News

With funding through the Amerindian Development Fund (ADF), Dog Point, in the Cuyuni-Mazaruni, has acquired two boats to be used as income generators for community development.

As the Transport and Harbours Department (T&HD) waits on a decision from the Ministry of Public Infrastructure on salvaging the sunken MV Torani, a contractor has been retained to keep the vessel from floating away.

SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico,  (Reuters) – The mayor of Puerto Rico’s hurricane-battered capital spoke yesterday of thirsty children drinking from creeks.

An enforcement officer attached to the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) was taken into police custody yesterday after he allegedly fired off several shots early yesterday morning in public view while drinking at a bar in Sandy Babb Street, Kitty.

HAVANA,  (Reuters) – Cubans said they were both heartbroken and enraged by the United States’ decision yesterday to stop processing visas at its embassy in Havana that would further tear at the seams of families already divided by the Florida Straits.

Residents of Mocha Arcadia are pleading with the relevant authorities to have the main access bridge to their village repaired urgently.

Respect for law and order has returned to Dominica, Prime Minister Roosevelt Skerrit said last night in an address to his people and he announced the imminent visit by the UN Secretary General to the hurricane-stricken island and its plan to become a climate resilient country.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – The United States surprised a meeting of the World Trade Organization yesterday with an interpretation of dispute settlement rules some said was a bid to boost President Donald Trump’s plans to reform the global body.

Police have been granted an extension to further detain five men who are being questioned in connection with the murder of Fazal Shaheed and the wounding of two of his brothers during a robbery at Freeman Street, East La Penitence on Sunday.

Two men were each sentenced to nine months in jail yesterday by a city magistrate after they pleaded guilty to larceny charges.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Tom Price resigned under pressure from President Donald Trump yesterday in an uproar over Price’s use of costly private charter planes for government business.

GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Antigua and Barbuda asked the United States today  to settle a decade-old trade dispute to help the Caribbean country pay the $250 million cost of recovery from Hurricane Irma, which “completely decimated” the island of Barbuda.

The Ministry of Education yesterday awarded 74 schools from across the country for outstanding school attendance.

(Jamaica Observer) Stanley Motta Ltd, subsidiary of the Musson Group, is investing US$30 million in an integrated Tech Campus at 58 Half-Way-Tree Road in Kingston.

A grand prize worth over $100,000 will be up for grabs today when the Rotaract Club of Georgetown Central (RCGC) hosts “The El Dorado Quest: Secrets of the 592.”

CARACAS,  (Reuters) – Around 1 million unvaccinated Venezuelan children are susceptible to measles, a highly contagious disease that has re-emerged in the crisis-stricken South American nation, a group of doctors estimated yesterday.

(Jamaica Gleaner) The former household helper and her boyfriend who have been convicted of killing university lecturer Dr Peter Vogel have each been sentenced to 25 years in prison.

A licensed firearm holder employed by a Government Agency as an enforcement officer who allegedly discharged his 9MM pistol multiple times, in public view, at a popular night spot in Sandy Babb Street, Kitty early this morning, has been arrested and his weapon lodged.

The exit of the troubled Dynamic Airways from the Guyana market had been confirmed by its local representative, Captain Gerry Gouveia of Roraima Airways Limited.

  GENEVA,  (Reuters) – Antigua and Barbuda asked the United States today  to settle a decade-old trade dispute to help the Caribbean country pay the $250 million cost of recovery from Hurricane Irma, which “completely decimated” the island of Barbuda.