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APNU+AFC Councillor Andrea Marks staged a silent protest with two signs during Tuesday’s Satutory Meeting of the Georgetown City Council, calling for the firing of Town Clerk, Royston King. Marks was the only Councillor issuing the call as she questioned whether King had now taken over in behaviour from former Town Clerk, Carol Sooba. The […]
The 2016 United Nations Human Development Report on the Caribbean has found that although women in the region are better educated, they find themselves facing more challenges than men in the work place. According to the report which was released recently, women are disadvantaged in the labour market, with lower level and lower paying jobs […]
by Kurt Campbell at UN Headquarters (New York) United Nations (UN) member countries will gather at the UN Headquarters in New York, from September 13th for the 71st Regular Session of the General Assembly. They are expected to recommit to the 2030 agenda of implementing 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although progress has been recorded, […]
A popular Lusignan welder/fabricator is in Police custody this evening after he was nabbed by the Narcotics Branch of the Police Force with a quantity of cocaine hidden in fabricating equipment. The Police also found a firearm with matching rounds in the man’s possession. The bust took place early on Monday morning in the Lusignan […]
A West Ruimveldt man who worked with the 007 Taxi Service as a driver, was gunned down on Sunday night in King Edward Street, Albouystown as he made a food delivery. The dead man has been identified as 42-year-old Oswald Rambarran. He had gone to the area close to the cemetery just after 8:30pm, when […]
Police investigators are getting ready to file charges against a 19-year-old man who was drunk and driving when he slammed into another car, resulting in the death of a 4-year-old girl who was in that car with her family. The incident took place on Saturday night on Sheriff Street in Georgetown. According to a Police report, […]
The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CP&HA) is conducting a survey within communities where squatting is prevalent, to find available lands. Minister within the Ministry of Communities, Valerie Adams-Patterson told the Government Information Agency that the Department of Community Development has been surveying available lands in communities where squatting is prevalent. The Minister said that […]
Minister of Education, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine has announced that a Coordinator of Private Schools has been appointed to regulate the involvement of these essential stakeholders in the education system. This appointment also gives the private school operators an opportunity to make a structured contribution to the management and enhancement of the education system, Minister Roopnaraine said. […]
Police investigators in The Bahamas are investigating the brutal murder of a Guyanese woman who works in the island as a High School teacher. 35-year-old Marisha Bowen was found stabbed to death early this morning in her Summer Street Nassau Village apartment unit this morning. According to Bahamas Press, Police arrived on the scene shortly after […]
As the Foreign Affairs Ministry continues to probe press reports that newly appointed Ambassador to Kuwait, Dr. Shamir Ally has a criminal past, it has been revealed in legal documents that Dr Ally was never criminally charged or convicted of a crime. The documents which are available online point to a civil suit taken against […]
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