BERLIN, (Reuters) – German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s CDU party suffered its second electoral blow in two weeks yesterday, slumping to its lowest level since 1990 in a Berlin state vote that rejected her open-door refugee policy.
SRINAGAR, India, (Reuters) – India accused Pakistan of being behind a separatist attack on an army base near their disputed frontier yesterday that killed 17 soldiers, in one of the most deadly attacks in Kashmir in a quarter-century-old insurgency.
MARGARITA ISLAND, Venezuela, (Reuters) – Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro said yesterday that OPEC and non-OPEC countries were close to reaching a deal to stabilize oil markets and that he aimed for a deal to be announced this month.
(Trinidad Express) The Opposition, led by United National Congress (UNC) political leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar, will not support the abolition of jury trials.
LOS ANGELES, (Reuters) – Charmian Carr, beloved by fans for her role as the rebellious daughter, Liesl Von Trapp, in the Academy Award-winning film “The Sound of Music,” has died at the age of 73, her family said yesterday.
(Trinidad Express) One day after responding to criticism of his frequent travelling, Chief Justice Ivor Archie has left the country to attend the annual Commonwealth Magistrates and Judges’ Association (CMJA) conference.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s vice presidential running mate, Mike Pence, said he views former vice president Dick Cheney as a role model for the No.
Pageant veteran Soyini Fraser won the Miss Guyana Universe 2016 title after stiff competition from thirteen other beauties on Saturday night at the Marriott Hotel.
Construction work will commence on the Groenveldt Bridge, West Coast Demerara tomorrow and to facilitate these works, the West Coast Demerara Public Road in the vicinity of the Groenveldt Bridge will only be opened to one alternating lane of motorised traffic.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – An explosion rocked the bustling Chelsea district of Manhattan on Saturday night, injuring at least 29 people in what authorities described as a deliberate, criminal act, while saying investigators had found no evidence of a “terror connection.”
A driver attached to the MMC security firm was shot dead by a colleague, who also wounded another co-worker during a confrontation outside the company’s headquarters at Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara yesterday morning.
Regional educational officials in Region One are investigating an incident involving female students of the Santa Rosa Secondary School in the Moruca Sub-region, being strip-searched over accusations of stolen money in the presence of male police officers.
Retired Judge Winston Lennox McLennon Moore, who was the serving Ombudsman, passed away last Friday night.
Two persons died while four others were injured after the car they were travelling in collided with a pick-up truck along the Unity Public Road, East Coast Demerara on Friday evening.
DNA testing capacity at the Guyana Forensic Laboratory is more than a few years off, according to Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan.
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure yesterday announced potential sites for the proposed oil and gas industry onshore support base have been identified and it will be presenting its report to the Cabinet’s oil and gas subcommittee shortly.
In keeping with a CXC directive that from 2017 all School Based Assessments (SBAs) will have to be submitted online, the EGovernment Unit has started a project to link all secondary schools via the internet.
Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) President Patrick Yarde yesterday said that the union’s executive council will decide on the way forward on public service salary negotiations by the end of this week, while maintaining that its demand for a 25% increase is both feasible and sustainable.
Minister of State Joseph Harmon says there is no division within Cabinet on the Specialised Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) remaining under the ambit of the Guyana Police Force (GPF).
The government yesterday urged bidders for contracts for the provisions of goods and services to the state to use the Bid Protest Committee to address any concerns about the tendering process.
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