The family of Nafasi Edghill has many questions over what has been described as an accidental killing for which a friend, Seon Stoll was taken into custody and charged with manslaughter on Tuesday.
A Guyanese woman who was held at JFK Airport in New York in November 2014 with around 30 lbs of cocaine is currently serving a sentence of 27 months.
New GPC (NGPC) is facing increasing competition from other drug suppliers since the new APNU+AFC government shook up procurement arrangements.
The family members of an 82-year-old woman who was struck down by a canter are trying to come to grips with the loss of their loved one.
Qualfon on Tuesday announced that it will move its contact centre operations, currently located at Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara (ECD), to the company’s newly built facility at Providence, East Bank Demerara.
The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) was yesterday scrambling to have works completed on a vacant lot for dozens of vendors removed from Stabroek Square even as two government ministers on Wednesday called for a “humane approach” to the situation.
The firm which audited the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) last year said that some of its buildings are in a dire state and its head office should be closed temporarily for repairs.
Hundreds of persons turned up yesterday at Highbury, East Bank Berbice to celebrate the 178TH Anniversary of the arrival of indentured labourers from India.
Davenand Dhandhari, 18, charged in connection with a murder, last week sat one of his first CAPE Examinations at the New Amsterdam Prison.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Brazil’s Supreme Court removed the speaker of the lower house of Congress yesterday on charges of obstructing a corruption investigation, days before an impeachment process that he engineered was expected to oust President Dilma Rousseff.
(Jamaica Observer) Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) is to retrofit an area of its Piarco International Airport by July, to improve accommodation for Jamaicans refused entry into the two-island republic.
CONKLIN/LAC LA BICHE, Alberta, (Reuters) – A catastrophic wildfire that has forced all 88,000 residents to flee Fort McMurray in Alberta, Canada exploded tenfold in size yesterday, cutting off evacuees in camps north of the city and putting communities to the south in extreme danger.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Cayman Islands is to introduce genetically engineered mosquitoes to reduce the insect population in the fight against vector-borne diseases such as dengue fever, chikungunya and Zika virus.
GEORGETOWN, Guyana, CMC-Organisers of the Caribbean Premier League (CPL) are disputing statements from top government ministers in Guyana that Trinidad and Tobago have been chosen to host the finals of the CPL.
After almost two hours of heated debate, government last evening passed the Anti-Money Laundering and Countering the Financing of Terrorism (AML/CFT) (Amendment) Bill despite pleas from the opposition that it should not be rushed and ought to be sent to a Select Committee.
Further legal action has been promised by the National Air Transport Association (NATA) to stop the renaming of the Ogle Airport in an increasingly bitter struggle that has also drawn in President David Granger.
With the introduction of its full-time cardiologist, cardiac surgeon, and special packages for cardiac evaluation, the Dr.
By Gaulbert Sutherland in Washington With a growing market for renewables, the Caribbean and Central America are being urged to diversify their fuel sources and the US yesterday unveiled US$10m in grant financing but Guyana was not listed as among the countries that could potentially benefit.
Investigations are currently being conducted into the circumstances surrounding a vehicular accident which occurred on Tuesday evening at Parfait Harmonie and claimed the life of a 36-year-old resident of the area.
A Great Diamond resident was yesterday charged and remanded to prison for allegedly committing a murder nine years ago.
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