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.
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.
UVALDE, Texas, (Reuters) – Investigators in Texas yesterday sought to determine how critical mistakes were made in the response to the deadly Uvalde school shooting, including why nearly 20 officers remained outside a classroom as children placed panicked 911 calls for help.
All employees of the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) who are members of the Guyana Postal and Telecommunication Workers Union (GPTWU) will see a hike of 6 per cent in their wages and salaries effective from January 2023 unto 2025, along with further training for technicians in the company.
DUBAI, (Reuters) – Iranian police used tear gas and fired shots in the air to disperse another night of protests over a deadly building collapse in the southwestern city of Abadan that officials are blaming on corruption and lax safety, Fars news agency and reports on social media said.
CANU Officers today conducted an operation at the Demerara Shipping Limited, Lombard Street, Georgetown, that resulted in the discovery of a bag containing several parcels of suspected cocaine inside a container.
President Irfaan Ali and Prime Minister of Barbados, Mia Amor Mottley, officially commissioned the Brown’s Pond Catchment in St Philip, Barbados today.
A meeting was summoned this morning by the Commissioner of Police (acting) Clifton Hicken, in the Commissioner’s Conference Room at Force Headquarters, Eve Leary to deal with the breach of security and subsequent discharge of gunshots at the ‘Baderation’ dancehall concert held at the National Park last night.