Ramkarran urges removal of sweeping presidential immunity provisions
Commentator Ralph Ramkarran has called for the expungement from the constitution of sweeping immunity provisions for the President.
Ranks of the Tactical Services Unit (TSU) and Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT) were yesterday engaged in an early morning ’Fitness Walk’. The ranks were led from the front by Deputy Commissioner ‘Operations’, Ravindradat Budhram accompanied by Second-in-Charge of Operations, Senior Superintendent Ewart Wray and Officer-in-Charge of TSU, Superintendent Brian Lowenfield along with other senior and junior officers. The walk commenced from the Rupert Craig Highway (Sheriff Street) and ended at the Kingston Seawall Esplanade, where the officers and ranks engaged in a light stretching activity. (Police photo)
The epic of the Bamia Primary School contract rumbles on. The contract was awarded in November 2021 and was intended to run for twenty months, but its completion date has been postponed more times than anyone cares to remember.
Holly Monderson, a 51-year-old clothes vendor of Lot 9 Norton Street, Lacy-town, Georgetown, was robbed and beaten on Tuesday night at her camp located at Issano Landing, Middle Mazaruni, where she operates her business.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) on Friday hosted a lottery in Bartica, Region 7 for medium-scale mining properties.
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The ‘Green Machine’, Guyana’s National Rugby 15s team, made a triumphant return to action, narrowly defeating Trinidad and Tobago in the first leg of their Rugby Americas (RAN) 15s match yesterday.
Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Berbice Championship Trafalgar, East Bank Gunners, Big Ballers, and East Bank Young Guns clinched berths to the semifinal round following wins in the quarterfinal and round of 16 segments respectively when the Guinness ‘Greatest of the Streets’ Berbice Championship commenced on Friday night.
…as GCB T10 Blast continues Fans over on the West Coast of Demerara were treated to a triple-header at the Meten-Meer-Zorg ground as the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) T10 Blast continued yesterday with the Berbice Caimans, Berbice Piranhas and Demerara Pitbulls all chalking up victories.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Dr Dodridge Miller has been appointed Chancellor of The University of the West Indies (UWI).
(Trinidad Guardian) Government and Auditor General Jaiwantie Ramdass appear to be at loggerheads over an error detected in T&T’s 2023 revenue data.
(Reuters) – Haiti’s transition council yesterday said it will vote for the country’s next president on Tuesday as part of efforts to bring the Caribbean country under control amid rampant gang violence.
KYIV, (Reuters) – Fighting in eastern Ukraine has worsened and Kyiv’s troops have fallen back to new positions in at least three places along the front, Ukraine’s top general said today.
RIYADH, (Reuters) – Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas and several international officials will be in Riyadh this week for talks aimed at pushing for a peace agreement in Gaza to be held on the sidelines of a World Economic Forum meeting, the WEF’s president said on Saturday.
MADRID, (Reuters) – Thou-sands of Socialist Party supporters travelled from across Spain for a rally in Madrid yesterday to call on Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez to stay on, after he stunned the country this week by saying he might quit the premiership.