CARACAS, (Reuters) – Venezuela’s flamboyant socialist leader Hugo Chavez said yesterday he had undergone a successful operation in Cuba to remove cancerous cells from a tumor and was on the road to full recovery. The 56-year-old president looked grave and emotional in his first speech to the nation since surgery in Havana on June 10 [...] [...more]
The 18-year-old computer student who admitted to staging her own abduction and demanded a $300,000 ransom for her release, has been slapped with three charges, and appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. However, one of the charges which implied that she had demanded the ransom by text message sent to [...] [...more]
- Minister Nadir The new draft for the re-tendering process for the One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) project is scheduled to be finalised by the end of this week, according to Minister of Labour, Manzoor Nadir, who explained that an unfinished draft “somehow accidentally” ended up being posted on the project’s website recently before it was [...] [...more]
British Virgin Islands (BVI) businessman Desmond ‘DA’ Alphonso was yesterday deported to his homeland Guyana after he was stripped of residency status from the island. Alphonso had lived in Tortola for some 40 years. Alphonso arrived on Guyanese soil just around 11:30 yesterday via the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, on a chartered flight from the [...] [...more]
An oversight yesterday by officials at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB) could have seen a contractor bidding for a contract denied the opportunity to have his tender opened and processed. Interested contractors were requested, as usual, to submit bids to work on various government projects by Monday, in time for them to be [...] [...more]
De American embassy bruck up nuff family. Men mind children and play wid dem; some men walk out wid dem children just fuh mek de wife get some rest suh de child can sleep. In de end some men sit down and boast how dem got three son and two daughter. De American embassy mek dem [...] [...more]
N/A Prison breakout… - Joint Services source Members of the Joint Services are continuing their sustained work with the aim of recapturing three inmates who escaped from the New Amsterdam Prison a little over two weeks ago. This follows the recapture of Vijay Seenarine last Sunday as he was walking along J.C. Chandisingh Road at Rosehall, [...] [...more]
Recently the Environmental Community Health Organization (ECHO) concluded its “Improved School Yard Competition” at primary schools within Region Three as part of its objective in promoting an environmentally friendly school atmosphere. Some 16 schools participated in the event, with the objectives of the competition being: to raise environmental awareness, enlist the cooperation of students in an [...] [...more]
By Sean Devers in Barbados In association with Digicel, Carib Beer & Queensway VVS Laxman, a 36-year-old veteran of 122 Tests and 16 centuries, yesterday spearheaded an Indian revival after West Indies had reduced his team to 44-4 by Lunch on the first day of the second Test on a Kensington Oval track with pace and bounce. But [...] [...more]
By Rawle Welch Despite the soggy conditions that prevailed at the Mackenzie Sports Club ground, the two combatants Christianburg / Wismar Secondary School and New Silver City treated a fair-sized crowd to a wonderful brand of football in the final of the Region 10 segment of the Digicel-sponsored Nationwide Schools Tournament yesterday. In the end, Christianburg / [...] [...more]
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