Patterson open to AFC leadership run
Alliance for Change (AFC) General Secretary David Patterson has signaled his readiness to contest to be leader of the party if nominated.
Alliance for Change (AFC) General Secretary David Patterson has signaled his readiness to contest to be leader of the party if nominated.
The regional private sector group which sparked a furore here when it appeared to suggest that Guyana’s local content law violated the Treaty of Chaguaramas visited the country earlier this month in what has been seen as a fence-mending trip and it is seeking to mobilise members.
Five years after the final submissions were made in a court action against the Government of Guyana by the Indigenous peoples of the Upper Mazaruni, who are seeking legal recognition of their rights to traditional and ancestral lands, community leaders are still awaiting a ruling.
President Irfaan Ali has said he and Barbados Prime Minister Mia Mottley are convinced that once they can show the results of their food security partnership, it can be replicated all across the region to create a win-win scenario.
This is the fifth entry in a series on civil society.
A 67-year-old man died last evening after he was struck down by a light truck on Mandela Avenue, in Georgetown.
A young Rosignol woman is now hospitalised in a critical condition after she was stabbed multiple times yesterday morning in an attack carried out by her former partner.
Family members of Omega Ault, the teacher whose decomposed body was discovered in her Crane, West Coast Demerara (WCD) home on Friday, are struggling to come to grips with her gruesome death and they said they were not aware of her having any problems with her husband of more than 15 years.
The Ministry of Health (MoH) on Saturday confirmed a new COVID-19 fatality, taking the country’s official death toll from the virus to 1,233.
A police investigation has been launched to identify and arrest persons who discharged shots during the ‘Baderation’ concert, which was held at the National Park on Friday night.
Communities in Region Seven Cuyuni-Mazaruni are now being monitored by the Civil Defence Commission (CDC) as extensive rainfall has resulted in flooding there.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Russian forces stepped up their assault on the Ukrainian city of Sievierodonetsk yesterday after claiming to have captured the nearby rail hub of Lyman, as Kyiv intensified its calls for longer-range weaponry from the West to help it fight back in the Donbas region.
Ranks from the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) yesterday discovered $17 million worth of cocaine in a container at the Demerara Shipping Limited at Lombard Street, Georgetown.
Students of the Anna Regina Secondary School (ARSS), in Region Two, will have the opportunity to attain full scholarships for studies at the University of Guyana (UG) through the recently launched Claudette Caesar Foundation.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – At least 35 people died amid heavy rainfall in northeastern Brazil on Friday and yesterday, as downpours lashed two major cities on the Atlantic coast, in what is the South American nation’s fourth major flooding event in five months.
VATICAN CITY, (Reuters) – Cardinal Angelo Sodano, a controversial Vatican power broker for more than a quarter of a century who was accused of covering up one of the Catholic Church’s most notorious sex abusers, has died at the age of 94.
Lucretia Bradford, Essequibo’s oldest woman, turned 105 last Wednesday. Having achieved the milestone, Bradford credited her faith as well as her healthy diet for her long and healthy life.
(Trinidad Express) – A police officer was granted $200,000 bail by Justice of the Peace Stephen Young after he was charged with two counts of misbehaviour in public office.
PARIS, (Reuters) – “Triangle of Sadness”, a film by Swedish director Ruben Ostlund, won the Palme d’Or for Best Picture at the Cannes Film Festival yesterday, the festival announced.
(Barbados Nation) – Syberton Marcelle Miller, who was described by her two daughters as “heartless”, a “sociopath” and “evil personified”, was ordered to serve eight years in prison for killing her husband four years ago.
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