Some 145 teachers in several key subject areas are set to graduate from the Education Ministry’s non-graduate certificate progamme offered by the National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD), the ministry said in a press release Tuesday.
(Jamaica Observer) The management and workforce of the sugar factories sold to the Chinese company COMPLANT will be largely Jamaican, with China only providing key managers and experts, the company disclosed on Tuesday.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff’s seven-month-old government sunk further into crisis yesterday as a fourth minister quit and another top aide publicly questioned whether the leader would seek reelection or step aside in 2014 for her much more popular predecessor.
(Jamaica Observer) The quietness of Frankfield, a community in the central parish of Clarendon, was shaken on Tuesday morning when men armed with machetes invaded a house and attacked its three male occupants as they slept, hacking them to death.
A handyman accused of robbing an RK’s Security Services guard of $145,000 worth of items while being armed with a cutlass was yesterday remanded to prison by Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton.
The Home Affairs Ministry on Monday received several pieces of hardware and software from Country Repre-sentative of the Organisation of American States (OAS), Dennis Moses, and the equipment will be used to gather and accept information on public security in Guyana.
(Jamaica Observer) Joel Chin of VP Records was shot and killed Tuesday night at his home in Stony Hill.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – An Indian anti-graft campaigner whose jailing sparked mass protests and fierce criticism of the government has accepted a police offer to fast in a New Delhi park for two weeks, an aide said last night, prompting euphoria from his followers.
(Barbados Nation) Government will construct a centre for the performing arts, and has called on radio stations to play no less than 60 per cent of local music, while it pledged Bds$50 million to promote, market and distribute local entertainers’ products and services from next year.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela will nationalize its gold industry and is moving its international reserves out of Western countries, President Hugo Chavez said yesterday in a combative step ahead of his re-election bid next year.
The St. Barnabas Church will be completely demolished by this weekend, according to Errol Cush of Cush Contracting Service.
Commonwealth Secretary-General Kamalesh Sharma said he was deeply saddened at news of the passing on Sunday of Sir Paul Reeves, former New Zealand Archbishop and Governor-General.
BEIRUT, (Reuters) – Four Hezbollah suspects in the killing of Rafik al-Hariri were linked to the attack largely by circumstantial evidence gleaned from phone records, according to an indictment published yesterday after a six-year investigation which polarised Lebanon.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Caribbean Cement Company Limited made a loss of J$608 million in the second quarter, even while cement sales appeared to have stabilised in the period.
ZAWIYAH, Libya, (Reuters) – Rebels to the west and east of Libya’s increasingly isolated capital fought forces loyal to Muammar Gaddafi yesterday for control of oil facilities vital to winning the six-month-old civil war.
(Trinidad Guardian) Caribbean Airlines’ chairman George Nicholas has tendered his resignation from the state-owned national carrier. Minister
A mason accused of stealing a woman’s gold chain was on Tuesday admitted to bail in the sum of $65,000 when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Despite the fact that the public service minimum wage is $32,207, sweepers/cleaners of schools across Guyana only receive $15,800 per month and they are not paid during any of the school holiday breaks.
(Trinidad Express) Farmer Terry Bahal was shot dead as he attempted to escape bandits who ambushed him as he drove into his garage on Tuesday night.
Police today issued a bulletin for Kwame Crosse saying he is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to trafficking in narcotics.
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