PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – The wait time to pass through the Panama Canal has shortened to four days, down from more than 10 days last month, the authority that runs the waterway said yesterday.
(Jamaica Observer) A recommendation by Opposition Senator Dr Christopher Tufton that a bipartisan committee be established and given a timeline of 12 months to hammer out differing views on the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ) has been accepted by the Government.
ABIDJAN, (Reuters) – Authorities in Ivory Coast have closed a large gold mine that United Nations investigators claimed was controlled by a former rebel commander who now holds a senior position in the army, officials said yesterday.
(Barbados Nation) Government is borrowing Bds$240 million from the Export-Import Bank of China to help fund the redevelopment of the 450-room Sam Lord’s Castle in St Philip.
ROSEAU, Dominica, CMC – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell today slammed what he called an “amazing level of disrespect” on the part of West Indies Cricket Board president Dave Cameron, as pressure continued to mount on the beleaguered Board to meet urgently with CARICOM leaders over the Governance Review Panel report.
Two suspects were arrested on Tuesday in relation to the robbery of former Crime Chief, Assistant Commissioner Leslie James and his family on Sunday morning.
No decision has been made as yet by the government over a request by the Chinese logging company Baishanlin for a further two years for value-added production, according to a statement from the Ministry of the Presidency.
A man died less than an hour after he was shot execution-style while sitting on the stairs of his home yesterday afternoon and his five-year-old son was injured.
Former Home Affairs Minister Ronald Gajraj is suing his successor Gail Teixeira for defamation over statements she allegedly made about him which were contained in a US diplomatic cable released by the WikiLeaks website.
In response to a call on Monday by former President Donald Ramotar for the army to get involved in the crime fight, the Guyana Police Force (GPF) yesterday maintained that results are being seen and even further progress is expected in the future.
Brothers Orwin and Cleon Hinds yesterday testified that they signed statements prepared by the police, only because they had been badly beaten by the lawmen, were in pain, and afraid.
The corpse of what was suspected to be a newborn baby, believed to have died after delivery was yesterday afternoon discovered buried in a small grave under a La Bonne Intention (LBI), East Coast Dem-erara (ECD) premises and police have arrested two persons.
Finance Minister Winston Jordan yesterday warned that Guyana’s economy is being battered by global economic conditions and crucial remittances have also taken a hit.
April, 1978 saw deteriorating power and water services in addition to the shortage of food and other items leaving a US embassy cable to say that the average Guyanese seems to have become demoralised over the “sharp decline in his standard of living”.
Continuing its efforts to justify significant salary increases for its ministers, the APNU+AFC government yesterday said that both Presidents Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar received monthly tax-free salaries of $1.7 million and now earn pensions of $4.5 million each per month in addition to perks.