Young parents will now have additional opportunity to educate and empower themselves, with the advent of the Ministry of Public Health’s Adolescent Clinic Day and Community Parenting Support Group.
The Alliance For Change (AFC) on Thursday said the move to replace some members of state boards and commissions because of advanced age was not discriminatory and warned that the issue was being deliberately twisted to create a racial divide.
Opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday called on President Granger to hold press conferences and accused the Head of State of not allowing himself to be challenged as should be done in a democracy.
Residents of Tenth Street, Cummings Lodge, are fed up with the condition of the deplorable and impassable road and are calling on the relevant authorities to quickly fix it.
If former president Donald Ramotar had signed a lease authorising the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Inc.
Should the PPP/C be returned to government, it will reverse a number of decisions made by the current administration, including the Value Added Tax (VAT) being placed on some food items and medical supplies and the hike in rental fees for farmers by the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary-Agriculture Development Authority (MMA-ADA), opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo said on Thursday.
A man was shot twice by bandits on Friday afternoon during an attempted robbery, while he and another man were making a deposit at the Citizens Bank night deposit at Thirst Park, Mandela Avenue.
LYON, France (Reuters) – French presidential candidate Emmanuel Macron yesterday called on US scientists, academics and entrepreneurs at odds with Donald Trump’s administration to move to France.
A man who burglarised a house at Rose Hall, Corentyne on Thursday evening and escaped with approximately $500,000 in valuables, including jewellery, was later nabbed by police with the stolen booty.
Two committees are to be set up to work on Guyana’s proposal to establish a law school next year in keeping with a requirement of the Council of Legal Education (CLE), Attorney General Basil Williams SC said last Friday.
MANILA (Reuters) – Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte said yesterday that peace negotiations with Maoist-led rebels would be scrapped, five months after both sides resumed talks to end nearly five decades of conflict that has killed more than 40,000 people.
LONDON (Reuters) – Several thousand people demonstrated outside the US embassy in London yesterday against President Donald Trump and his temporary ban on refugees and nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States.
Attorney General and Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams SC said on Friday that applications for the post of Solicitor-General (SG) were received from persons living in Guyana and abroad, and that some attention will now have to be paid to offering higher salaries.
The government says it is considering a renewable one-year concessionary agreement on fuel and equipment for miners and it defended the manner in which it has addressed the industry on recent tax reforms.
WASHINGTON/DAMASCUS, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump today denounced a judge who lifted a travel ban for citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries, vowing that his government would reinstate it as affected travelers scrambled for tickets to try to quickly enter the United States.
(Trinidad Guardian) No way – no how. That’s how some Muslims groups’ reacted to Government’s proposed tough anti-terrorism legislation revealed by Attorney General Faris Al-Rawi on Thursday.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Citizens of seven mainly Muslim countries banned from the United States by President Donald Trump can resume boarding U.S.-bound
Hundreds yesterday lined Regent Street, opposite City Hall, to demonstrate against the implementation of the metered parking system but what was intended to be a silent, apolitical protest by the Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM), saw tempers flare after a hostile counter-protest was organised by those backing the project.
Against the backdrop of an escalating row over paid parking, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) yesterday announced that property rates will go up by 10% – the first hike since 1998 – and it is projecting an $833M deficit for 2017.
Amidst a flood of criticism over his recent attacks on Deputy Solicitor-General Prithima Kissoon, Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs Basil Williams SC yesterday announced that she has been asked to go on 72 days of administrative leave to facilitate a probe into her handling of cases, particularly those involving members of the PPP.
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