A proposal has been made to government for the youth offenders who were recently selected for presidential pardons to be enrolled in USAID’s Skills and Knowledge for Youth Employment (SKYE) Pro-ject, according to Attorney General Basil Williams.
Although a police station was just around the corner, bandits yesterday robbed the Local Tech Electronics Store on Sandy Babb Street, Kitty of millions in cash and electronics.
The Mayor and City Council yesterday held the first of several planned public consultations with various stakeholders, including members of the business community, to discuss keeping Georgetown clean.
Police in Berbice are investigating the death of a labourer who was fished out of a canal with a suspected gunshot wound to his back.
The 13-year-old who was held in the Bartica Police Station lock-ups, after being charged with wandering, was further remanded yesterday but sent to the Juvenile Holding Centre in Georgetown.
Ian Boodhoo, 26, was yesterday charged with murdering a couple at Tain, Corentyne, Berbice.
Three persons were yesterday arraigned in a city court on charges of possession of guns, ammunition and ganja that were found after police raided a house at East Ruimveldt.
A pilot was placed on $900,000 bail yesterday after he denied causing the death of a teenager by dangerous driving.
A bus driver was yesterday charged with causing the death of a suspected thief, whom he allegedly struck off a motorcycle during a chase.
Mark Ray yesterday walked out of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts a free man after he was acquitted in the theft of nearly $3M in items.
Authorities were up to yesterday continuing to work to restore classrooms and the surroundings at flood-hit schools along the East Coast of Demerara to facilitate the resumption of classes at the earliest possible time.
The new Minister of Education Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine has declared that he is against corporal punishment in all its forms.
The Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA) has started a petition for the Ministry of Education to implement a comprehensive sexuality education programme in schools, in light of the recent circulation of videos featuring school children engaged in sex acts.
BUCHAREST, (Reuters) – Romanian Prime Minister Victor Ponta rejected calls for his resignation yesterday after prosecutors named him in a criminal investigation into forgery, money-laundering, conflict of interest and tax evasion.
NEW DELHI/MUMBAI, (Reuters) – Nestle SA, battling a reputational crisis in India, pulled its Maggi instant noodles from stores across the country yesterday after regulators reported some packets contained excess lead.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Data stolen from U.S. government computers by suspected Chinese hackers included security clearance information and background checks dating back three decades, U.S.
MINNEAPOLIS, (Reuters) – Prosecutors in Minnesota brought criminal charges yesterday against the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of St.
PESHAWAR, Pakistan, (Reuters) – A Pakistani court has freed eight out of 10 men charged with organising the shooting of schoolgirl activist Malala Yousafzai, police said on Friday, a move that will raise further questions about the nation’s heavily criticised justice system.
(Trinidad Express) Four former directors and their companies, who were classed as “related parties” when Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) went bust in 2009, have already been paid TT$36,188,690.90.
(Reuters) – Tariq Aziz, who was foreign minister of Iraq under Saddam Hussein, has died in prison, Iraqi officials said yesterday.
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