KINGSTON, Jamaica (Reuters) – Hurricane Matthew, the most powerful cyclone to form over the Atlantic since Hurricane Felix in 2007, churned across the Caribbean yesterday on a path expected to put it over Jamaica and Haiti tomorrow.
PARIS (Reuters) – Iran has kept to a nuclear deal it agreed with six world powers last year limiting its stockpiles of substances that could be used to make atomic weapons, the head of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told French daily Le Monde.
BOGOTA (Reuters) – Colombia’s FARC rebels will forfeit all their assets to fund victims reparations, the group said yesterday, one day before the Colombian people are set to vote on a peace deal between the insurgency and the government.
Vincent Alexander will continue as Chairman of the National Accreditation Council (NAC) for the next two years, the Ministry of the Presidency has announced.
TBILISI (Reuters) – Pope Francis warned yesterday of a “global war” against traditional marriage and the family, saying both were under attack from gender theory and divorce.
Two siblings were killed and their friend seriously injured when the vehicle they were travelling in earlier this afternoon collided with a truck at Friendship, East Bank Demerara.
Acting Commissioner of Police, David Ramnarine yesterday said that 15 ranks having been charged with robbery under arms, simple larceny, wounding and other offences were discharged from the Guyana Police Force and another 15 ranks were transferred or re-assigned other duties because of other misconduct.
(Trinidad Guardian) Government is getting some breathing room to pass the Foreign Account Tax Compliance Act (FATCA), as it now has until February 2017 to pass the legislation to make this country FATCA compliant.
China Harbour Engineering Corporation (CHEC) says price and capacity were the sole determinants in the purchase of US$7.5M worth of stone from Surinamese company Grassalco for the completion of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) expansion project.
Amernauth Chand, the father who allegedly stabbed his son to death on Wednesday night at their Annandale, East Coast Demerara home, was yesterday charged with murder.
Although mum on whether fugitive drug trafficker Barry Dataram was being monitored prior to his disappearance ahead of his sentencing, acting Police Commissioner David Ramnarine yesterday made it clear that law enforcement officials were not to be blamed as they did not grant him his release on bail.
A young driver is now dead after he lost control of his vehicle and slammed into a parked trailer along the Greenwich Park, East Bank Essequibo road yesterday morning.
A man has been taken into custody after a fire early yesterday morning at McDoom, East Bank Demerara, gutted three houses, leaving close to 12 persons without shelter.
Five persons, including a former murder accused, are now in custody in connection with the fatal shooting that occurred in front of the Rio Inn nightclub on Monday morning.
USAID yesterday wrapped up a drug supply management project at Diamond, on the East Bank, which enabled 4,500 persons to access anti-HIV medication and the US envoy appealed for continued investment to protect the gains from the initiative.
Acting Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine yesterday announced that since the launch of Operation Safeway two weeks ago, there has been a significant reduction in all categories of accidents.
The Department of Labour has found that negligence by both Tony’s Auto Spares and contractor Asraf Hoosaney contributed to his fatal fall from the company’s La Bonne Intention bond.
Tractor operator Conrad Williams, who was injured in the freak accident that claimed the life of a teen at Abary Creek on Monday evening, has succumbed.
Nine firearms, including seven .32 pistols, have been reported stolen by licensed firearm holders since July and police have found that such weapons were used in a number of the robberies committed recently.
Three persons were hospitalised last evening after a drive-by shooting at a car wash at Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
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