who was killed almost two weeks ago after being struck along the Soesdyke Public Road by a vehicle driven by a police constable is still to be identified.
The ePaper edition, on the Web & in stores for Android, iPhone & iPad.
Included free with your web subscription. Learn more.
