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A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has called on the government to explain how President Irfaan Ali’s proposal to publish the names of prospective Guyana Development Bank borrowers would comply with the legislation governing the institution.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – US television networks resumed their coverage of President Donald Trump’s White House events today, amid an ongoing court fight over the administration’s decision to block CNN, MS NOW and Politico from the presidential grounds.
Firefighters today extinguished a vehicle fire on the Bharrat Jagdeo Demerara River Bridge, the Guyana Fire Service said.
(Reuters) – Haiti’s displacement crisis is spreading beyond the capital, with nearly 1.5 million people uprooted across the country, the International Organization for Migration said in a report published today.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Royal Caribbean Group’s agreement to buy half of Sandals Resorts International implies the Jamaican hotel chain will earn roughly US$600 million a year in earnings before interest, tax, depreciation and amortisation (EBITDA), which puts it on par with some of Europe’s largest resort groups.
SAN JOSE, (Reuters) – Costa Rica President Laura Fernandez dismissed Foreign Minister Manuel Tovar yesterday after he attended a high-level regional security meeting led by US President Donald Trump without notifying her, preventing her from participating in the gathering.
A memorial service is to be held on Wednesday, September 30th at the Brickdam Cathedral at 1.30 PM for the late poet, author, columnist and GuySuCo executive, Dr Ian McDonald.
(ESPN) West Indies’ players are set to endure a pay cut, with Cricket West Indies (CWI) announcing a 25% reduction in retainer fees as part of a wide-ranging series of steps being undertaken in what the board has termed “a comprehensive counterattack against all the challenges we face financially, developmentally and competitively”.
Dear Editor, The reported attempts to condition compensation to the family of MV Barima Chief Engineer Paul Seepersad upon signing documents absolving the Government of responsibility is deeply disturbing.
Criminal syndicates in the Americas are increasingly using illegal gold mining to move and conceal profits from the cocaine trade, INTERPOL Secretary General Valdecy Urquiza told a regional police conference in Georgetown on Wednesday.
Information gathered through international police cooperation must reach the officers who can act on it in time to make a difference, Prime Minister Mark Phillips told the INTERPOL Americas Regional Conference on Wednesday.
Dear Editor, At last! At last, someone with the courage. To contemplate and question, even challenge, the mighty American Eagle.
President Irfaan Ali yesterday made an unusually personal appeal at the UN General Assembly for Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett to become the organisation’s next Secretary-General, urging the Security Council’s permanent members to look beyond the size of the country that nominated her.
-after Rodríguez calls for renewed talks President Irfaan Ali yesterday urged Venezuela to abide by the International Court of Justice’s forthcoming decision on the border controversy between the two countries, a day after Venezuelan acting President Delcy Rodríguez used the same United Nations forum to call for renewed bilateral negotiations.
At least three gas stations in Georgetown, have upped prices with motorists now paying more for diesel and, at one location, all three grades of fuel. At
Commentator Christopher Ram has chided two government ministers over the state of the East Bank road at Friendship and the dislocation it is continuing to cause to commuters.
President Irfaan Ali yesterday told the UN General Assembly that CARICOM remained ready to help find a peaceful solution to Cuba’s difficulties, one that would allow Cubans to realise their aspirations.
LEEDS, England, (Reuters) – Sri Lanka pulled off a dramatic 16-run win over England in the second one-day International at Headingley yesterday to level the three-match series despite a heroic effort from injured Jos Buttler.
The Bath Regional Hospital in Region Five has begun offering dialysis and has treated its first kidney disease patient, according to a statement posted by the hospital.
A fire last evening destroyed the Trendz Setter Boutique, Lot 84 Robb Street, Georgetown. A release from the Guyana Fire Service (GFS) last night said that Water Tenders #130 and #131, Water Carriers #20, #26 and #30, Ambulance #25, and their respective crews from Headquarters, Campbellville and Eccles Fire Stations were dispatched to the scene.
