THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – Judges at the World Court ruled yesterday that Chile and land-locked Bolivia now agreed on previous points of dispute over access to the waters of the Silala river and that they would not need to make a decision on Chile’s claims before the court.
RUSSELS, (Reuters) – European Union governments tentatively agreed yesterday on a $60 a barrel price cap on Russian seaborne oil – an idea of the Group of Seven (G7) nations – with an adjustment mechanism to keep the cap at 5% below the market price, according to diplomats and a document seen by Reuters.
HAVANA/WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Cuba´s Vice Foreign Minister Carlos Fernandez de Cossio yesterday accused long-time rival the United States of doublespeak after the Biden administration proposed to scrap a plan to install a new undersea telecommunications cable to Cuba.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Joe Biden yesterday used the first state visit of his presidency to demonstrate unity with France’s Emmanuel Macron on Ukraine, show willingness to speak to Russia’s Vladimir Putin and assuage European anger over U.S.
Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) officers on Wednesday evening arrested a North Sophia man after it intercepted a boat with 1,000 shotgun cartridges aboard.
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Charles Ramson, who was the then Region Four Counting Agent for the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) during the March 2020 elections, said his efforts to deliver a letter requesting a recount of votes tabulated for District Four to Returning Officer (RO) Clairmont Mingo had been frustrated by police officers.
AMMAN, (Reuters) – Islamic State (IS) militant leader Abu al-Hassan al-Hashemi al-Quraishi, who was killed in mid-October in Syria, blew himself up after he and his aides were surrounded by local fighters in the town of Jasem, fighters involved in the clash told Reuters.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s energy ministry tried earlier this year to block the publication of stricter rules on natural gas flaring, according to documents seen by Reuters, saying they would hurt state oil company Pemex and its plans to increase production.
MEXICO CITY, (Reuters) – Mexico’s government said yesterday a deal had been reached between employers, labor representatives and officials to raise the minimum wage by 20% in 2023.
Improvised weapons, scissors, ganja, razor blades, and cell phones were among the items found when the Joint Services conducted a search at the New Amsterdam Prison on Thursday.
HONG KONG/BEIJING, (Reuters) – China is set to announce an easing of its COVID-19 quarantine protocolsin the coming days and a reduction in mass testing, sources told Reuters, a marked shift in policy after anger over the world’s toughest curbs fuelled widespread protests.
The Ministry of Education today announced that the new Chief Education Officer will be Saddam Hussain.
HONG KONG/BEIJING, (Reuters) – China is set to announce an easing of its COVID-19 quarantine protocols in the coming days and a reduction in mass testing, sources told Reuters, a marked shift in policy after anger over the world’s toughest curbs fuelled widespread protests.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Joint Select Committee (JSC) of Parliament on National Security yesterday heard that some 19,000 containers entered T&T over an eight-month period without being checked by customs officials.
Opposition members yesterday registered strong objections to the Hire Purchase Bill citing the absence of crucial safeguards for the protection of consumers but this did not stop its passage.
In what is increasingly becoming a battle between the government and local councils over jurisdiction for community projects, President Irfaan Ali last night lashed out at the opposition APNU+AFC over its stance on works at Den Amstel on the West Demerara which saw Works Minister Deodat Indar instructing the removal of padlocks placed by the NDC on a sports ground.
A wanted bulletin was yesterday issued for Mohammed Ramzan Shaheed who is accused of robbing and killing an 85-year-old Bushlot, West Coast Berbice woman on Monday morning.
The Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the March 2nd 2020 general elections yesterday learnt that based on documents provided by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) that most of the instructions between March 5 and March 6 of 2020 came from two senior ranks identified as Assistant Superintendents (ASP) Kingston and Nurse and it also heard testimony about the evacuation of the GECOM Chair from the Ashmins building.
Guyana and India discussed cooperation on a broad range of matters including oil and gas when the two sides held the fourth session of their foreign office consultations in Georgetown on Monday.
Chairman of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), Shurwayne Holder yesterday said that his party received unsatisfactory answers to most of the issues it raised with Guyana Elections Com-mission (GECOM) officials at a meeting on Tuesday, Holder, who was speaking at the party’s weekly press conference, said the officials included the commission’s chair Justice (ret’d) Claudette Singh and Chief Election Officer Vishnu Persaud and during the meeting the party raised issues such as the Preliminary Voters List (PVL) being more suited for national and not regional elections and concerns about the new gazetted boundaries for local authorities.
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