BRUSSELS, (Reuters) – As a corruption scandal rocks the European Parliament, lawmakers and campaign groups say a lack of asset declarations, little reporting on contacts with third countries and barely any sanctions created an environment where rule-breaking could go unpunished or undetected.
The bodies of two children who drowned last night in the Pomeroon River were recovered this morning.
(Trinidad Express) Fine Arts dealer Mark Pereira has been murdered. He was shot and killed in Blanchisseuse on Monday night, during what police say was a robbery attempt.
(Trinidad Express) A mother and her infant daughter have been killed in a shooting.
President Irfaan Ali yesterday said that the retrofitted Mabaruma Smart Hospital in Region One will transform Guyana’s health sector while providing the “best possible working conditions”.
Micah Williams who is serving two life sentences for rape yesterday had his appeal dismissed when the Guyana Court of Appeal found that the sentences which are currently running concurrently were appropriate.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) will embark on a field exercise to confirm the demarcation of constituency boundaries wherever necessary as it prepares for Local Government Elections.
A Corentyne man is nursing severe chop injuries while his son suffered a severed hand after they were brutally attacked by two men armed with cutlasses at Letter Kenny Village, Corentyne on Sunday evening.
The Guyana Police Force yesterday said that it is investigating the murder of Ricky Oswald Ambrose, a 40-year-old mining surveyor and ranger of South Ruimveldt, Georgetown, which occurred on Sunday, on ‘Guana’ Sand Trail, Cuyuni River.
Dethiel Chimezie, the perpetrator of last Thursday’s attack outside of State House remained hospitalised in a critical condition up to press time yesterday.
The Ministry of Housing and Water is investing $3.8 million to rebuild three dilapidated bridges between Section ‘B’ and ‘C’ Turkeyen (Sophia), Georgetown that lead to the Bright Future’s Day Care, Pre-school and Nursery School.
University of Guyana graduate and accounting and finance professional, Mohamed Ibrahim, is the new Chief Executive Officer of the Small Business Bureau [SBB].
Autopsies performed on Asasha Ramzan and Peter Charles, the couple who were discovered dead in a parked vehicle at Belle West, West Bank Demerara two Tuesdays ago confirmed that they both died as a result of gunshot injuries.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. House of Representatives panel probing the Jan.
Months after a section of newly done Thomas Lands road had to be repaired after it began sinking, another segment is experiencing the same problem.
THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Mark Rutte yesterday apologised on behalf of the Dutch State for its historical role in slavery, and for consequences that he acknowledged continue into the present day.
Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Lieutenant Colonel Eon Murray recently completed a five-day Senior Leadership Programme conducted by the United Kingdom.
MONTREAL, (Reuters) – A United Nations summit approved yesterday a landmark global deal to protect nature and direct billions of dollars toward conservation but objections from key African nations, home to large tracts of tropical rainforest, held up its final passage.
A man who was sentenced to 25 years in prison for sodomy will now serve 20 years after the Court of Appeal yesterday reduced his sentence by five years.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Teenaged boys in the United States are increasingly becoming ensnared in online financial “sextortion schemes,” impacting at least 3,000 victims and leading to more than a dozen suicides so far, U.S.
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