A Berbice-based group of engineers had proposed a long-term solution to the problematic areas along the East Bank of Demerara (EBD) which are threatened by the nearby river but the group’s ideas were never considered.
A year-old drainage filter installed at the Annandale Pump Station has been wrecked and the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) is replacing it.
The Christmas season for many is a time of joy, delicious food and spending quality time with family and friends.
The WPA, the GTUC and ACDA have voiced support for Mark Benschop and Freddie Kissoon’s efforts to highlight the dangers posed by the overflowing city landfill, while condemning their arrest and detention as acts of intimidation.
Labour Minister Manzoor Nadir has rejected assertions that the government has demonstrated double standards in its treatment of the retrenched Barama Company Limited workers and the 57 RUSAL workers who were fired over a year ago.
As the suspected leaf spot disease Black Sigatoka continues to ravage banana and plantain farms across the country, the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) has said that preliminary results of samples sent to the United Kingdom (UK) to be tested point to symptoms of the scourge.
When 26-year-old Monica Carmichael of Number 30 Village, West Coast Ber-bice learnt she was pregnant with her second child she was elated, but she died following surgery to remove the baby which also died.
(Trinidad Express) Low tourist arrivals and occupancy, trending downward in the last three years, have combined with other factors to make a perfect storm that is creating havoc on Tobago’s tourism industry, squeezing the life out of the hotel business and the island’s economy.
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Pope Benedict prayed for a rebirth of peace in the Middle East and encouraged Catholics in Iraq and communist China to resist persecution in his Christmas message read amid heightened security yesterday.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – Panamanian President Ricardo Martinelli tried to bully the U.S.
ABIDJAN, (Reuters) – Three West African presidents will fly to Ivory Coast on Tuesday to tell incumbent leader Laurent Gbagbo to quit or face force, Benin said yesterday, a sign of mounting regional determination to force him out.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Former Venezuelan President Carlos Andres Perez, who survived two coup attempts but was finally forced from office as the first Latin American leader to be convicted of corruption, died yesterday in Miami.
AUCKLAND, (Reuters) – Pace bowler Tim Southee ripped through Pakistan’s batting order before opener Martin Guptill smashed a quick-fire half century to help New Zealand to a five-wicket win over Pakistan in the first Twenty20 international today.
Fire shortly before noon destroyed a Victory Valley, Linden home leaving five persons homeless on Christmas Day.
Prime Minister, Samuel Hinds today spread the joy of the season interspersed with words of wisdom to the celebrating residents of the Dharm Shala when he visited the Home of Benevolence for all races in Albouystown, the Government Information Agency reported.
President Bharrat Jagdeo spent the early part of Christmas day distributing toys to youths in the pediatric care unit of the Georgetown Public Hospital, the Government Information Agency reported.
JOS/MAIDUGURI, Nigeria, (Reuters) – Explosions in Nigeria’s central region killed 32 people on Christmas Eve and six people died in attacks on two churches in the northeast of Africa’s most populous nation, officials said today.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Queen Elizabeth praised the power of sport in bringing people together in her Christmas Day address to the nation, before London hosts the 2012 Olympic Games.
The police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at about 3 pm yesterday, at Big Creek, Port Kaituma, NWD, during which miner Reval Wong, 25 years, was attacked and robbed by two men, one of whom was armed with a handgun.
DURBAN, (Reuters) – Bowler-friendly conditions in Durban will help India in the second test against South Africa starting tomorrow, skipper Mahendra Singh Dhoni said yesterday.
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