Residents of Backstreet, Charity, Essequibo Coast were last night forced to spend the night in over one and a half feet of floodwaters after construction being done on a koker in the area caused a breach in a main dam; the wooden koker is being replaced with a concrete structure.
A Bartica resident was yesterday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennon after being charged with trafficking of narcotics.
Beverley Persaud, who allegedly masterminded the 2015 murder of her block maker husband, was yesterday committed to stand trial.
Learning of an executive meeting at the Alliance for Change (AFC) Headquarters in Kitty, the Movement against VAT on Education gathered less than a dozen persons and picketed yesterday afternoon.
A teacher and farmer were on Friday last charged with trafficking in narcotics at the Wales Magistrate’s Court and remanded to prison.
A Bartica resident was yesterday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennon after being charged with trafficking of narcotics.
Police in ‘F’ Division have arrested a Brazilian miner who was found at Black Water Backdam, Konawaruk, Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni) with an unlicensed shotgun and cartridge on Sunday afternoon.
APNU Councillor Heston Bostwick has tabled a motion that if passed could see councilors sanctioned for “gross misconduct” against the Mayor.
Eighteen students of the Open Doors Centre, a vocational training institution for persons with disabilities, graduated yesterday with skills in information technology, carpentry and joinery, garment construction and electrical installation.
Three accused robbers were yesterday committed to stand trial for allegedly abducting two men, including a policeman a 2015 attack in which $42 million were stolen from the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) during a transfer to the Bourda Post Office.
Caribbean youth leaders have called for a review of the age of consent as it is not aligned with the age when most young people are allowed to access sexual and reproductive health services.
SEOUL (Reuters) – A nuclear-powered US submarine made a port call in South Korea today in a show of force amid concerns that North Korea may mark the foundation of its military with a missile launch or a nuclear test, defying US and Chinese pressure.
Vaccination week was officially launched yesterday at the Dorothy Bailey Health Centre, under the theme ‘Get vax to celebrate a healthy tomorrow.’
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The United States will impose preliminary anti-subsidy duties averaging 20 per cent on imports of Canadian softwood lumber, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross said yesterday, escalating a long-running trade dispute between the two neighbours.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Venezuelans erected barricades with garbage and even bathtubs yesterday and snarled traffic with mass “sit-ins” along major thoroughfares to press their demand for early elections as anti-government protests entered a fourth week.
For potential homeowners seeking comfort, style and quality, at a price that is affordable, the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CH&PA) may have what they are looking for at the Perseverance Housing Development, East Bank Demerara.
The Criminal Investigations Department (CID) of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) has received much needed human resources with the addition of 60 detectives and aides all of whom would have successfully completed the recently concluded CID Induction Course No 1/2017.
SANTIAGO (Reuters) – A strong earthquake of magnitude 6.9 struck off the west coast of Chile yesterday, rocking the capital Santiago and briefly causing alarm along the Pacific Coast but sparing the quake-prone nation of any serious damage.
(Reuters) – The leader of a 2004 coup that toppled Haitian President Jean-Bertrand Aristide pleaded guilty yesterday to a money laundering charge related to an international drug trafficking scheme, the US Department of Justice said.
PARIS (Reuters) – France’s outgoing president, Francois Hollande, yesterday urged people to back centrist Emmanuel Macron in a vote to choose his successor next month and reject far-right leader Marine Le Pen, whose place in the run-off represented a “risk” for France.
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