Heavy rain floods Linden
-PM sees negligence by town council Heavy rain over the last two days has swamped large parts of Region 10 and sections of Region Nine and Five and the Ministry of Public Works has mobilized resources to ease flooding.
(Reuters) – Tens of millions of people living in coastal areas around the Caribbean and Latin America face imminent risks to healthcare and key infrastructure as climate change brings more severe weather events, according to a United Nations report on Tuesday.
Thirty-year-old Cuban national, Lyon Sanchez Santy and 44-year-old Shazim Khan both appeared before Chief Magistrate (ag), Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with larceny.
Over the time of its lengthy existence, Main Street in Georgetown has served as the location of many iconic edifices, which have had, and in some instances still have, significant bearing on the course of our history.
The Government today said that it was deeply concerned about severe flooding in Region 10.
The National Toshaos Council (NTC) has advertised for a consultant to assist it with Free, Prior and Informed Consent (FPIC) consultations with indigenous communities.
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(Reuters) – Australia will be aiming to become the first team to possess all three of cricket’s global titles at the same time, but a bigger success will be if the T20 World Cup next month can help the game crack a lucrative market in the United States.
Newcomer Back Circle B won the ‘Settlement of All Arguments’ street-ball championship, defeating Taliban 2-1 on penalty kicks in the final on Sunday evening at the Mocha Community’s Centre ground tarmac.
Linden Technical Institute (LTI), the Guyana School of Agriculture (GSA), and the University of Guyana (UG) registered hard-fought wins when the Youth Basketball Guyana (YBG) Tertiary League continued at the National Gymnasium on Mandela Avenue.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela has revoked its invitation for the European Union to send election observers for a presidential contest in July, Elvis Amoroso, the head of the National Electoral Council (CNE) said yesterday.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s transition council yesterday tapped former Prime Minister Garry Conille, who briefly led the country over a decade ago, to return to the role as the Caribbean nation works to restore stability and take back control from violent gangs.
BOGOTA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s Constitutional Court denied yesterday proposals from the finance ministry to modify a ruling that struck down a ban on oil and mining companies deducting royalties from their taxes, in a move the leftist government has said will force an increase in the 2024 fiscal deficit.
SEOUL, (Reuters) – North Korea’s rare swipe at China this week underscored how Beijing and Pyongyang do not entirely see eye-to-eye on the latter’s illicit nuclear weapons arsenal, despite warming ties in other areas, analysts and officials in South Korea said.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Britain’s first Black woman lawmaker, Diane Abbott, said today she was dismayed the opposition Labour Party looked set to bar her as an election candidate over comments she made over a year ago about Jews and racism.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – The Kremlin said on Wednesday that President Vladimir Putin had appointed Alexei Dyumin, an aide and former bodyguard, as secretary of the State Council, an advisory body to the Russian head of state.