Aurora Mining Project on stream for first gold production in mid-2015… –...
CANADIAN Mining Company, Guyana Goldfields Inc. (GGI) declared that construction activities at Aurora are in full gear and progressing on schedule and on budget with the first gold production on track...
View ArticleGOOD LUCK! : 15,200 children write NGSA exams today
THE National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations will be held today and tomorrow at hundreds of centres across Guyana. Approximately 15,200 candidates are registered to write this examination....
View ArticleJudge us by what we have done …PPP/C’s Indranie Chanderpal at New Hope
THE A Partnership of National Unity and the Alliance for Change (APNU+AFC)coalition can only come through the back door and that’s the way they do things.This was the message stressed at the People’s...
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St Margaret’s students have high hopes and big dreams for NGSA 2015
THIS publication visited St Margaret’s Primary School yesterday and found pupils tirelessly preparing for the two-day National Grade Six Assessment exam, which commences today. They shared with us some...
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First hearing of challenge to disbursement of IDB loan to Government set for...
THE legal challenge regarding a loan agreement inked between the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) and the Government of Guyana (GoG) will have its first hearing in the High Court today.The...
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Bogus cops to be charged over murder of security guard, GGMC worker
FORMER Guyana Defence Force rank and market vendor, 26-year-old Rayon Paddy of 278 South Ruimveldt Park, Georgetown, and construction worker, Orin Arthur, 25 years, of Block X Diamond, East Bank...
View ArticleVanessa Kissoon, four others appear before court
FORMER A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) Member of Parliament (MP) and longstanding People’s National Congress (PNC) member, Vanessa Kissoon, yesterday appeared before a magistrate in Linden...
View ArticleGECOM engages political parties on nomination day procedures
A WALK through of the procedures on nomination day, April 7, topped the agenda for a meeting hosted by the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) for political parties contesting the upcoming...
View ArticleGolden Fleece man breaks leg in horseback tumble
DENNIS Wilson, 38, of Golden Fleece, West Coast Berbice was earlier this week admitted to the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing three fractures to his right leg.Tragedy struck last Wednesday when he...
View ArticleIssano miner warded after cutlass attack –suspect gone into hiding
A MINER/farmer of Issano Landing in Region 7 was last Sunday severely chopped on the left arm by a cutlass- wielding man who has since gone into hiding.Morris Douglas, 39, who is at present a patient...
View Article‘Jumbie’ lash update… Mahdia man still warded, but much better
RODERICK Stevens of Mahdia, Region 8, remains warded at the Georgetown Public Hospital after being operated on for hemorrhaging and internal injuries to the left ear and eye after being dealt a severe...
View ArticleNGSA results expected on or before June 4
RESULTS for the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examination are expected on or before June 4, and Education Minister Priya Manickchand anticipates excellent results from students who are sitting...
View ArticleGTT upgrades Internet speeds countrywide
GUYANA Telephone and Telegraph Company Limited (GT&T), as promised, yesterday announced their countrywide rollout of upgraded Internet speeds, delivering new plans with speeds up to 10Mbps, the...
View ArticleRohee tells it like it is at Uitvlugt meet…‘This election is about winning...
GENERAL Secretary Clement Rohee spoke with confidence when he said, “We have never betrayed the people of Guyana; all the policies of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPP/C) have been for the...
View ArticleEntertainer robbed at traffic light stop –after exiting city bank
A PROMINENT member of the entertainment industry was on Monday robbed by a bandit in “broad daylight” while heading home after doing a transaction at a city bank.She has reportedly lost two cellphones,...
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Finance Minister assures of NIS’ long-term viability, success –at...
THE National Insurance Scheme (NIS) yesterday commissioned a spanking new $37M multi-purpose complex at Carifesta Avenue, here in the city, with Finance Minister, Dr Ashni Singh expressing Government’s...
View ArticleLuncheon says delivering on promised scholarship a matter of funding – after...
CABINET Secretary Dr Roger Luncheon has put to rest concerns expressed by Guyana’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) top student, Elisa Hamilton. Those concerns have to do with her...
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Involvement of ex-military officials in political fray worrying – Dr Luncheon
GUYANA’s military is a professional body that has endeared itself to the Guyanese people after the pre-1992 “indecencies and excesses” under the People’s National Congress (PNC) administration.But, Dr...
View ArticleNagamootoo preaching ‘latrine politics’ – Is he pimping his Indianness?
I WAS hoping that at the APNU-AFC rally at Whim in Berbice, the AFC prime ministerial candidate, Moses Nagamootoo, would have laid out his 40-year-old plan to balance the ethnic makeup of Guyana’s...
View ArticleRamjattan lies yet again
KHEMRAJ Ramjattan’s defence that he personally saw “massive numbers of Indo Guyanese” at the Whim rally is maybe “delusional”, but this man has a natural knack for lying. The propensity to lie is one...
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