CARICOM ferry to operate from Parika – President

President Irfaan Ali arriving at Bonasika yesterday (Office of the President photo)
President Irfaan Ali arriving at Bonasika yesterday (Office of the President photo)

-processing hub for Bonasika An entrepreneurship programme targeting especially youth and women will be launched in the small Essequibo farming village of Bonasika and President Irfaan Ali also announced that the planned CARICOM ferry will operate from Parika.

Farmers at the meeting (Ministry of Agriculture photo)
Farmers at the meeting (Ministry of Agriculture photo)

Crabwood Creek small farmers to receive help to set up shade houses

100 small farmers from Crabwood Creek will be receiving help through the Ministry of Agriculture to set up  a shade house each  on their land to plant peppers to be able to supply an agro processing plant in Black Bush Polder – a new pilot strategy which is being embarked on by the government to assist small farmers in that area.

Jared Jagnandan
Jared Jagnandan

File on teen fatally shot at Lusignan auto sales still with DPP

-family incensed Two months after 18-year-old Jared Jagnandan was fatally shot at Shaf Auto Sales, Lusignan East Coast Demerara, the file is yet to be returned from the Chambers of the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) and the family is incensed. 

Remembering the 20 who died (Office of the Prime Minister photo)
Remembering the 20 who died (Office of the Prime Minister photo)

PM leads ceremony at Micobie for children who died in dorm blaze

Prime Minister Mark Phillips participated yesterday in a  ceremony at Micobie, Region Eight, to commemorate the lives of the 20 children who tragically perished due to a fire at the Mahdia Secondary School dormitory one year ago.

Iran Supreme Leader leads prayers at Raisi funeral as election looms

DUBAI,  (Reuters) – Iran’s Supreme Leader led prayers in Tehran today  at the funeral of the late President Ebrahim Raisi, as the clerical establishment hurried to organise an early election that could further erode its legitimacy amid growing public discontent.The