A 14-year-old girl injured in the fire has died in intensive care, as the teenage arson suspect faces murder charges.
The 15-year-old is accused of starting a fire in a school dormitory, killing 19, after her phone was confiscated.
Sunday’s late-night inferno killed 19 people, many of whom were Indigenous students from rural parts of the country.
‘It is painful,’ President Irfaan Ali says after tragedy in Mahdia, a gold-mining town.
The English-speaking nation on the Caribbean Sea is home to a small but influential Muslim population.
President Irfaan Ali discusses if green economies are unfair to Guyana’s oil explorations and development plans.
‘It’s like going into the telegraph business now when we are talking about 5G cellular,’ says one economist.
The UN is faced with doing more with less as international leadership gets tested in the COVID-19 era.
The Leticia Pact signed by 7 South American Amazonian nations was supposed to protect the world’s largest rainforest.
