Residents of South Rupununi villages close to the Marudi goldfields have alleged that some miners have breached an agreement reached earlier this year and have asked government to intervene, the Government Information Agency (GINA) has reported.
A consolidated Public Utilities Commission (PUC) bill which replaces the Public Utilities Commission Act to cater for changes as a result of the passage of the Telecommunications bill, was passed by the National Assembly on Monday.
Region Six Regional Executive Officer (REO) Dr. Veerasammy Ramayya was granted permission by the Ministry of Communities to proceed on 14 days of vacation leave.
Closing statements were yesterday submitted by the attorney representing Roger Bess, the driver who allegedly fatally struck an elderly man and injured two other persons on Cemetery Road last year.
The Ministry of Social Cohesion on Friday rewarded the top performers of the 2016 Annual Grade Six Assessment 2016 from the Cuyuni/ Mazaruni (Region Seven) area with bicycles and books bags, to further encourage them in their academic pursuits, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said yesterday.
A depression along Carifesta Avenue, in the vicinity of the GTT facility, caused a driver to go careening into a nearby trench on Monday after swerving to avoid the recently constructed median.
A St. Ignatius villager will be spending the next three years in jail after he admitted that he was caught by police while transporting drugs for a friend.
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday once again protested outside of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) headquarters over its claim that the 2015 general elections were rigged and to call for Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally to go.
CLEVELAND, (Reuters) – Thirteen months after launching an improbable bid for the White House, Donald Trump captured the 2016 Republican presidential nomination yesterday, having vanquished 16 party rivals, warred with much of its establishment and provoked controversy at every turn.
ROME, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Indigenous people are better than governments at preventing forests from being cut and should be seen as a solution, not a barrier to protecting them, the U.N.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia wants a permanent opening of its border with Venezuela and will not allow further temporary crossings, the foreign minister said, after tens of thousands of Venezuelans streamed in during the weekend to buy items scarce in their own country.
MANILA, (Reuters) – The Philippines’ Supreme Court yesterday dismissed a plunder case against influential former President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo and ordered her immediate release after five years under hospital arrest.