As rice farmers all over the country harvest their crops, the farmers in the Mahaica and Mahaicony areas are patiently waiting to find out if they will receive assistance for the next crop after the losses they suffered due to the punishing El Nino drought.
STOCKHOLM (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – World military spending rose 1 per cent in 2015, the first annual increase in four years, a Stockholm think tank said today as it estimated 10 per cent of this could cover the costs of global goals aiming to end poverty and hunger in 15 years.
Guyana yesterday welcomed its third cruise visit as patrons of the Serenissima spent the day visiting the Kaieteur Falls and touring the city.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Former New Zealand prime minister Helen Clark said yesterday she would campaign to be the next UN secretary-general, pledging to improve transparency and touting her leadership experience in a bid to become the first woman to head the world body.
BRASILIA (Reuters) – With neither side commanding enough firm support in the battle to impeach Brazil’s President Dilma Rousseff, the outcome of a crucial vote in Congress this month may boil down to a handful of no-shows and abstentions.
NEW YORK (Reuters) – A Colombian who pleaded guilty to US narcotics charges stemming from a probe that began with him trying to help a paramilitary group get uranium for a “dirty bomb” to attack the US embassy in Bogota was sentenced to 13 years in prison.
BRAZZAVILLE (Reuters) – Gunbattles shook the capital of Congo Republic yesterday, shattering a relative calm that had followed President Denis Sassou Nguesso’s re-election in a disputed vote last month.
KINGSTON, Jamaica, CMC- Jamaica’s Prime Minister Andrew Holness says the unprecedented accomplishments of West Indies cricket teams in capturing three separate titles this year should be used as a source of motivation for the region.
ST.JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC- President of the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB), Dave Cameron, has apologised for what WICB described as ‘inappropriate’ comments by captain Darren Sammy after West Indies conjured-up a miraculous four-wicket win over England to regain the T20 World Cup.
West Indies captains Stafanie Taylor and Darren Sammy pose with their T20 trophies won in yesterday’s finals in India.
SYDNEY/PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Tax authorities in Australia and New Zealand are probing local clients of a Panama-based law firm at the centre of a massive data leak for possible tax evasion.
The authorities need to do much more about corruption as the entire country is at risk of being marginalised by the international economic community for failure to uphold its own laws, Sunday Stabroek business columnist Rawle Lucas says.
A Linden woman and her boss are hospitalised after they were shot several times by a man with whom she ended a relationship.
The body of a 65-year-old pensioner was yesterday found on the Coldingen Embankment Road, East Coast Demerara with a chop wound to the back of his head.
A construction worker is now dead after he was struck down on Saturday night on the La Jalousie Public Road, West Coast Demerara.
A 10-year-old lad was last evening killed when a reversing vehicle struck him down in front of his home.
Chairman of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) Rawle Lucas says the system of granting tax concessions will be reviewed and he believes that granting incentives to large foreign companies as opposed to local firms, would be more beneficial to the country.
Nineteen Community Development Councils (CDCs) in Mahaica-Berbice and East Berbice-Corentyne, yesterday received letters of approval for small grants under the Government of Guyana’s community development project, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said.
Guyana does not have the passenger numbers or infrastructure to develop into a regional hub for air traffic in the foreseeable future, according to an Inter-American Development Bank (IDB)-funded report done for the Union of South American States (UNASUR).
Local testing for the mosquito-borne Zika virus is expected to begin soon upon the return of two technologists who would have undergone training at the Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) in Trinidad.
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