City bus conductor on $200,000 bail –on armed robbery charge
KITTY bus conductor Joel Prescott of 275 Stanleytown, West Bank Demerara appeared Monday before City Magistrate Ann McLennan to answer an allegation that on November 28 at Georgetown, being together...
View ArticleGhanaian who illegally entered Guyana fined, deported
GHANAIAN national Henry Vanderfly, who resides in Suriname, appeared Monday before City Magistrate Ann McLennan, charged with illegal entry into Guyana. The 37-year-old trader pleaded guilty to the...
View ArticleE/bo farmer remanded for narcotics possession
FIFTY-two-year-old John Duncan of Lot 15 Maria Johanna, Essequibo was on Monday refused bail by Magistrate Ann McLennan on two narcotics charges. The defendant, a farmer, pleaded not guilty to the two...
View ArticleSoldier involved in Kitty shooting death again refused bail
GUYANA Defence Force rank Alistair Woolford, who was recently remanded to prison for attempted murder, was on Monday refused bail by Magistrate Ann McLennan on a manslaughter charge. The accused was...
View ArticleGood news never tasted so sweet
IT has to be good news, both for the country and the entity itself, that GuySuCo (Guyana Sugar Corporation) is in the process of achieving its 2014 target of 216,000 tonnes of sugar.Again, this would...
View ArticlePublic Works Ministry buries sperm whale …22-ft deep on Kitty foreshore
AFTER dedicated efforts to remove the dead sperm whale from the Kitty foreshore on Tuesday proved futile, the Ministry of Public Works decided to dig a 22-feet deep grave and buried the male adolescent...
View ArticleAfter GLGOU/M&CC markets shutdown… Vendors to retaliate with ‘punch of their...
FOLLOWING a recently resolved dispute between the Georgetown Mayor & City Council and the Guyana Local Government Officers Union (GLGOU) which came after a three-day shutdown of the city’s major...
View ArticleIGNORING REALITIES
THERE is a saying that none so blind as those who cannot see. There are so many people in our society who refuse to accept the truth especially if that truth happens to be at variance with their...
View ArticlePSC, Bar Associations, DDL Boss boycott ‘farcical’ civil society summit
IT is unclear whether the actions of the Private Sector Commission, Bar Associations and Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) Chairman, Dr. Yesu Persaud were heeding the advice of the Office of the...
View ArticleCivil society needs to wake up—condoning ‘wiretapping’ for too long Concoctions
The call by supposed ‘civil society,’ that the Attorney General must go, rests upon the concoctions and figments of Kaieteur News. The noxious way the entity is still (mis)behaving, as regards this...
View ArticleGranger’s legal challenge begs the question Why? – HPS
HEAD of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon at his weekly post cabinet press briefing again reiterated cabinet’s position that all spending being undertaken by the Government is...
View ArticleThe Peshawar tragedy… President Ramotar sends his condolences –assures...
PRESIDENT Donald Ramotar yesterday sent President of the Islamic Republic of Pakistan, Mr Mamnoon Hussain, his deepest sympathy for the terror unleashed on the people of Peshawar on Tuesday, resulting...
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GPL’s Georgetown sub-station commissioned …propels electricity distribution...
GUYANA now boasts a modern integrated electricity grid, linking Berbice and Demerara, and the final component of the new system, the Guyana Power and Light’s Georgetown sub-station, Ruimveldt, was...
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A victory for Latin America and Caribbean – President – as he reacts to move...
THE latest move by the United States of America’s President, Barrack Obama, to establish formal relations with Cuba has been welcomed by President Donald Ramotar who described it as “a major step...
View ArticleRegular traffic restored at DHB after emergency repairs
AN incident on the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB) Wednesday afternoon caused by heavy-duty sand trucks left two end posts on span 17 and 18 broken, causing officials to suspend heavy duty traffic to...
View ArticleDr Luncheon: Georgetown municipal strike was ‘somewhat of a surprise’
HEAD of the Presidential Secretariat, Dr. Roger Luncheon at his post-Cabinet press briefing stated that the onset of industrial action in the Georgetown municipality was essentially somewhat of a...
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AFC not interested in partnering with APNU –wants to lead its own alliance
NEGOTIATIONS are ongoing to actualize the Pro-Democracy Alliance proposed by Leader of the Alliance For Change (AFC), Kemraj Ramjattan, at the recently concluded Party conference. David Patterson...
View ArticleWalton Hall farmer collapses, dies
“SEERAM”, a 55-year-old farmer/businessman of Walton Hall village, Essequibo Coast, collapsed and died while walking along the Hampton Court public road on Monday afternoon. He had reportedly been...
View ArticleAnna Regina Town Council gets computer gift –from overseas-based Guyanese
UNDER management of the IMC, the Anna Regina Town Council has received a much-needed computer from US-based Guyanese Mr Dindyal Narine. This computer was reportedly requested by Councillors Harry...
View ArticleMCYS had remarkable year with its museums
MINISTER of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr Frank Anthony, has highlighted the remarkable year the ministry has had with regard to the museums under its umbrella, at a press briefing held in the...
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