LONDON, (Reuters) – The World Health Organization does not believe the monkeypox outbreak outside of Africa requires mass vaccinations as measures like good hygiene and safe sexual behaviour will help control its spread, a senior official said on Monday.
Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo at a meeting with sugar workers of the Uitvlugt Estate yesterday afternoon announced a menu of relief measures, including proposed small business grants of up to $250,000.
The Government of Trinidad and Tobago on Sunday said that it is not currently pursuing challenging Guyana’s local content laws but rather, is trying to understand how both nations can collectively benefit from the resources in the sector.
Following concerns over the repeated use of one consultant for the environmental surveys for ExxonMobil’s operations here, a different company was selected for the oil major’s fifth planned offshore project but the controversy is likely to rumble on.
Environmentalist Simone Mangal-Joly has written to the Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) calling on it to release a study which purports to say that Guyana’s oil and gas industry is not causing the low fish catch being experienced by fishermen here.
Members of a Parfait Harmonie family were beaten and robbed during a home invasion on Sunday night by three gunmen.
Three remodelled multi-million-dollar police stations were commissioned yesterday at New Amsterdam, Albion and Whim in Berbice “This is an outstanding and a magnificent day for the Guyana Police Force in Berbice itself and the Corentyne Coast in respect of these new facilities,” Benn said, according to a release from the police force.
Declaring that it is “apolitical,” “professional” and operates within the confines of the law, the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) in a statement has sought to rebuff what it says are allegations published “in the media and otherwise that have no basis in law.”
The Ministry of Public Works yesterday issued a Certificate of Inspection approving the electrical works which have been done at Tucville Primary and Secondary Schools over the last few weeks.
LVIV, Ukraine/BERLIN, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday that the crisis in Ukraine was a global issue which heightened the importance of maintaining international order, territorial integrity and sovereignty.
The Forbes Burnham Foundation is incensed that it was denied exhibition space at the National Library at the last minute and feels that there was a directive behind this move.
A total of 21 new COVID-19 cases were reported by the Ministry of Health yesterday.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley says information he received suggesting that Trinidad and Tobago was being offered significant funding from the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, in fact, came from a scammer who was seeking to get money from him.
TOKYO, (Reuters) – U.S. President Joe Biden said yesterday there had been no change to the policy of strategic ambiguity on Taiwan.
A Dental Assistant attached to the Ministry of Health yesterday appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court to answer to the charge of using abusive language.
(Trinidad Guardian) Surinam Airways has announced that it has been forced to suspend its services as of today, after close to three decades of operations into Port-of-Spain, Trinidad.
A push cart vendor was yesterday charged in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court with wounding a man.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Copenhagen’s pledge of Harpoon anti-ship missiles and a launcher to Ukraine, announced by the United States yesterday, is the first sign since the Russian invasion in February that Kyiv will receive U.S.-made
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – A team of Colombian soldiers will travel to Europe to train their Ukrainian counterparts on de-mining techniques, the South American country’s defense minister said yesterday.
Thirty-six-year-old Linden resident Corwyn Arthur who attacked and beat a 16-year-old girl with a knife before brutally raping her on a lonely road on the night of December 17th, 2013 has been sentenced to 13 years, six months in jail.
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