MAPUTO, (Reuters) – A Mozambican court today found a former president’s son and 10 other people guilty on charges related to a $2 billion “hidden debt” scandal that crashed the southern African nation’s economy, sentencing them each to more than 10 years in prison.
(Trinidad Guardian) The Dominica Labour Party, led by Roosevelt Skerrit, returned to power following Tuesday, December 6 elections on the Caribbean island.
GECOM will tomorrow discuss opposition con-cerns that lists for the March 13, 2023 local government polls were not extracted according to the law and the governing PPP/C yesterday said it was not opposed to another round of claims and objections making it likely that the long-delayed elections will be further put back.
Public Works Minister Juan Edghill on Monday dodged questions from APNU+AFC MP David Patterson on the method the ministry will use to spend the large remainder of its 2022 budgetary allocation.
The Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examination (CAPE) programme has been extended to the Rosignol Secondary School in Region Five.
An Air Services Limited (ASL) Bell 206 helicopter with registration HR-GTR has been grounded by the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) following two breaches – 1) that a mishap occurred and it was not logged and 2), that an inspection found the wrong rotor blades were being used.
Mohammed Ramzan Shaheed, who was arrested in connection with the murder of an 85-year-old Bushlot, West Coast Ber-bice woman, on Monday evening confessed to dealing the first set of blows with a piece of wood, a police source said yesterday.
A 54-year-old labourer of Parika, East Bank Esse-quibo died after he fell while picking cashews from the slippery tree in his yard on Saturday morning.
Twenty-five-year-old Brian Hermanstyne and Elden Hermanstyne, 24, both of Red Crescent Road, Mackenzie, who allegedly pushed a boat captain, Elick Alexander overboard, were last week charged with stealing the boat and remanded to prison.
Three GECOM employees who have been charged with electoral offences yesterday declined to testify before the Commission of Inquiry into the March 2nd 2020 general elections on the grounds of their right to a fair hearing and against self-incrimination.
ATLANTA, (Reuters) – Democrat Raphael Warnock won re-election to the U.S.
BUENOS AIRES, (Reuters) – An Argentine court sentenced Vice Pre-sident Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner to six years in jail and disqualified her from holding public office in a high-profile corruption case yesterday, though she has immunity due to her public office.
Lawmen in Region Six yesterday arrested the Liverpool man who is accused of assaulting his ex-wife twice after she separated from him in September following years of alleged abuse.
(Reuters) – A third Russian airfield was set ablaze by a drone strike, a day after Ukraine demonstrated an apparent new ability to penetrate hundreds of kilometres into Russia with attacks on two air bases.
Cuba yesterday accepted an offer from the Carib-bean Community (CARICOM) to join the Community’s Ministerial Task Force on Agriculture.
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) yesterday said that it has noted several instances whereby motor vessels are being imported, registered and operating in Guyana without the payment of the applicable taxes.
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – Donald Trump’s real estate company was convicted yesterday of carrying out a 15-year-long criminal scheme to defraud tax authorities, adding to the legal woes facing the former U.S.
HOUSTON/CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuelan energy officials and Chevron CVX.N executives plan to address workers in their joint ventures this week as they prepare for the first major foreign participation in Venezuela’s oil industry in years, four sources close to the matter said.
Two money changers were robbed of an undisclosed sum of local and foreign currency on Monday afternoon by two masked males and one of the victims had to be taken to the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing gunshot wounds to his right lower forearm and the right side of his abdomen.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. senators scaled back a proposal that placed new curbs on the use of Chinese-made chips by the U.S.
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