CHICAGO (Reuters) – A group of US scientists and activists yesterday called for a global ban on the use of new tools to edit the genes of human embryos, in a report issued a day before a major international meeting in Washington to discuss the ethical and policy issues surrounding the technology.
The West Demerara Road Safety Association closed off Road Safety Month yesterday with a walk on the West Coast to raise awareness of road deaths.
An altercation between two men at the Meadow Bank Wharf ended with one of them being shot to his right foot yesterday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) – Jamaica has taken another step in protecting the country’s brand with the international copyrighting of Jamaican Jerk.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) – Burundi is on the brink of a war that could have “potentially disastrous effects in an already fragile region” but there is no immediate need to deploy United Nations peacekeepers, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon told the Security Council yesterday.
OUAGADOUGOU (Reuters) – Roch Marc Kabore was proclaimed the winner of the presidential election in Burkina Faso and will become the country’s first new leader in decades, the Independent National Electoral Commission said today.
TORONTO (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – Tropical deforestation, a significant driver of climate change, could be cut in half by 2020 if countries follow Brazil’s example in protecting the rainforest with better law enforcement and more transparency, a study released yesterday said.
Allan Sim, the man alleged to have murdered Georgetown Public Hospital ambulance dispatcher, Melissa Skeete, appeared before a city court yesterday where he was formally charged with the crime.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Authorities arrested three people yesterday suspected in the murder of an opposition leader that shook Venezuela and drew international condemnation in the run-up to this weekend’s election for a new legislature.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – The US Senate yesterday confirmed President Barack Obama’s selection of Gayle Smith to be administrator of the country’s main humanitarian aid organization, the US Agency for International Development, seven months after her nomination.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, CMC – The West Indies Cricket Board have given Sunil Narine its full backing after the beleaguered off-spinner was on Sunday banned from bowling in international cricket because of an illegal action.
About 0720h. today, the police say that Zhifa Lu, 53 years, was involved in an altercation with a man at the Meadow Bank Wharf during which he was shot and injured to his right foot.
Allan Sim, the man alleged to have murdered Georgetown Public Hospital ambulance dispatcher, Melissa Skeete, appeared before a city court today where he was formally charged with the crime.
During investigations into two reports of burglary committed on homes at Bush Lot, Essequibo Coast, the police say they arrested a suspect at Reliance, Essequibo Coast, yesterday.
The Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) inked by government with Fedders Lloyd to complete the specialty hospital should be cancelled and the bidding process restarted, former Auditor General Anand Goolsarran has said even as he dismissed as “without merit,” the administration’s statement that it approached the Indian firm in the interest of time.
The Sports and Art Development Fund of the former Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport was not properly managed and millions of dollars were not adequately accounted for, according to the forensic audit report on the entity.
The Public Accounts Com-mittee (PAC) of Parliament is in the process of nominating persons to be members of the long-awaited Public Procurement Com-mission (PPC) and is inviting interested stakeholders to submit names of nominees for consideration.
The ceremony for the Guyana Prize for Literature and Caribbean Awards was last evening held at the Pegasus Hotel.
Former President Bharrat Jagdeo says that Clement Rohee is the leader of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) but he once again on Saturday overruled him insisting that the party’s parliamentarians will donate the increases in their salaries to charity instead of the party’s account.
Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the sugar industry, Vibert Parvatan says that the retreat on Saturday aimed at familiarising members of cabinet with the report ended with Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo declaring that more dialogue may be necessary.
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