A mother of two is currently living in fear of her estranged husband, who despite a protection order, and constant reports to the police continues to stalk her and has made several threats against her life.
Although boxer Clive ‘The Punisher’ Atwell is eager to return to the ring after his recent brain injury, neurosurgeon Dr Amarnauth Dukhi says such injuries make it almost impossible for boxers to continue professional careers.
Former Stabroek News reporter Keisha McCammon has been shortlisted for the Guyana Prize for Literature for her book Dancehall Lyrics: Top of the Charts in the ‘Best First Book of Fiction’ category.
Numerous financial improprieties continue to dog the Amerindian Purposes Fund (APF), according to the Auditor-General’s report for 2014 which also questioned the legality of the fund.
In his recent interview on Venezuela, former president Mr Bharrat Jagdeo spoke about his administration’s approach to resolving the border controversy between Guyana and Venezuela.
The headmaster of Sand Creek Primary School, who allegedly physically assaulted three of his students, remains interdicted from duty with no indication as to when a team from the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) will visit to investigate the matter.
Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson says the recent removal of street lamps from some sections of Bath Settlement, West Coast Berbice, was part of a move to regularise connections to the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) network in the area.
SINGAPORE (Reuters) – China and Taiwan must not let proponents of Taiwan’s independence split them, China’s President Xi Jinping told Taiwan’s president yesterday at the first meeting between leaders of the two sides since China’s civil war ended in 1949.
SIMI VALLEY, Calif (Reuters) – The United States will conduct freedom of navigation operations in the South China Sea again, US Defense Secretary Ash Carter said in a speech yesterday, although he gave no timeline for any such actions.
BERLIN (Reuters) – Just two days after resolving a coalition row over how to handle a record influx of refugees, Germany’s ruling parties are embroiled in another spat over whether to limit the asylum rights of refugees from Syria.
MARIANA, Brazil (Reuters) – Rescue teams yesterday struggled to reach villages devastated by a massive mudflow after two dams burst at a major Brazilian mine, wreaking havoc more than 80 km (50 miles) downstream and prompting officials to warn of a higher death toll.
The Caribbean Community (Caricom) is shocked and deeply saddened by the sudden death of Sheldon McDonald, Senior Lecturer and Head of the Law Department, University of Guyana (UG).
CARACAS (Reuters) – A magnitude 5.3 earthquake struck mountainous western Venezuela in the early hours of yesterday, knocking out power in some areas, damaging some buildings and triggering rockfalls that killed one man, authorities said.
(Reuters) – Two new books by Italian journalists depict a Vatican plagued by mismanagement, greed, cronyism and corruption and where Pope Francis still faces stiff resistance from the old guard to his reform agenda.
LONDON (Reuters) – British Prime Minister David Cameron will give his strongest warning this week that he might back Britain leaving the EU unless other European leaders agree to his demands for reform of the bloc, media reported yesterday.
The Alliance For Change today lashed out at the opposition PPP for hypocrisy over the recent increase in salaries for ministers and says it has facts on “fabulous” sums stashed away in secret bank accounts that would shame the former governing party.
The United States yesterday committed over $73 million more for the fight against drugs here even as it prepares to open a Drug Enforcement Administra-tion (DEA) office here.
Taxi driver Joseph Williams, who pleaded guilty last week to killing a man and wounding another during an ambush on Water Street, was yesterday handed a 15-year jail sentence by Justice Jo-Ann Barlow.
Two women were yesterday charged over the 12.384 kilogrammes of cocaine that one of them allegedly tried to sneak aboard an outgoing flight at the Cheddi Jagan Airport in packets of powdered milk.