SHANGHAI/BEIJING, (Reuters) – Shanghai authorities were tightening the city-wide COVID lockdown they imposed more than a month ago, prolonging into late May an ordeal that China’s capital Beijing was desperate to avoid by turning mass testing into an almost daily routine.
(Reuters) – Moscow residents appeared anxious but resilient as the country prepared today for its annual commemoration of the Soviet victory over Nazi Germany with an economy reeling from the West’s most stringent economic sanctions in modern times.
Heavy winds on Friday night peeled off roofing sheets, smashed fences and downed utility poles in two Region Five communities leaving the owners of 18 houses counting their losses.
Former Minister of Public Infrastructure David Patterson is rebutting the recent claims made by the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) that the company contracted to maintain its generators utilised cheap spares.
Attorney-at-Law Elizabeth Deane-Hughes has written to both the President of ExxonMobil Guyana and the Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requesting that the planned public consultation for the gas-to-power project be halted until the expiry of the mandatory 60 days comments/objections period.
Agriculture in Guyana received another boost with a collaboration between Dutch company, SBM Offshore and an aquaculture farm located in Region Three.
The Police Force says that it is investigating a “fake kidnapping” after a man allegedly staged his abduction to repay a drug dealer.
This is the second entry in a series on civil society.
The local press corps along with a number of news entities from Brazil were denied the opportunity to question Guyanese President Irfaan Ali and his Brazilian counterpart Jair Bolsonaro on Friday when the latter made his first official visit to Guyana.
Life has changed drastically and will probably never be the same again for Shameeza Bhagwandat, a single-parent mother who lost her only child in February this year after he was involved in an accident.
Family members and friends of former Queen’s College student, Sanjay Bhupan were plunged into a state of shock following his sudden death on Friday.
Residents of Region Three (Essequibo Islands–West Demerara) and sections of Georgetown yesterday experienced a power cut after a minibus crashed into a utility pole at the corner of Sandy Babb Street and Vlissengen Road, Georgetown.
Police have identified the man who was stabbed to death at Rose Hall on Friday evening.
Just after midday yesterday, police ranks on roadblock duty in front of the Weldaad Police Station in West Berbice intercepted a taxi with 30.8 kgs of suspected cannabis and a 23-year-old passenger claimed possession.
The Ministry of Health yesterday reported 31 new cases of COVID-19.
The police in Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) are investigating the death of a 60-year-old man, whose partially decomposed body was found at his Bachelor’s Adventure, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home on Friday afternoon.
(UK Guardian) A Thursday afternoon at Maida Hill market square is filled with pensioners happily chatting and playing cards while enjoying the sunshine.
The Pan American Health Organization (PAHO) on Friday donated 46 desk-top computers, one laptop, and 15 tablets to the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
MANILA, (Reuters) – Crowds of hundreds of thousands massed in the Philippines yesterday where the leading presidential candidates made a last-ditch bid to sway undecided voters with patriotic, upbeat messages after a divisive election race.
Youths and women will soon benefit from training in specialised agricultural skills under a collaboration between the National Agriculture Research and Extension Institute (NAREI) and a non profit organisation out of Canada.
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