By Khadidja Ba The ground-breaking ceremony yesterday for the new River Place Commercial Complex by Unicomer Guyana has set high hopes for this 55,000 square feet state-of-the-art commercial complex that will offer world class facilities as well as a new Logistics Park measuring 60 acres.
Leader of the People’s National Congress Reform, Aubrey Norton, yesterday announced that the Opposition would not be participating in the government-organized 58th Independence Flag Raising Ceremony, which is slated to be held in Linden tonight.
The management of SOL Guyana Incorporated and the General Workers’ Union (GWU) on Thursday signed a Memorandum of Agreement (MoA) that ensures SOL Guyana staff will receive a significant wage and salary increase and other fringe benefits for 2024 and 2025.
The news that the government will be training 3,000 Guyanese to weld through a new programme by the School of the Nations in collaboration with the Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) is a positive development.
Leader of the Opposition, Aubrey Norton has pledg-ed to commission a survey to assess the living conditions of Guyanese households.
By Mia Anthony Twenty-four-year-old Melissa David, of New Market Street, North Cummings-burg, Georgetown, appeared before Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday where she was charged with the attempted murder of her partner.
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By Michelangelo Jacobus Yesterday, amid the pouring rain, the International Cricket Council (ICC) Men’s T20 World Cup trophy made its last stop at the oldest cricket ground in the Caribbean, the world famous Bourda at the Georgetown Cricket Club (GCC).
MIAMI, Florida, CMC – St Lucia attorney general, Leslie Mondesir said ensuring a safe and secure space for the ICC Men’s Twenty20 World Cup is a priority for the Caricom security officials.
(Reuters) – World number one Novak Djokovic was beaten by Tomas Machac 6-4 0-6 6-1 in the Geneva Open semi-finals yesterday as the Czech reached his first ATP Tour final.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela aims to produce 1.23 million barrels per day (bpd) of oil in December, adding about 290,000 bpd compared to the start of the year, following the addition of drilling rigs, oil minister Pedro Tellechea said yesterday.
ACAPULCO, Mexico, (Reuters) – Guarded by more than a dozen police officers equipped with semi-automatic rifles and donning a helmet and bulletproof vest, Ramiro Solorio looks more like he is leading an armed raid than running for local political office.
(Trinidad Guardian) The four men who were killed by police during an alleged shootout in the mountains at Upper St Michael’s Road, St Augustine, yesterday morning, were yet to be identified up to last night.
(Reuters) – Exiled Chinese businessman Miles Guo scammed his followers out of more than $1 billion after Chinese authorities seized his property, a federal prosecutor said on Friday as Guo’s fraud trial began in New York.
THE HAGUE, (Reuters) – Judges at the top United Nations court ordered Israel today to immediately halt its military assault on the southern Gaza city of Rafah, in a landmark emergency ruling in South Africa’s case accusing Israel of genocide.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – Hundreds are feared dead after a massive landslide levelled dozens of homes and buried families alive in a remote village in northern Papua New Guinea early today, a resident said.
