HAVANA, (Reuters) – The liberalization of marijuana laws is fueling drug trafficking but Cuba will not follow the trend of loosening restrictions on marijuana, a government official said yesterday.
The government on Wednesday presented $1M cheques to 13 secondary schools under the National Endowment for Science and Technology (NEST) programme to boost STEM (Science, Techno-logy, Engineering and Mathematics) education delivery.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump said today he did not make and does not possess any tapes of his conversations with James Comey, after suggesting last month that he might have recordings that could damage the former FBI director.
(Trinidad Guardian) The third victim of Monday’s triple murder at John John, East Port-of-Spain has been identified as Venezuelan national Miguel Matillo, 24.
CANCUN, Mexico (Reuters) – The Organization of American States failed yesterday to issue a formal declaration condemning Venezuela’s government for its handling of the political and economic crisis in the South American country, despite a last-minute push by Mexico and the United States.
A Sheet Anchor man yesterday morning beat and chopped his wife to death, according to eyewitnesses, and then jumped into the Canje Creek.
Opposition People’s Progressive Party/ Civic (PPP/C) parliamentarian, Juan Edghill has moved to pursue private criminal charges against APNU members of parliament who failed to submit Integrity Commission declarations from 2001-2015.
The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) has set the prices for the model houses displayed at the recently held Housing Solutions and Beyond exhibition at $6.5 million per unit, Minister in the Ministry of Communities, Valerie Patterson revealed yesterday.
Two brothers, inmates at the New Amsterdam Prison, were yesterday afternoon attacked by a gang of three men while returning to their cells at the prison.
Though the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) – a member of the governing coalition – has expressed dissatisfaction with the APNU+AFC government’s failure to honour its manifesto promise of constitutional reform, President David Granger is insisting that progress is being made.
The Mahaicony man who ingested 72 pellets filled with cocaine and was caught by officers of the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) boarding a LIAT Flight to Barbados on Sunday, was yesterday sentenced to three years imprisonment and ordered to pay a fine of $1.5 million by a city magistrate.
An East Coast Demerara (ECD) hairdresser and an overseas-based Guyanese were the victims of a robbery and hijacking after they stopped briefly in the vicinity of Ogle seawall, ECD on Tuesday night.
A pupil of F.E Pollard Primary School was pulled out of a trench, some distance away from his home, on Tuesday afternoon after he had been missing for a day.
Newly-appointed Chair-man of the Public Utilities Commission (PUC) Dela Britton said yesterday that the body is being “retooled” in preparation for the liberalisation of the telecommunications sector.
Despite vacancies being advertised for the Uitvlugt Estate Improvement Programme (UEIP), manager, Yudhisthira Mana is still encouraging the cane-harvesters and cane transporter operators from the Wales estate to “come on board.”
A Mon Repos youth was yesterday remanded to prison by the chief magistrate, after he denied simple larceny and damage to property charges which were brought against him at a city court.
Two fish vendors were yesterday granted $250,000 bail each by the chief magistrate, after they pleaded not guilty to a break and enter charge during which they also allegedly stole $2 million in cash and items.
President David Granger yesterday acknowledged that there was no consultation with the National Toshaos Council (NTC) prior to the establishment of a controversial Lands Commission of Inquiry (CoI) and said he will be meeting with a delegation today to further discuss the matter.
An Essequibo woman is in critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital, after she was stabbed several times about her body by her reputed husband, on Monday.
The suspects in the murder of Carlos Wong, a miner who was fatally chopped two Fridays ago, at Omai Landing, have turned themselves into the police.
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