Saturday, April 27, 2024

Regional

$10,000 bounty for shark

Port of Spain - A $10,000 reward is being offered to anyone who finds the shark that attacked, mauled, and critically injured a British tourist on Friday. The bountry will...

British national hospitalised after shark attack

SCARBOROUGH – A 64 year-old British national has been taken to the Scarborough General Hospital, after being attacked...

Haiti’s Prime Minister resigns

Haiti's Prime Minister Ariel Henry resigned on Thursday as a new council was sworn in to lead the...

Dominica High Court overturns ban on same-sex relations

Dominica's High Court has overturned a ban on consensual same-sex relations in the Caribbean island nation. The court ruled...

Port of Spain General Hospital NICU baby death toll jumps to 18

Port of Spain - Two weeks after the North West Regional Health Authority (NWRHA) announced that seven babies...

Venezuela releases Guyanese fishermen

GEORGETOWN, Guyana – Twelve Guyanese who were on board two fishing vessels detained by the Venezuelan navy about two weeks ago, were on Wednesday...

PAHO urges diagnosis, treatment of cancer during pandemic

Washington – Pan American Health Organisation (PAHO) director Dr Carissa F. Etienne on Tuesday called for ensuring diagnosis and treatment of cancer in the...

Four held after woman killed in church

Kingston – Minister of Culture, Gender, Entertainment and Sport Olivia Grange, expressed shock and outrage at the killing of a woman during a church...

Trinidad to get 100 000 doses of COVID vaccine, says minister

Port of Spain – Trinidad and Tobago has been allocated an initial 100 000 to 120 000 doses of the Oxford-AstraZeneca COVID-19 vaccine via...

Guyana’s govt to provide support for families of detained fishermen

Georgetown – President Irfaan Ali says the government has outlined a strategy to provide psychological, moral and other support to the families of the...

Earthquake shakes Guyana

Georgetown – Sections of Guyana were rocked by an earthquake with a magnitude of 5.7 on Sunday afternoon. According to the Civil Defence Commission (CDC), it...