Incumbent PNCR Leader, Aubrey Norton yesterday clinched the vast majority of nominations for the leadership post at the June 28-30 Biennial Delegates Conference and he was followed by Roysdale Forde SC and Amanza Walton-Desir.
The Ministry of Natural Resources yesterday said that as part of its monitoring of Guyana’s petroleum industry, it has through the Local Content Secretariat, intensified its tracking for practices known as “rent-a-citizen” or “fronting”.
Construction is progressing at the Regional Hospital in Bath, Region Five. The hospital, which will be a tertiary care centre, is one of six state-of-the-art hospitals that are being constructed by the Government. (Office of the President photo)
Trinidad and Tobago, we are being told by the country’s media houses, is in the throes of a crime wave which, according to reports emanating from the twin island republic, threatens to significantly loosen the hands of the authorities on law and order.
Omni Helicopters Guyana Inc (OHGI) yesterday announced that after an intensive process it has selected its first two Guyanese citizens to participate in its Ab-Initio flight programme.
A key anti-money laundering report from Guyana was adopted at the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force’s (CFATF) 58th Plenary and Working Group Meetings earlier this month in Trinidad and Tobago.
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Guyana’s National Senior Men’s football team, the Golden Jaguars, will look to rebound from their 2-0 loss against Panama in their opening Concacaf World Cup Qualifier game last Thursday, when they come up against Belize today at 6 pm.
…as GTA Doubles Tourney continues The Guyana Tennis Association (GTA) Doubles Championship continued on Sunday night at the National Racquet Centre, Woolford Avenue with three matches.
Candidate Master (CM) Taffin Khan stayed unbeaten across nine rounds of chess matches against all comers to retain his title as the Guyana Chess Federation’s (GCF) National Chess Champion.
PORT-AU-PRINCE, (Reuters) – Haiti’s new prime minister yesterday condemned the gang killings of three police officers on a patrol in a part of the capital controlled by gang leader Jimmy “Barbeque” Cherizier.
(Trinidad Express) The son of a murdered senior superintendent of police was killed in a mass shooting in Chase Village on Sunday night.
(Trinidad Express) A 15-year secondary schoolboy of Enterprise in Chaguanas was fatally stabbed on Sunday.
LONDON/HONG KONG, (Reuters) – The rule of law in Hong Kong is profoundly compromised in areas where the government has strong opinions, a British judge who resigned last week from the top Hong Kong appeals court said yesterday.
NEW DELHI, (Reuters) – Narendra Modi was sworn in as India’s prime minister yesterday for a third term, after a shock election setback that will test his ability to ensure policy certainty in a coalition government in the world’s most populous nation.
JERUSALEM (Reuters) – Israeli minister Benny Gantz announced his resignation from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s emergency government on Sunday, withdrawing the only centrist power in the embattled leader’s far-right coalition amid a months-long war in Gaza.
