Three heavily armed bandits pulled off a daring daylight robbery on an A H & L Kissoon’s Furniture Store outlet yesterday afternoon on Main Street, after which police held three suspects who they say matched their descriptions.
The US position on the Guyana/Venezuela border controversy is “wholly inadequate and inexplicable” and Washington should urgently review its position and acknowledge the validity of the boundary between the two countries, former Speaker of the National Assembly Ralph Ramkarran says.
“Is tiger! Is tiger!” the man shouted, and, despite admonitions to sit, I rose up in the huge canoe again, quivering with excitement trying to get a shot of the “tiger.”
The police yesterday apprehended a man who is currently being questioned in connection with the murder of 36-year-old Dexter Griffith, who was shot dead in East Ruimveldt last Tuesday evening.
All seven sugar estates are currently operating at a loss, according to the Chairman of the Commis-sion of Inquiry (CoI) into the sugar industry, Vibert Parvatan.
One year after its construction a $5 million dollar eco-lodge at St Cuthbert’s Mission houses termites and bugs and weeds are taking over the structure.
Government has invited bids from eligible bidders to supply wind measuring equipment including anemometers, wind vanes, data loggers and masts.
The manner in which ads are placed for procurement by the Public Infrastructure Ministry is much fairer now than before, according to Permanent Secre-tary (PS) Balraj Balram.
Newly-appointed Chair-man of the Guyana National Broadcasting Authority’s (GNBA), Lennox Craig, on Thurs-day scoffed at criticisms about his political affiliation and assured he would run the regulatory body impartially.
The PPP/C has held over 50 meetings in Berbice to hear first-hand the issues affecting supporters and this outreach exercise will soon spread to other regions of the country, according to opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo.
In addition to drastically cutting the cost of production, boosting sugar yields and expanding the range of value-added sweeteners among other measures, GuySuCo can sell additional cogenerated power to the national grid as a means of returning to profitability, according to its former Chairman Vic Oditt.
On September 29, employees of the Berbice branch of Massy Industries re-painted pedestrian crossings in the East Canje communities of Berbice.
After years and numerous criticisms, the authorities are finally moving to have the records of the General Register Office (GRO) computerised.
KABUL, (Reuters) – Medical aid group Medecins Sans Frontieres (MSF) yesterday demanded an independent international inquiry into a suspected U.S.
A 77-year-old man was discovered dead in a trench yesterday morning at Brusche Dam, Buxton, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
SANTA CATARINA PINULA, Guatemala (Reuters) – Despair in the search for hundreds of people buried in a landslide that swallowed part of a Guatemalan town is so deep that some relatives feel lucky simply to have found the bodies of their loved ones.
Some former workers of the now closed Toucan Connections Incorporated in Linden have started to receive their severance payments months after the call centre closed its doors abruptly however they continue to complain that they have not been paid the full amounts while others are still waiting.
(Trinidad Guardian) An actuarial certificate signed by Paul Ngai of Prescience Insurance Consultants and Actuaries, dated April 20, says he was advised by the management of Clico that the assets pledged to the Statutory Fund total more than TT$22 billion.
NEW YORK, (Thomson Reuters Foundation) – The number of people living in extreme poverty is likely to fall for the first time below 10 percent of the world’s population in 2015, the World Bank said yesterday as it revised its benchmark for measuring the problem.
MIAMI, (Reuters) – Search-and-rescue teams yesterday located debris appearing to belong to the cargo ship El Faro, which went missing in the eye of Hurricane Joaquin with 33 mostly American crew members aboard more than three days ago, the U.S.
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