Attack on mourners in Yemen SANAA (Reuters) – Saudi-led warplanes killed at least 82 people when they struck mourners at a hall in the Yemeni capital Sanaa yesterday, the acting health minister in the Houthi-run administration said, but the coalition denied any role in the incident.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON (Reuters) – With his campaign in crisis, US presidential candidate Donald Trump vowed yesterday to stay in the race despite calls from more than two dozen prominent Republicans for him to drop out following the release of a recording of him making lewd comments about women.
TIJUANA, Mexico (Reuters) – The havoc wreaked by Hurricane Matthew has strengthened the resolve of thousands of Haitians stuck on the US-Mexico border to make it to the United States even though new rules mean they will likely be deported to their shattered homeland.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Venezuela is courting a deeper economic collapse and hyperinflation that could spark an exodus of its people into neighbouring countries, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) said on Friday.
LONDON/SINGAPORE (Reuters) – When Ines Chou was planning her “Golden Week” holiday, it was Britain’s history and heritage rather than its high street shops that lured her to the country.
PORT-AU-PRINCE/LES CAYES, Haiti (Reuters) – Cholera has killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, government officials told Reuters yesterday, as health workers sought to reach the epicenter of one outbreak.
Trade unionist Carvil Duncan today said that he had been asked by President David Granger during a February meeting to resign as Chairman of the Public Service Commission (PSC) and from other constitutional commissions.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Cholera outbreaks have killed at least 13 people in southwest Haiti in the wake of Hurricane Matthew, government officials told Reuters on Saturday, voicing concern that the disease was spreading.
NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump scrambled to prevent his campaign from falling apart early on Saturday with a hastily prepared video statement expressing regret for making lewd comments about women.
Guyana yesterday welcomed a US$297,000 ($62.3 million) grant from the United States that will see the Carter Center assisting its efforts to become a candidate of the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
Chairman of the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) Board of Directors Nigel Hinds on Thursday tendered his resignation, while saying that he could not perform in the best interest of the company as a “rubber stamp.”
Engineer Charles Ceres yesterday vehemently denied that he resigned as a member of the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) Board of Directors because of issues with Chief Executive Officer Dr.
General Secretary of the Alliance for Change (AFC) David Patterson believes that his party has successfully advocated for a reduction in the powers of Minister of State Joseph Harmon.
A man is now dead and a boat operator is in police custody after the boats they were travelling in collided in the Moruca River, North West District, late yesterday afternoon.
It is the view of some vendors occupying the canopy section of the Stabroek Market that the rifle reportedly discovered there Wednesday night was planted to discredit them in a plot to remove them from that location.
The Hydrometeorological Service has commissioned a $1.6 M Climatological Station at the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA) that is expected to assist with seasonal forecasting to improve agricultural production.
The minor explosion on a Roraima Airways plane in June, which resulted in injury to a maintenance engineer could have been avoided if a risk assessment had been conducted before repairs started, the Department of Labour has found.
Though the Alliance for Change (AFC) believes that a reform of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) is necessary, it has not yet begun to advocate for it at the level of the governing coalition and is choosing instead to push for constitutional reform and a restructuring of the legislation governing campaign financing.
Munir Mohamed, the truck driver who was involved in an accident at Providence, East Bank Demerara that left a porter dead last month, was yesterday released on $340,000 bail after denying three charges, including causing death by dangerous driving.
Motorcyclist Melroy Barnwell, who police blame for a Houston Public Road crash that claimed the life of his passenger in June, yesterday admitted to breaking a number of traffic laws but denied responsibility for causing the accident.
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