Last Updated on Saturday, 24 August 2024, 18:53 by Writer Businessman Lawrence Duprey has died, several sources close to him have confirmed to the Trinidad Express. Duprey was best known for his role as the former executive chairman of CL Financial and director at Colonial Life Insurance Company (CLICO) (Trinidad) Limited. In 2009, the Trinidad and Tobago government had initiated ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 24 August 2024, 13:57 by Writer Guyana has asked port health staff to be on the lookout for persons with signs of monkeypox, also known mpox, even as doctors were being put on alert and vaccines have been stockpiled to be possibly given to vulnerable segments of the population, Health Minister Dr Frank Anthony said Saturday. ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 24 August 2024, 13:50 by Writer Public Works Minister, Deodat Indar has slapped opposition-aligned social media commentators, Sherod Duncan and Melissa Atwell with a GY$50 million defamation lawsuit. Mr Indar is also asking the High Court to order the duo to remove all false and defamatory posts from their Facebook pages, in addition to an injunction ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 24 August 2024, 19:08 by Writer A man was killed and five others were injured during a drive-by shooting on Joseph Pollydore Street (D’Urban Street), Lodge early Saturday morning. Dead is Anthony Havescombe, 40, a vendor of South Ruimveldt. Police said he succumbed to multiple gunshot injuries. The injured include former policeman, Teon “Spoil Child” Allen, ...

Last Updated on Friday, 23 August 2024, 19:06 by Denis Chabrol A man, who allegedly struck down and killed a Jamaican man in December 2019 in Queens, New York, was caught at a horse race meet in Guyana and taken back to the United States (US) where he was refused bail on Friday, officials and news reports said. Head of ...

Last Updated on Friday, 23 August 2024, 18:12 by Writer The main opposition People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) promises a 35% increase in salaries on a sliding scale for all government employees plus an increase in the income tax threshold to GY$150,000 if it wins the 2025 general and regional elections. “The PNCR/APNU is guaranteeing all public service workers that ...

Last Updated on Friday, 23 August 2024, 17:45 by Writer Jamaican, Dr Chantal Ononaiwu has been selected by the Regional Judicial and Legal Services Commission (RJLSC), the independent body responsible for recruiting staff and judges for the Caribbean Court of Justice (CCJ), to join the CCJ as a Judge. The CCJ said she would be filling the vacancy created by ...

Last Updated on Friday, 23 August 2024, 17:29 by Writer A natural edible coating, which was invented by a Guyanese food scientist, that will extend the shelf-life of certain types of produce will be supplied to farmers and sellers to help reduce food loss and lower consumer prices, according to a senior official of the Guyana Economic Development Fund. Invented ...

Last Updated on Friday, 23 August 2024, 17:30 by Writer Farmers in Region One (Barima-Waini) are getting international help to increase the production of turmeric and already a leading local company has promised to take all of the supplies, a senior official of the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) said Thursday. USAID Project Management Specialist, Durwin Humphrey said ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 22 August 2024, 21:06 by Writer A Public Health Nurse, who was in Berbice to inspect progress being made in vaccinating people against the human papillomavirus (HPV), was found dead in a hotel room in New Amsterdam on Thursday morning, police said. He was identified as 63-year-old Wilton Longford Benn who resided at 82 William Street, ...