HAMBURG, Germany, (Reuters) – When port manager Axel Mattern looks out onto the Elbe River from his office in Hamburg’s historic warehouse district, he can literally count the rising number of container ships leaving Germany’s biggest harbour.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday he expected delayed state polls to be held this year, although opponents have demanded a broader general election to replace him in protests that have sparked 29 deaths.
(Reuters) – Tornadoes ripped through an East Texas county on Saturday evening, killing at least four people and injuring dozens of others, while high winds, falling trees and floods killed five others in neighboring states, according to news reports.
TEPIC, Mexico, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Mexico has become the first country in the Americas to eliminate trachoma, but the world’s leading infectious cause of blindness remains endemic in Brazil, Colombia and Guatemala, the World Health Organization said.
BRIDGETOWN, Barbados, CMC – Phlegmatic right-hander Roston Chase carved out a fluent unbeaten hundred to avert another West Indies catastrophe and frustrate Pakistan, on the opening day of the second Test at Kensington Oval here today.
The Police say they are investigating the murder of Brian Charles Yearwood, 16 years, a student of Covent Garden Secondary School and of 69 Public Road, Grove, EBD, which occurred at about 8 last night at Covent Garden Nursery School Compound.
(Trinidad Express) The government has acquired two companies from collapsed insurance giant CLICO—Occidental Investments Ltd and Oceanic Properties Ltd—at no cost.
The counting of ballots for the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) elections continued yesterday amidst claims by the elections officer that attempts were being made to disrupt the process, while the lone challenger to incumbent President Partick Yarde alleged that there have been several discrepancies, including tampering with ballots.
Kwatamang, one of the five satellite villages of Annai, is situated on very hilly terrain.
The Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) registered an after-tax profit of $2.032 billion for 2016, 1.5% above the previous year but it also saw loan impairment expenses of $899 million.
The criminal investigation into the purchase of lands at ‘Pradoville 2’ by former president Bharrat Jagedo, members of his cabinet and close affiliates, is nearing completion, according to head of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) Assistant Com-missioner of Police Sydney James, who is urging the public to exercise patience.
The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the Education System has recommended an investigation be conducted into the National School Feeding Programme with a view to having it provide more value for money.
The Ministry of Natural resources has for one month remained silent in the face of a request from the Transparency Institute Guyana Incorporated (TIGI) for clarification on whether ExxonMobil has submitted an economic feasibility study for its proposed Stabroek Block development.
Despite having failed key targets in 2016 – including the number and length of blackouts – the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) has escaped what could have been a hefty financial penalty with the regulatory body stating that overall the utility had put in a creditable performance.
Her heart set on black pudding with ‘loud sour,’ Guyanese Heather Chin, journeyed 50 miles from her Texas, US home only to be told that there was not enough pudding to sell.
US$21.8 million is to be pumped into a project which will assist Guyana to sustainably manage its lands, Commissioner of the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission (GL&SC) Trevor Benn said adding that it is a great step towards making his agency 21st century ready in the field.
The Guyana Sugar Cor-poration (GuySuCo) has set a production target of 74,172 tonnes of sugar for its first crop but sources believe that it may not be achieved since there is not enough cane in the ground and the May/June rainy season is expected to impact output.
President of the Guyana Agricultural & General Workers Union (GAWU) Komal Chand said he is not impressed by the meeting between President David Granger and UK company Czarnikow, because Guyana would be producing less sugar.
President David Granger yesterday told PNCR members that his government has no intention of shutting down the sugar industry and stressed that diversification is key to keeping it alive.
Twelve years after her husband was brutally murdered, Cheryl Bess got a glimmer of hope that justice was near after she was informed that one of the alleged shooters was in police custody.
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