GTA Head Indranauth Haralsingh deems Tourism Awareness Month successful
AT a press briefing yesterday, president of the Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA), Indranauth Haralsingh, declared that the Ministry of Tourism saw Tourism Awareness Month, held in November, as a major...
View ArticleSoesdyke mason charged for ganga possession in East Berbice raid
TWENTY-SIX-YEAR-OLD mason, Kevin James of Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara was yesterday granted bail when he appeared in a Berbice court charged for ganga possession. The police had, on the previous day...
View ArticleRohee: No fallout resulting from not naming elections date
GUYANA will head to the polls more than a year early, according to an announcement made by President Donald Ramotar over the weekend; and while no date has been set, the ruling party expects no fallout...
View ArticleTourism Awareness Month activities… Berbice Wedding Expo, Rupununi Christmas...
THE Ministry of Tourism’s Guyana Tourism Authority (GTA) yesterday stated that plans are in place for the remainder of 2014 and also for the beginning of the New Year 2015, after successfully...
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20 Agricola youths complete police-sponsored cookery class
TWENTY youths from Agricola, East Bank Demerara, among them a lone male, graduated last Saturday from a twelve-week basic cookery class which was sponsored by Commissioner of Police Seelall Persaud...
View ArticleGFS still probing cause of De Hoop rice bond blaze
SINCE the rice bond fire on December 4 at De Hoop, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara, when the storage area with rice and paddy to be shipped overseas was destroyed, resulting in millions of dollars in...
View ArticleDigicel launches over 20 attractive handsets –to ‘make Christmas better’
DIGICEL Guyana on Sunday launched their Christmas handset offers, unveiling more than 20 attractive and affordable handsets starting from as low as $3,500, VAT inclusive. Among the handsets launched...
View ArticleMan shot at friend’s home during ‘gunplay’ dies –PM set for today
AFTER more than two weeks of being hospitalised in an unconscious condition in the High Dependency Unit (HDU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation, the Kitty resident who was shot and injured...
View ArticleGuyanese busted with cocaine in Antigua facing charges
GUYANESE Chandradav Laklan, 29, who ingested 2lbs of cocaine in pellets, was busted after he exited a Caribbean Airlines flight from Guyana at the V.C. Bird International Airport in Antigua on December...
View ArticleGovernment Ministers urge nation to vote on merit –to beware of racist platforms
GUYANESE are being urged to be cautious of the racist platforms and screens that are being put forth during the run-up to general and regional elections, and to vote on merit, as racism would only...
View ArticleAngoy’s Avenue homes to be electrified very soon
AS it transforms itself from a farming area to the largest soon-to-be- regularised squatting community locally, Mount Sinai, commonly referred to as Angoy’s Avenue, is now electrified. However, power...
View ArticleToshao at St. Monica/Karawab Toshao resigns
TOSHAO Kenrick Lewis of St. Monica /Karawab Amerindian community, some 65 miles up the Pomeroon River in Region 2, has resigned because of domestic problems. Reports said the matter was raised at the...
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One Laptop Per Family Project… A telling success story with immense good
THE One Laptop Per Family (OLPF) Project breathes of far-sightedness, success and initiative; every Guyanese should sing a paean for this venture. At the end of 2014, the statistics will show that...
View ArticleStray Catchers very active in police ‘A,’‘B,’‘C,’ and ‘D’ Divisions
THE Home Affairs Ministry (MoHA) has reported that a total of 198 animals were impounded in ‘A,’ ‘B,’ ‘C’ and ‘D’ Police Divisions during the month of November 2014. The Georgetown Unit accounted for...
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Substance abusers recall…‘It all started with a little puff on a cigarette’
DRUG addiction, a phenomenon that has today turned out to be Guyana’s biggest menace, waging an unprecedented and debilitating onslaught on the minds of the vast majority of its users, in many cases...
View ArticleCabinet arranges televised programmes for ministers’ yearly reviews
SPEAKING at a press briefing on Wednesday last, Head of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon stated that Cabinet at a meeting on Tuesday concluded arrangements for the presentation of...
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Police deliver Christmas cheer to Agricola groups
THE Police ‘A’ Division, through the Ruimveldt Police Station, last Saturday concluded its youth programme in Agricola with a grand children’s party where close to two hundred children were feted with...
View ArticlePM reveals… Mango Landing murder victim died of ‘multiple gunshot wounds’
A POST-MORTEM examination on the body of 50-year-old businessman Linden Mc Almont of Robindra Street, Annandale, East Coast Demerara showed that the man died of multiple gunshot wounds about the body....
View ArticleStarting tonight at Port Mourant… Superb Bollywood shows slated for Berbice,...
AT the SleepInn Hotel on Brickdam yesterday during a press conference, International Promoter Ramjodha from New York and Kumar Saxena from India disclosed plans for the hosting of a superb Bollywood...
View ArticlePPP urges GECOM to recruit competent Polling Day staff –to avoid recurrence...
THE People’s Progressive Party is calling on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to ensure that measures are being put in place to ensure a select group of competent and suitable persons are...
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