Fighting fire! – recognising improvements within the Guyana Fire Service
FOR those critics, especially from the political Opposition who, for the well-known exercise of soliciting sympathy from their constituents, continues to criticise the Government for its socio-economic...
View ArticlePresident Ramotar meets Essequibo centenarian
PRESIDENT Donald Ramotar while on a two-day visit to the Essequibo Coast on Wednesday and Thursday took time off from his busy schedule to visit a 103- year -old resident of Aurora village. The...
View ArticleFirst Burma Road tragedy victim for cremation Sunday
EIGHT –YEAR- OLD Martina Persaud, one of the six children who died in a tragic road accident on the Burma Road last week Friday along with their schoolteacher will be cremated tomorrow Sunday according...
View ArticlePolice launch manhunt for alleged rapist of eight-year-old niece
THE eight-year-old girl of 6 Miles Arakaka, North West District, who has accused her step-father’s brother of raping her, is said to be in a stable condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital where she...
View Article‘I DREAM OF KRISHNA’
The dark, godly prince whose divine smile so entranced Radha, the little girl sitting in the temple, her hands clasped in prayers, she uttered his name in reverence. She had been named after Radha, the...
View ArticleELECTIONS CORNER
Starting today and continuing until Elections, the Chronicle newspaper will be publishing a weekly feature from the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) in the interest of disseminating pertinent...
View ArticleProtected Areas landmass to be increased by 3.2%
THE Protected Areas Commission (PAC) intends to increase Guyana’s landmass under Protected Areas (PA) status from 5.3% to 8.5%, Commissioner Damien Fernandes has disclosed. Fernandes recently said that...
View ArticleIAC hosts ‘Rang Barse’ at Bath today
THE Indian Arrival Committee (IAC) will be holding a pre-Holi celebration ‘Rang Barse’, at the Bath Settlement Tarmac, West Coast Berbice starting from 16:00 hrs (4 pm) today. IAC’s now annual Rang...
View ArticleLarge silver deposit found in Guyana – amounts to 6.3 million ounces
THE Canada-based mining Company, Sandspring Resources Ltd., announced last week that it had discovered a large deposit of silver at Toroparu in Region 7 (Cuyuni/Mazaruni) and that it intends to exploit...
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M15 rifle, .32 pistol used in Little Diamond execution
POLICE sources yesterday afternoon confirmed to this newspaper that the persons who carried out the execution-style killing of 31-year-old Trevor Adams of Samatta Point, Grove, East Bank Demerara, used...
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GPHC’s first in house neurosurgeon having overwhelming impact at hospital
THOUGH still in its initial setup stage, the newly specialised Neurosurgical Department, at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), complemented with its first local neurosurgeon, has...
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Dr. Dale Dan is Vice President of Teleperformance …will help state-of-the-art...
TELEPERFORMANCE, the global leader in outsourced multichannel customer experience management, announces the addition of Dr. Dale Dan as Vice President of Operations for its new state-of-the-art contact...
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Pre-election poll finds… Opposition alliance favours Ramotar/Harper ticket...
AN opinion poll conducted by the North American Caribbean Teachers Association (NACTA) in February has found that a majority of the nation opposes the formation of an alliance between the two main...
View ArticleAfrico Selman resigns from APNU — cites ‘infighting’ as reason, and asks:...
A Partnership for National Unity’s (APNU) frontbencher Africo Selman has resigned from the partnership and from the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR), citing “infighting” within the partnership....
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VENGEANCE POLITICS: What motivates Opposition’s vengeance?
WHAT motivates Parliamentary Opposition leaders to discharge nasty anti-Government venom against their own nation’s democratically-elected Government? These leaders spew a litany of woes, accusing...
View ArticleLuis Figo in favour of live FIFA presidency debate
LUIS FIGO says he would jump at the chance to take part in a live televised debate with Sepp Blatter and the other two candidates running for the FIFA presidency. Sky and the BBC have written to the...
View ArticleMercedes chief rubbishes claims
THE CHAIRMAN of Mercedes has rubbished claims Lewis Hamilton could be offered a staggering £1 million-a-week in wages.Toto Wolff has dismissed newspaper reports that the world champion could be offered...
View ArticleIrish back themselves to deal with de Villiers threat
(REUTERS) – Ireland will not be altering the way they play to counter the batting threat of South Africa’s AB de Villiers in today’s Pool B clash in Canberra, skipper William Porterfield said...
View ArticlePersaud spins Cultural CC to win over Media XI
FORTY-eight-year-old Sham Persaud rolled back the years last Sunday, with an incisive spell of spin-bowling to lead Cultural Cricket Club (CCC) to a 24-run victory over the Guyana Media XI in a feature...
View ArticleBounty Farm Handicap Squash Tournament Khalil retains Open title with a...
JASON RAY Khalil made a successful defence of his Bounty Farm Handicap open title when the curtain came down on the Guyana Squash Association’s (GSA)-organised tournament at the Georgetown Club last...
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