(Trinidad Express) Surinamese national Edmund Muntslag, who is wanted in the United States on charges of conspiracy to traffic ten kilogrammes of cocaine into that country, suffered defeat at the High Court on Friday as he challenged his committal by Chief Magistrate Marcia Ayers-Caesar to be extradited to face trial.
Three men who were apprehended, one of whom was shot in a police operation around 8:20 pm at Stewartville, West Coast Demerara on June 3, have been remanded to prison.
(Trinidad Guardian) Forensic pathologist Dr Valery Alexandrov has described the statements made by pathologist Dr Hughvon des Vignes against him as the act of a desperate man.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela said yesterday it had cited Colombia’s ambassador for an explanation of why the neighboring country flew out a former Spanish prime minister who had traveled to Caracas to support the opposition.
GENEVA, (Reuters) – Costa Rica wants information from Nicaragua about the potential environmental impact of a planned $50 billion canal project that would rival the Panama Canal, Costa Rican President Luis Guillermo Solis Rivera said yesterday.
CHICAGO, (Reuters) – Former U.S. House of Representatives Speaker Dennis Hastert pleaded not guilty in a packed Chicago courtroom on Tuesday to federal charges of trying to hide large cash transactions and lying to the FBI about it.
At about 1030h. today, police say that the body of Pooran Lalchand, 59 years, of Mon Repos, ECD, was found in his house with several suspected stab wounds.
In the wake of her recent visit to the New Opportunity Corps (NOC), Onderneeming, Essequibo, Minister within in the Ministry of Education, with responsibility for the Department of Culture, Youth and Sport, Nicolette Henry says that she will set up a Task Force to address the issues currently existing there.
An impromptu inspection of the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) power station at Bartica on Saturday uncovered hazardous and unsanitary working conditions.
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) has not received any bailout money and this will not happen until the process is taken to the National Assembly for approval, Finance Minister Winston Jordan has said.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs has denounced a recent decree by Venezuela purporting to annex maritime zones belonging to Guyana, calling it a “flagrant violation” of international law.
Minister of Education Dr Rupert Roopnaraine has said that appointments to the posts of Directors of Youth and Sport will come only after consultations with various stakeholders have been concluded.
PPP General Secretary Clement Rohee has denied that an invite from Minister of State Joseph Harmon to engage on inclusive governance was issued on behalf of the government.
What seemed like a piece of old metal that washed ashore at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo turned out to be a part from a satellite and was removed by police yesterday.
Junior Social Protection Minister Simona Broomes yesterday defended her decision to ask the Public Service Commission (PSC) to suspend interviews to fill vacancies in her ministry, after being criticised by the PPP for unlawfully interfering with the commission’s work.