Friday, December 9, the Bank's board of directors approved grant financing for the project, which will help St Kitts and Nevis drill two geothermal production wells and one injection well. The project aims to build a 10-megawatt geothermal power plant, enough to meet Nevis's electricity needs.
Guyanese woman slapped with 14 fraud charges. Carol Smith-Joseph, a political activist in Guyana, appeared in court on allegations of fraud and was given bail in the amount of GY$140,000. The Special Organized Crime Unit charged Smith-Joseph, of West Coast Berbice, on Wednesday with 14 indictable counts of Fraudulent Appropriation of Body Corporate Property Committed on the Mahaica Abary Rice Development Scheme (MARDS).
Sherlet Stapleton, whose mother died last Wednesday at her home in Chateaubelair, is now in great distress and has suffered an asthma attack after what she told the St. Vincent Times was pure deception at the hands of an agent from the Memorial Funeral Home.
Two children missing after boat capsizes in Upper Pomeroon. Two children have gone missing after a boat powered by a 75-horsepower engine capsized in the Upper Pomeroon River last night. When the incident occurred, the children were on their way home with their parents.
Micah Williams, serving two life sentences for rape, had his appeal dismissed yesterday by the Guyana Court of Appeal. His conviction and sentence were upheld. Williams was convicted in 2018 of raping and sodomizing a 7-year-old girl in 2016 and 2017.