The head of the Parliament’s Library Department, Micahel Munroe, became the country’s latest road accident victim last evening when he lost control of his car along with the East Bank of Demerara and slammed into a truck. A Police report on the fatal accident said 52-year-old Michael Munroe who lives at Diamond, East Bank Demerara…

— next event slated for 14 -17 February, 2023 THE recently concluded International Energy Conference and Expo has accomplished 12 main areas of success and has laid a foundation for the next edition of the event slated for 14 -17 February, 2023. According to the organisers of the Conference and Expo, the event landed 32…

(BBC) – Russia, unsurprisingly, has veoted a draft UN resolution which would have deplored its invasion of Ukraine, after a debate at the Security Council. Eleven members voted in favour of the resolution. India, China and the UAE abstained. The resolution was doomed to fail because of Russia’s veto power as a permanent member of…

The Ministry of Education has launched a campaign across the country to find students who have not been attending school for a prolonged period and get them back in the classroom. The campaign, which is titled “Operation Recovery” is targeting all Education districts to locate primary school students who have been continuously absent from school…

— government monitoring situation, says Minister Parag MINISTER of the Public Service, Sonia Parag, has said that the government is actively monitoring the situation between Russia and Ukraine, to decide on a way forward as it pertains to Guyanese who may be in either of the two countries, or other neighbouring countries in the Eastern…

The US State Department’s Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) recently conducted training programmes for senior members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF), the Office of the Director of Public Prosecutions, and the Judiciary. The training was the second in a series of training initiatives for Guyana’s criminal justice sector. The first one…

— says aggression against Ukraine is a threat to the region and countries everywhere GUYANA’S government, on Thursday, issued a statement denouncing the recent military intervention against the sovereignty of Ukraine, and called for a return to diplomacy in the eastern European Bloc. “Government of Guyana deplores the treat or use of force in the…

The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) met with officials at Guysuco today on the issue of the workers at the Enmore packaging facility who are likely to be displaced by the new company that will be taking over the complex to build machinery and parts for the oil and gas sector. According to…

COPENHAGEN (Reuters) – Denmark will increase its contributions to NATO forces by deploying around 200 soldiers to Estonia as well as two F-16 fighter jets to perform aerial policing in Poland’s air space, the government said on Thursday, as a response to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The soldiers, which would take part in NATO’s operations…

Feb 25 (Reuters) – Syrian President Bashar Al-Assad has called his Russian counterpart Vladimir Putin and supported his position regarding Ukraine, the Syrian presidency said in a statement on Friday amid the ongoing Russian invasion. Syria has been a staunch ally of Moscow since Russia launched a military campaign in Syria in 2015 that helped…