KAMPALA, (Reuters) – The World Bank has cancelled a $265 million infrastructure project in Uganda after a review found evidence of misconduct by a government contractor, including sexual harassment of female workers and road workers having sexual relations with underage girls.
A Berbice barber was yesterday brought before Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan and read a charge of assault.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – India passed legislation lowering the age at which someone can be tried for rape and other crimes to 16, spurred into action by an uproar over the release of a minor convicted in a 2012 fatal gang rape of a 23-year-old woman on a Delhi bus.
Residents of Hadfield Street in Georgetown spent last night in darkness after four utility in the area were uprooted.
BRASILIA, (Reuters) – A key member of Brazil’s Congressional budget committee has recommended the approval of the 2014 accounts of President Dilma Rousseff’s government, which could undermine her opponents’ case for impeaching her.
ACCRA, (Reuters) – Ghana’s President John Mahama has banned public officials from first class air travel in a renewed effort to cut wasteful spending as the West African nation implements an IMF aid deal to revive state finances, the government said yesterday.
(Reuters) – U.S. authorities have traced over $1 billion to a conspiracy involving a Venezuelan magnate who allegedly paid bribes to obtain contracts from Venezuelan state oil company PDVSA, according to U.S.
A Lethem teenager pleaded guilty to charges of drug possession and breaking and entering yesterday at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s top court on Monday ordered the detention of former President Ricardo Martinelli who is alleged to have used public money to spy on more than 150 people illegally, one of several accusations he faces.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – A Bahamian man has been arrested for hacking celebrities’ email accounts to steal movie and TV scripts, personal information and sexually explicit videos that he peddled to an undercover agent, federal prosecutors in New York said on Tuesday.
SHENZHEN, China, (Reuters) – A man was pulled out alive yesterday more than 60 hours after being buried when a waste heap collapsed on an industrial estate in the southern Chinese city of Shenzhen and there could be at least one other survivor, state media said.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s President Juan Manuel Santos yesterday signed a decree that legalizes medical marijuana, a move he says does not weaken the government’s fight against illicit crops and drug trafficking.
MELBOURNE, (Reuters) – Frustrated coach Phil Simmons has called on the West Indies Cricket Board to do more to get top players back into the test team rather than playing in lucrative Twenty20 tournaments.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC- Embattled West Indies spinner Sunil Narine has been banned from participating in the NAGICO Super50 series to be played in Trinidad and Tobago and St.Kitts
Transparency International Guyana Inc today criticised the government’s handling of allegations against the current head of GPL, Colin Welch.
On December 17, 2015, the police say that Harrichand Mahadeo, 45 years, and his wife Gaitree Lakeram, 46 years, of Truli Island, Essequibo River, were involved in an argument during which they inflicted wounds on each other, the police say.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panama’s top court on Monday ordered the detention of former President Ricardo Martinelli who is alleged to have used public money to spy on more than 150 people illegally, one of several accusations he faces.
About 2335h. last night, the police say that Clement Sukdeo, 69 years, of Windsor Forest, WCD, was driving a motor vehicle along the Leonora Public Road, WCD, when he lost control of the vehicle which turned turtle in a trench.
Under pressure following a damning audit report that recommended criminal charges and disciplinary action for breaching laws, head of government’s holding company NICIL, Winston Brassington yesterday defended his leadership of the entity saying he broke no laws and the report is not backed up with evidence.
The David Granger administration hopes that the proposed Sovereign Wealth Fund (SWF) will be managed by a hybrid of government and private individuals, according to Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman.
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