New UNICEF Representative: United Nations
Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative for Guyana and Suriname, Marianne Flach on Monday presented her Letters of Credence to Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett.
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Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Representative for Guyana and Suriname, Marianne Flach on Monday presented her Letters of Credence to Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett.
The World Wildlife Fund (WWF) Guianas and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have signed a $4M co-financing grant agreement aimed at developing the EPA’s Environmental Protection Compliance and Enforcement Regulations in support of the Environmental Protection Act No 11 of 1996.
Two bus operators were charged yesterday with threatening and assaulting each other.
At about 1530h. today, the police say that a boat ferrying passengers from Port Kaituma to Mabaruma struck a log in the Barima River, NWD, causing passenger Shevonne Anthony, 19 years, to fall overboard.
Police say that at about 0230h today, the body of Victor Ramsabad, 32 years, of Diamond, EBD, was found with suspected marks of violence in a compound at Friendship, EBD.
A 28-year-old Albouystown resident was stabbed to death this morning. Tolasicy Marshall called ‘Talo’ of Hogg Street sustained two stab wounds just after 11 o clock.
Was Sithe Global’s insistence on raising the loans guarantee ceiling a means of securing a safeguard for the loans that were to be made available to the Amaila Falls hydropower project by the IDB and the Chinese Development Bank (CDB)?
The police today said that cognisant of an article that appeared in the Stabroek News yesterday under the caption `Miner stabbed to death at Aranka’, and which dealt with the death of Keith Wallerson, the force wished to explain that based on investigations conducted so far, the circumstances surrounding Wallerson’s death appear to be different.
Businessman Asad Ishoof passed away on July 31st at the age of 68.
Veteran PPP insider Clement Rohee was yesterday unanimously elected as General Secretary of the party after President Donald Ramotar declined to seek another term and former President Bharrat Jagdeo has made it into the pivotal Executive Committee (ExCo).
The Private Sector Commis-sion (PSC) is calling on the main opposition, APNU to take up President Donald Ramotar’s offer to recommence talks on the Amaila Falls Hydro Project in good faith and in the national interest.
Tiger Creek shopkeeper Ann Marie Carter yesterday faced a new human trafficking charge stemming from the alleged inducing of another woman into prostitution.
A driver died after being pinned by a tractor that toppled on a hill at Orealla, Corentyne River on Sunday.
The Caribbean Broadcasting Union (CBU) and its members have to evolve in the face of the wave of technological advancements and the push towards digitisation.
Promoters of the Slingerz Caribbean Summer Jam yesterday rejected assertions by Jamaican dancehall artiste Mavado that they are to blame for his no-show on Saturday and said statements by the artiste to this effect were false and malicious.
The Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) is seeking the assistance of the public to locate a man wanted for questioning in relation to narcotics trafficking.
Shaune Bourne, who was involved in the Agricola smash-up that resulted in 17 persons suffering injuries on Sunday, succumbed yesterday at the Georgetown Hospital.
Chief of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force, Gary Best was yesterday promoted to the rank of Rear Admiral, the Govern-ment Information Agency reported.
Nurses at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) are under investigation for their treatment of an expectant mother, who lost her baby during labour at the facility.
President Donald Ramotar is hoping a new GuySuCo board would be installed in a month’s time.
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