Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia A Brazilian gold miner was Tuesday morning shot and killed and another man severely gun-butted during an armed robbery, his wife told Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com). Dead is 52-years old Jose Francisco De Sousa Lima. Rebecca Calvan, said her husband was shot to his head. The incident occurred on ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Chairman of the Conference of Heads of Government of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Kamla Persad-Bissessar, Prime Minister of Trinidad and Tobago, will preside over the Thirty-Fourth Meeting of Heads of Government which opens in Port-of-Spain on Wednesday evening. Prime Minister Persad-Bissessar assumed the six-month rotational Chairmanship on 1 July. The ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia CARICOM Programme Manager( Human Resource Development) Dr. Morella Joseph has urged regional stakeholders to adopt in short order the Bridgetown Declaration and Agenda for Action to Combat Child Sexual Abuse in the Caribbean, according to the Antigua and Barbuda Ministry of Social Transformation. Dr. Joseph said this move is in ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia A rice farmer was Monday night robbed when six gunmen invaded his home at Black Bush Polder, East Berbice. 46-year old Mohammed Salim was also gun-butted to his head by one of the masked men, police said. No shots were fired. Chief of Criminal Investigations, Deputy Police Commissioner Seelall Persaud ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia (TRINIDAD EXPRESS)A TRINIDAD and Tobago cargo vessel was shot at on Friday night and forced to leave Guyana after the captain allegedly refused to transport drugs into this country, Coast Guard Lieutenant Commander Kirk Jean-Baptiste said yesterday. According to reports, the Adorra travelled to Guyana last month with a shipment ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Two hundred and ninety-eight Region Nine youths will begin receiving entrepreneurial training in the next two weeks as part of a government programme to assist economic development in their communities. This followed the launch of the Region Nine phase of the $200M Youth Apprenticeship and Entrepreneurial Programme on Sunday by ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia The effects of the current economic climate on Member States of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) and the framework within which the Community can achieve growth and development will be a major agenda item at the upcoming Thirty-fourth Meeting of the Conference of Heads of Government of CARICOM, the regional headquarters ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia (TRINIDAD EXPRESS).-Tonya Nero successfully defended her Caricom 10K women’s title, yesterday, while her Trinidad and Tobago teammate, Denzil Ramirez dethroned Guyana’s Cleveland Forde to cop the men’s title. The race took place at Queen’s Park Savannah, Port of Spain, taking the runners for one lap around the Savannah, exiting at ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia Caribbean Ministers of Labour will meet in Port of Spain on July 2 and 3, 2013 and will be addressed by Director General of the International Labour Organization (ILO), Guy Ryder. Nineteen Labour Ministers of the 22 ILO Caribbean Member States and non-metropolitan territories have confirmed their attendance to the ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:01 by GxMedia A man, who decided to settle a disagreement at a birthday party by firing a shotgun, was injured to his face. Police said the 12 gauge shotgun and an empty casing were handed over to the police at the scene of the shooting at Esau and Jacob, Mahaicony Creek, East ...