Commissioning a Buxton gas station upgraded by overseas-based Guyanese, President David Granger yesterday urged citizens to move away from being satisfied with earning fixed wages and salaries and to aim for entrepreneurship.
The Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has ruled in favour of Raymond Joseph over a tract of land at Black Bush Polder, Corentyne and has ordered the Registrar of Lands to issue a new certificate of title to him within six weeks.
Minister of Indigenous Peoples’ Affairs Sydney Allicock says planned interventions under the proposed 2017 national budget demonstrate the importance of the indigenous communities and peoples to the process of national development.
The police are still looking for the four bandits who stormed the International Fisheries Limited on Saturday afternoon at the Eccles Industrial Site and robbed and beat six employees before carting off an undisclosed amount of cash.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Islamic State captured the ancient city of Palmyra yesterday despite dozens of Russian airstrikes to push back the militants a day after they briefly seized the city in eastern Syria, a war monitor and the militants said.
ISTANBUL, (Reuters) – An offshoot of the militant Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) claimed responsibility on Sunday for twin bombings that killed 38 people and wounded 155 outside an Istanbul soccer stadium, an attack for which the Turkish government vowed vengeance.
CAIRO, (Reuters) – A bombing at Cairo’s largest Coptic cathedral killed at least 25 people and wounded 49, many of them women and children attending Sunday mass, in the deadliest attack on Egypt’s Christian minority in years.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President-elect Donald Trump said the United States did not necessarily have to stick to its long-standing position that Taiwan is part of “one China,” questioning nearly four decades of policy in a move likely to antagonize Beijing.
(Trinidad Guardian) From beheadings and having their throats slit, to brutal sexual attacks and disappearing without a trace, women in this country are becoming more and more afraid of being attacked for being loud or dressing provocatively or worse, because they are just there, doing nothing but minding their own business.
A significant quantity of Erythropoietin injections made in India and purchased for use by kidney disease patients, was seized by the Government Analyst, Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD), as the Indian manufacturers have reportedly been banned in the United States, but the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has since said that the entity acted rashly.