Australia beat Pakistan by eight wickets in David Warner’s final Test match to seal a 3-0 series clean sweep. Opening batter Warner struck 57 as the hosts comfortably chased 130 to win on the fourth day in Sydney. An emotional Warner was given a guard of honour by Pakistan and…
Starting from this year, the Ministry of Public Service will be moving to offer Spanish tutoring to every public servant while another 2,000 persons will benefit from Information Technology (IT) training. The initiative forms part of the ministry’s effort to ensure that citizens are equipped with the necessary knowledge in…
(Jamaica Observer) The court-appointed administrator for the cash-strapped regional airline, LIAT, Cleveland Seaforth, says the airline will wind up its operations in its current form on January 24 this year. In a letter to staff outlining the latest position regarding the Antigua-based LIAT (1974) Limited on Thursday, Seaforth wrote “after…
President Dr. Irfaan Ali on Friday announced that the Governments of Guyana, Barbados and Trinidad and Tobago (T&T) formed a new company that will introduce a passenger and cargo regional ferry system. President Ali, while speaking at a contract signing event for the new US$35 million Mackenzie/ Wismar Bridge in…
Lestroy Archibald, a 29-year-old mason of Tuschen Squatting Area, East Bank Essequibo, was on Friday ordered to do three months of community service following his guilty plea to the possession of narcotic for the purpose of trafficking. He appeared at the Diamond Magistrate’s Court before Senior Magistrate Sunil Scarce, where…
Gurudeen Lalaram, the man who clubbed his wife to death on Old Year’s day, was charged on Thursday with the indictable offence of murder. Amanda Persaud, the Parika, East Bank Essequibo woman killed by Lalaram, was beaten with a piece of wood he picked up from the road on December…
The Plantain Walk, West Bank Demerara (WBD) house that went up in flames and claimed the life of Venezuelan national, Richard LaSado, on Friday morning has been at the centre of a family dispute for some time now. The owner, Bernadette Gordon told the News Room that a close relative…
President Dr. Irfaan Ali went to Linden, Region 10 (Upper Demerara- Berbice) on Friday to oversee the contract signing of the new US$35 million Mackenzie/ Wismar Bridge but he also sought to highlight his government’s track record in the region. The President easily switched between humour and quoting Bible verses…
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Charles Ramson Jr. has lauded the investors of the Timehri Sands Golf Course and Country Club for taking ‘a leap of faith’ and embarking on the multi-million US dollar project. Pegged at US$3 million, the nine-hole golf course, which will eventually be developed to…
A new US$35 million Mackenzie/ Wismar Bridge in Region 10 (Upper Demerara- Berbice) will be built by the China Railway Construction Corporation Limited following a contract signing event on Friday. The contract for the new four-lane, concrete bridge was signed between the government and the Chinese company that is also…
