Couple denies having live ammo found in police raid
A couple was placed on bail yesterday after denying ownership of live rounds allegedly uncovered by police during a house raid.
A couple was placed on bail yesterday after denying ownership of live rounds allegedly uncovered by police during a house raid.
A Pork-Knocker was placed on bail after he denied chopping another man with a cutlass during a confrontation at an interior shop.
The Rotary Club of Demerara installed Renata Chuck-A-Sang as its new president and a new board at its 22nd installation ceremony hosted on Tuesday evening at the Pegasus Hotel.
A truck driver was remanded to prison yesterday after being charged with stealing wood and later escaping from police custody.
The Guyana Fire Service is investigating the origins of a mysterious fire which ravaged an unoccupied Bush Lot, West Coast Berbice home some time around 11.30pm on Sunday.
WASHINGTON/HAVANA, (Reuters) – The United States and Cuba have reached an agreement to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic ties severed more than five decades ago, and the historic deal will be unveiled today, U.S.
ATHENS, (Reuters) – Greece’s last-minute overtures to international creditors for financial aid yesterday were not enough to save the country from becoming the first developed economy to default on a loan with the International Monetary Fund.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – President Barack Obama and Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff used a White House visit yesterday to turn the page on a spying scandal that had damaged bilateral relations and said they want to work to bolster economic ties.
(Reuters) – U.S. presidential candidate and real estate mogul Donald Trump filed a $500 million lawsuit yesterday against Univision over the Spanish-language TV network’s decision to end its contract to broadcast the Miss USA pageant, which is co-owned by Trump.
TEGUCIGALPA, (Reuters) – Honduran authorities have issued an arrest warrant for federal lawmaker and Congress vice-president Lena Gutierrez, along with 15 other people accused of defrauding the country’s health ministry, the head of the supreme court said yesterday.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization yesterday declared Cuba the first country in the world to eliminate the transmission of HIV and syphilis from mother to child.
MEDAN, Indonesia, (Reuters) – More than 100 people were feared dead after a military transport plane ploughed into a residential area shortly after take-off in northern Indonesia yesterday, in what may be the deadliest accident yet for an air force with a long history of crashes.
(Trinidad Express) Bring it on! Corruption accused Former embattled FIFA Vice President Jack Warner declared last night that he is not going anywhere and if the United States sends for him, he’s ready to battle them.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The Obama administration on Wednesday will announce it has reached an agreement with Cuba to reopen embassies and restore diplomatic relations severed more than five decades ago, U.S.
Up to September 2014, 30 months after a US$4m contract had been signed with the government, the Indian company Surendra was still to complete the supply of eight fixed pumps, according to the 2013 report of the Office of the Auditor General (OAG).
The Private Sector Commission (PSC) today announced that it elected a new Executive at its Annual General Meeting held yesterday at the Guyana Pegasus Hotel.
The recent petroleum find by US firm ExxonMobil could be as much as 1.5 billion barrels of oil, according to Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman who says that government would press the company to bring the well into production within five years.
Three men were yesterday charged with murdering Rubis Guyana accountant Jason Cort, who was shot dead just over a week ago at his home during a robbery.
Three persons have been taken into police custody in connection with the murder of Port Mourant businessman Rampersaud Shivcharan on Sunday night.
Government has approached the British to have the rejected Guyana Security Sector Reform Action Plan back on the cards in the wake of the country’s ongoing battle to keep the crime situation under control, President David Granger said yesterday.
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