The government yesterday appealed to sugar workers not to go on strike, while maintaining that wage talks currently being demanded by their unions cannot begin now as a 10-year road map is being devised for the industry.
The Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) has granted permission for a miner to operate a river dredge near to Isseneru’s residential area, triggering a call by concerned residents for authorities to halt the operation and protect their rights.
A shopkeeper was yesterday remanded to prison on two drug charges, including conspiracy to traffic cocaine, after he was implicated by the woman who was recently jailed for trying to smuggle cocaine out of the country in her private parts.
The autopsies performed on the remains of Kavita Ackloo and Ramesh Beharry, who were found dead on the Kingston seawall on Monday, revealed that they died as a result of pesticide poisoning.
Guyana has the second highest rate of adolescent pregnancy in the Western hemisphere, Public Health Minister Dr George Norton said yesterday, while adding that 97 out of every 1,000 girls between the ages of 15 and 19 give birth annually.
Police in ‘A’ Division have launched an investigation into a report of a shooting incident which occurred in the parking lot of the Pegasus Hotel early Sunday morning.
One of the suspects in Wednesday’s Mahaicony Supermarket robbery has been identified as a suspect in a robbery/murder than took place in Linden in April.
Police yesterday afternoon found a large quantity of AK-47 rounds in a Cummingsburg yard and one man has been detained, Crime Chief Wendell Blanhum has confirmed.
Watchman Bachan Natram will be spending the next 12 months in jail after stealing over $100,000 in items from a vessel that he was charged with guarding.
Thirty-three small business owners are now better equipped to be self-reliant in their ventures thanks to a programme sponsored by the Office of the First lady.
Cabinet has given no objections to billions of dollars in contracts for various sectors, including road repairs and rehabilitation works to be done on three transport vessels.
Cabinet has greenlit contracts for the transformation of Durban Park into a “Green Zone Recreational Park,” in time for Guyana’s 50th Anniversary celebrations, Minster of Governance Raphael Trotman announced on Thursday.
MARIANA, Brazil, (Reuters) – At least two people were killed and 30 others injured after two dams collapsed at a Brazilian iron ore mine, officials said yesterday, as rescuers searched for the missing under mud and debris from colossal floods that devastated a village.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. President Barack Obama yesterday rejected the proposed Keystone XL oil pipeline from Canada in a victory for environmentalists who campaigned against the project for more than seven years.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombian President Juan Manuel Santos yesterday apologized for military actions during a 1985 assault on Bogota’s Palace of Justice by M-19 rebels, in which over 100 people died including nearly half of the country’s Supreme Court justices.
MOSCOW/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Moscow suspended passenger flights to Egypt and Washington imposed new air travel security requirements in the wake of the crash of a Russian jet in Egypt, as Western officials pointed yesterday to the conclusion it was brought down by a bomb.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. job growth surged in October and the unemployment rate hit a 7-1/2-year low of 5.0 percent in a show of economic strength that makes it much more likely the Federal Reserve will raise interest rates in December.