Former President Donald Ramotar has defended his predecessor, Bharrat Jagdeo’s right to immunity in relation to the Pradoville 2 investigation saying that it was not criminal and cannot be compared to other global leaders who were impeached for various transgressions.
Chief Executive Officer of the State Assets Recovery Unit (SARU) Major (rtd) Aubrey Heath-Retemyer has assured that if anyone from the current administration steals state assets, he or she will be pursued.
A taxi driver was yesterday shot, allegedly during crossfire between a cop and two robbers in the vicinity of the La Penitence Market but the police say they are investigating the incident as there have been conflicting reports.
The Guyana Telephone Telegraph company (GTT) on Saturday morning officially opened another customer experience store at the corner of Camp and Robb streets.
In observance of International Women’s Day, the Maternal and Child Health Department of the Ministry of Public Health hosted a women’s health fair on Friday to promote women’s health for the next generation.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – At least 38 people were killed and about a dozen injured in northern Haiti late on Saturday after a bus drove into a parade of pedestrians while fleeing from an accident, the country’s civil protection authorities said today.
Horace James has been appointed the new Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), effective March 1, 2017.
An accident along Carifesta Avenue yesterday morning resulted in damage to two utility poles.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Aides to U.S. President Donald Trump yesterday attacked the credibility of the nonpartisan agency that will analyze the costs of a replacement for Obamacare, as the White House sought to quell opposition from many conservative Republicans.
BEIJING, (Reuters) – China’s military needs to promote technological innovation as the “key” to its upgrading and modernisation, President Xi Jinping told military delegates to the annual meeting of parliament.
Police are investigating a shooting in the vicinity of the Stabroek/ South (Route 41) bus park on Saturday night, which left a vendor nursing gunshot injuries.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s ruling African National Congress (ANC) needs to end corruption and party divisions, and deliver on promises to tackle poverty if it is to halt a decline in voter support, a party policy document said yesterday.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Two days before U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara was fired, President Donald Trump tried to call the high-profile New York prosecutor in what a White House official said was an effort to “thank him for his service and to wish him good luck.”
The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the shooting of Kenneth Hoyte, 46yr, a taxi-driver of Tucville, G/T which occurred about 09:00hr today at Sussex St.,
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – At least 38 people were killed and about a dozen injured in northern Haiti late on Saturday after a bus drove into a parade of pedestrians while fleeing from an accident, the country’s civil protection authorities said today.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Two days before U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara was fired, the high-profile New York prosecutor declined to take a call from President Donald Trump, a U.S.
(Trinidad Guardian) Some 200 tonnes of rice valued at approximately TT$400,000 is currently being left to rot at the National Flour Mills’ non-functional rice milling complex at Carlsen Field.
Minister of Public Health Volda Lawrence yesterday admitted to “fast-tracking” the purchase of $605 million from ANSA McAL for the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and maintained that the public procurement process was not breached although the national tender board was not aware of the decision until its approval was sought after the transaction.
The option of a settlement for subjects of the ‘Pradoville 2’ investigation is one for the police and not government, according to President David Granger, who also says that the arrest of former president Bharrat Jagdeo was unjustified.
Due to the immunity accorded to him under the constitution, former president Bharrat Jagdeo is not liable for criminal or civil proceedings stemming from the Pradoville 2 probe, says former Attorney General Anil Nandlall, who yesterday charged that his arrest and detention by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) were resultantly unlawful.
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