-as 32nd party congress opens -slams sterile `isms’ debate Addressing the 32nd Congress of the PPP yesterday, General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo declared that the party will focus on private sector growth and political pluralism without prejudice to the working people’s outlook that has guided it since its founding in 1950.
On May 3, 2024, Bryan Edwards appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, where he pleaded guilty to the offence of possession of a narcotic for the purpose of trafficking to wit 53.480 kg of cannabis.
The Guyana Teachers’ Union strike which began on February 5th this year lasted for a month.
Wendell Hamilton, 41, of Roraima Housing Scheme, West Bank Demerara, was on Friday sentenced to prison after he appeared before Magistrate Rhondel Weever at the Wales Magistrate’s Court for the possession of a firearm, ammunition, narcotics, and cultivating a prohibited plant.
Joseph Thomas, 70 , of Lot 5 Liverpool Village, Corentyne, Berbice, has been charged with being an accessory after the fact in the murder of two men on March 3rd at the Arimu Backdam, Region Seven.
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(CMC) – West Indies “A” had to settle for a 3-2 win in their five-match Twenty20 series against Nepal after the hosts followed up purposeful bowling with solid batting to clinch a six-wicket win yesterday.
– mixed quartet rewrites national record despite loss Guyana’s Mixed 4x400m and Men’s 4x400m relay teams placed sixth and eighth in their respective events last night at the World Relays in the Bahamas.
The defending National Women’s Chess Champion, Jessica Callender, will need to defeat the 13-year-old challenger to her throne, Aditi Joshi, as the two will clash today in the 9th and final round of the Guyana Chess Federation’s (GCF) 2024 National Women’s Championship.
(Trinidad Guardian) Four people are dead, and eight others wounded following a shooting in Cocorite, on Saturday night.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – More than a million people thronged Brazil’s Copacabana beach for a free Madonna concert yesterday, braving the heat to see the end of her “Celebration” world tour.
SAO PAULO, (Reuters) – Heavy rains in Brazil’s southernmost state of Rio Grande do Sul this week killed at least 55 people, local authorities said last evening, while dozens remain unaccounted for.
PARIS, (Reuters) – President Xi Jinping lauded China’s ties with France as an international model on Sunday as he arrived in Paris for a rare visit against a backdrop of mounting trade disputes with the EU.
BENGALURU/LUCKNOW, (Reuters) – Manipulated videos are taking centre stage as campaigning heats up in India’s election, with fake clips involving two top aides of Prime Minister Narendra Modi triggering police investigations and the arrest of some workers of his rival Congress party.
JERUSALEM/DOHA, (Reuters) – Israeli police raided a Jerusalem hotel room used by Al Jazeera as its de facto office on Sunday following a government decision to shut down the Qatari-owned TV station’s local operations, an Israeli official and an Al Jazeera source told Reuters.
