Stabroek News

Oceans as an investment priority

By Emma Navarro OSLO – The Earth’s oceans face many threats, none of which have quick fixes. Still, the solutions are known, and with a sufficie…

Guyanese students win top CAPE, CSEC awards

Guyanese students have clinched the top CAPE and CSEC 2019 awards, according to the Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC). According to a CXC rel…

Barcelona rocked by violence on fifth day of separatist protests

BARCELONA, (Reuters) - Hundreds of protesters battled police in the heart of Barcelona yesterday, setting up fiery barricades and hurling rocks…

Spain’s court rules against extraditing Venezuelan ex-spymaster

MADRID, (Reuters) - Spain’s High Court ruled yesterday that the government should refuse a request from the United States to extradite Venezuela…

Public being asked to tip-toe around the Constitution

Dear Editor, The talk of compromise on the Rule of Law is an invitation to anarchy. Indeed, it may be anarchy itself, a proposal for a non-recog…

Strategic and border issues must be at forefront of foreign policy, local exporters have capacity challenges

Dear Editor, I was pleased to see the recent Stabroek News editorial published on the country’s foreign policy and more specifically its plea fo…

Cabinet rejects Eastern Airlines application to operate in Guyana

An application for operations in Guyana sent in by rebranded airline, Eastern Airlines LLC, formerly called Dynamic Airways, has been rejected b…

Trinidad: Funeral home employee arrested, charged for mortuary marijuana

(Trinidad Express) A 62-year-old employee of funeral home, is expected to appear before a Port of Spain Magistrate today, after being arrested a…

Trinidad: Anand, Ramdeen facing multiple corruption charges

(Trinidad Express) A series of corruption charges were last night being laid against former attorney general Anand Ramlogan, SC, and United Nati…

Student caught on video assaulting schoolmates suspended from NA Technical Institute

The New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI) has suspended the student caught on video assaulting three of his schoolmates late last month, the…

Two Trinidad judges break ranks with Judiciary’s statement over Ole Mas criticism

(Trinidad Express) Two High Court judges have distanced themselves from the Judiciary’s statement regarding an incident on the front steps of th…

Ground broken for US$250m Jamaica hotel

(Jamaica Observer) Prime Minister Andrew Holness on Wednesday participated in the official ground-breaking ceremony for the US$250-million ($34-…

Salvadorans voice hope for change after outsider sweeps to presidency

SAN SALVADOR, (Reuters) - Salvadorans voiced hope for a changed country yesterday after political outsider Nayib Bukele won a sweeping victory i…

All seamen recruited for Exxon are Guyanese, Ramps subsidiary says

El Dorado Offshore (EDO), the local subsidiary of Ramps Logistics, has said all the seamen it has recruited for ExxonMobil are Guyanese, despite

Estonia e-gov’t team briefs Cabinet on digital governance

Chairman of the Management Board of the e-Governance Academy (eGA) of Estonia, Dr. Arvo Ott, accompanied by Marit Lani and Tõnis Mäe, presented…

Trinidad: Five months after abduction, Darrell Cuffy has been found

(Trinidad Express) Five months after he was abducted, victim Darrell Cuffy was released yesterday. Around 1 a.m. Cuffy was released near the Car…

An unexpected comedic turn in “Venom”

I walked out of “Venom” with the dopiest smile on my face. It’s slightly disorienting that “Venom,” which in its promotional materials leans in…

Teixeira writes SOCU for probe of Patterson over bridge study contract

Opposition Chief Whip Gail Teixeira has written the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) calling upon it to undertake a comprehensive investigati…