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Fire destroys West Bank house, motorbike workshop –leaves caretaker homeless
A FIRE of yet unknown origins swept through a flat concrete house at lot 16 Pouderoyen Public Road, West Bank Demerara on Saturday evening, leaving one person homeless and millions in losses, even as...
View ArticleGuyana set to see ‘significant’ increase in Dutch visitor arrivals –thanks to...
GUYANA is expected to benefit significantly in the tourism sector through the recently-concluded Surinamese Trade Mission that was aimed at enhancing trade relations between the two neighbouring South...
View ArticleFour ex-employees of Canadian mining company claim outstanding salaries
FORMER employees of the Canadian mining company, Mahdia Gold, are alleging that they have worked several months for the company without pay and were then subsequently dismissed without receiving their...
View Article18 footpath bridges constructed in communities in Regions 3, 4, 5 and 6
THE Community Infrastructure Improvement Project (CIIP) has invested over $4.6M recently to rehabilitate and construct 18 footpath bridges in several communities in Regions 3, 4, 5 and 6.Approximately...
View ArticleInvestigators find… Engine failure caused fatal crash of Cessna last January
CAPTAIN Blake Slater and loader Dwayne Jacobs, victims of the fatal aircraft crash near Olive Creek Region 7 (Cuyuni/Mazaruni) last year January, lost their lives due to engine failure of the ill-fated...
View ArticleNo change in PPP position on foreign ‘interference’ – Rohee
AN attempt to compare the ruling party’s disposition, relative to foreign involvement in domestic affairs, prior to 1992 and currently was rubbished by the Party’s General Secretary, Clement...
View ArticleRice sector stakeholders welcome reduced fuel price
THE reduction in fuel prices, announced by Finance Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh, yesterday was welcomed by the Head of the Guyana Rice Producers’ Association (RPA), Dharamkumar Seeraj. And in an interview...
View ArticleUGSS to host ‘Mr. & Mrs. UGSS’ pageant in February
AMIDST a small gathering in the Education Lecture Theatre (ELT) at its Turkeyen Campus, the University of Guyana Student Society (UGSS) yesterday officially launched a scholarship pageant titled “Mr....
View ArticleRegional bloc far from fiscal harmonisation -– CAIC President -trade laws...
WITHIN the regional sphere, particularly the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), the diverse nature of each country’s economic stability has landed the regional bloc in a state wherein it is far from fiscal...
View ArticlePSC, GMSA welcome reduction in fuel prices
THE Private Sector Commission (PSC) and the Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) have joined in welcoming Government’s much appreciated intervention in reducing the price of fuel. The...
View ArticleFinance Minister: Budget to be ready within constitutional deadline –...
MINISTER of Finance, Dr. Ashni Singh yesterday assured that his Ministry will be ready to present the National Budget for 2015 before the required deadline. The question on Government’s preparedness to...
View ArticleMinister Baksh reports… Rice crop not severely affected on flood-hit...
MINISTER in the Ministry of Agriculture, Mr. Alli Baksh, has said that the rice crop currently blooming on the Essequibo Coast has not been severely affected by the flood situation. He said some fields...
View ArticleEighteen shortlisted for 2015 Carib Soca Monarch competition
WITH the festivities of the 2015 Carib Soca Monarch looming just ahead, folks at ANSA Mc AL have declared the lucky eighteen shortlisted for this year’s competition. Thirty-two persons entered to...
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Amerindians and national education initiatives
A GINA Feature WITHIN the list of ‘neglects’ that the Amerindians of Guyana had to endure, during the years of the People’s National Congress (PNC) regime, was access to quality education. Region 7...
View ArticlePele FC launches 3rd Frank Watson and PT Stewart Memorial football
THE Pele Football Club yesterday launched the third edition of the Frank Watson and PT Stewart Memorial football tournament to commemorate their contribution to the sport. The Pele Football Club...
View ArticleEast Ruimveldt resident remanded on robbery under arms
DEON Clark of Lot 164 East Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was on Tuesday refused bail after being arraigned on charges of robbery under arms and attempted robbery. He appeared before Chief Magistrate, Priya...
View ArticleState-of-the-art facility will cater for merging of Brickdam Secondary and...
MINISTER of Education, Priya Manickchand last Friday clarified issues regarding the merging of the Brickdam Secondary School and Central High School and the establishment of a state-of-the-art...
View ArticleMoraikobai pensioner succumbs to injuries from fall
SEVENTY-three-year-old, Oswald Andries of Morakabai Village, Mahaicony, who suffered head, neck and spinal injuries when he fell from the “landing” (verandah) of a two-flat building Tuesday last week,...
View ArticleCemetery Road accident survivor still critical
SIXTY–FOUR-YEAR-OLD, Brian Aubrey Anthony Devine, injured in the New Year’s morning accident on Cemetery Road that claimed the life of sixty-one-year-old George Barker, remains warded at the Accident...
View Article‘I paid a bribe website’ records 111 reports valuing $10, 884 924 to date
PERUSAL of the “I paid a bribe website” by a reporter from the Guyana Chronicle, has revealed a total of 111 reports of bribery to the value of $10,884,924 has so far been recorded. Speaking about the...
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