Daily Archives: Jan 3, 2017

A 64-year-old Moravian pastor is expected to appear in court next week after he was charged with statutory rape following allegations that he had sex with a 15-year-old girl last month.

The World Federation of Trade Unions (WFTU) Tuesday expressed support for the Oilfield Workers Trade Union (OWTU) that has threatened to call a strike at the state-owned oil company, PETROTRIN from Wednesday if last minute talks over salary increases for workers fail.

The Office of the National Electoral Litigation (BCEN) Monday ruled that while there had been irregularities in the tabulation of votes cast in the November 20 presidential elections last year they did not “affect the electoral process”.

A Guyanese national who came to the United States to attend his grandmother’s funeral schedule for Wednesday, has been shot dead over a gold chain, becoming New York City’s first homicide for 2017.

President David Granger has implemented a second re-shuffling of his near two-year-old administration, removing Public health Minister Dr George Norton and replacing him with the Minister of Social Protection Volda Lawrence, the state-owned Guyana Chronicle newspaper reported Tuesday.

Three film production companies including Netflix are interested in making a warts-and-all screen dramatization of Nigel Farage's insurgent Brexit campaign, according to an associate of Farage.

Grammy Award-winning singer Mariah Carey shrugged off a botched New Year's Eve show in New York's Times Square, telling fans and critics on Sunday that life does not always go as planned.

"Rogue One: A Star Wars Story" and "Sing" loomed large at the multiplexes over the New Year's holiday, racking up the biggest grosses and ringing out 2016 on a high note.

The North American movie box office raked in $11.4 billion in 2016, making it the highest-earning year in history, according to box office tracker comScore.

Hollywood stars Tom Hanks and Nicole Kidman were among the actors honored at the Palm Springs International Film Festival on Monday night as the 2017 awards season began.