Kurt Wynter elected Mayor of New Amsterdam
Newspaper agent Kurt Anthony Wynter was yesterday elected Mayor of New Amsterdam, when the new 14-member council held its first meeting.
Newspaper agent Kurt Anthony Wynter was yesterday elected Mayor of New Amsterdam, when the new 14-member council held its first meeting.
Businessman Ganesh Gangadin was yesterday elected Mayor of Corriverton when the new 16-member council held its first meeting at the Town Hall after the recent local government elections.
A Police Corporal attached to the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) of the Guyana Police Force is now under close arrest after he was reportedly found with an illegal firearm.
Major General (ret’d) Joe Singh, who has completed the inquiry into the death of Trenton Sebastian, the 19-year-old miner who died last month in a pit cave-in, says there is a great need for educating miners on the dangers they face in mining.
A Bachelor’s Adventure man was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail after he was charged with harming the mother of his child.
-no explanation of Tiwari’s role Minister of State Joseph Harmon’s recent visit to China was in relation to an outstanding sum to the Guyana Government for the purchase by a Chinese company of 20% of the shares of the phone company, GTT.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama urged world leaders yesterday to do more to safeguard vulnerable nuclear facilities to prevent “madmen” from groups like Islamic State from getting their hands on an atomic weapon or a radioactive “dirty bomb.”
Late former Chief State Planner Clyde Roopchand gave yeoman service to Guyana both locally and internationally with unquestionable dedication, according to the People’s Progressive Party (PPP).
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela will reduce power generation if the key Guri dam, which supplies around half of the blackout-hit country’s electricity, falls below a minimum level that is fast approaching, an official said yesterday.
SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) – El Salvador is proposing to order telephone companies to block cell phone signals inside prisons where a state of emergency has been declared, in order to prevent gang leaders from ordering murders or extortions while incarcerated.
BERLIN, (Reuters) – Germany’s longest-serving foreign minister Hans-Dietrich Genscher, a one-time refugee from the communist East who helped unite his divided homeland, has died at the age of 89.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South African President Jacob Zuma yesterday denied acting dishonestly in a scandal over improper state spending at his private home, after a scathing court ruling prompted calls for him to resign.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. employment increased strongly in March, underscoring the economy’s resilience, but an influx of Americans into the labour market could temper nascent wage growth and keep the Federal Reserve cautious about further interest rate increases.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama on Friday said he was troubled by trends in Turkey against a free press and said he had urged President Tayyip Erdogan not to pursue a strategy of repression and shutting down democratic debate in his country.
The new councillors of the Mayor and City Council posed for a photo following their inaugural meeting today at City Hall.
Minister of State Joseph Harmon’s recent visit to China was in relation to an outstanding sum to the Guyana Government for the purchase by a Chinese company of 20% of the shares of the phone company, GT&T.
As expected, Patricia Chase-Green was this afternoon elected the Mayor of Georgetown.
(Trinidad Guardian) Labour Minister Jennifer Baptiste-Primus said yesterday she suspected that over 5,000 people have lost their jobs in the last seven months as T&T continues to go through economic challenges.
President David Granger says he personally rescinded the controversial appointment of Brian Tiwari as business advisor to the government as he did not believe that he was needed.
Former president Donald Ramotar yesterday said that neither he nor the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) was ever close to convicted cash smuggling pilot Khamraj Lall and that all meetings and dealings with him were strictly on a business level.
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