PREMATURE JUDGMENTS A DANGEROUS TREND
- AG says following report of Justice Kennard on Harding matter CHAIRMAN of the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) and retired Chancellor of the Judiciary, Justice Cecil Kennard, said on Tuesday that...
View ArticleAgents provocateurs extraordinaire
HATRED is the tool Guyana’s opposition used to create stratagems to drive their own agendas, and this has agonised and caused destruction to this nation time and again. This is the sad history of our...
View ArticlePtolemy Reid Centre looking for more teachers
THE staff of the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre is very happy with the new building that they recently occupied through a $50M investment by Government. But they are looking forward to having more...
View ArticleResourceful Spanish teacher creates her own bit of history
–with launch here of self-inspired Spanish alphabet card COMING out of many challenges was the launch yesterday of the first Spanish alphabet card created here by Mrs Ann Allyson Gilford-Benn, B.A., at...
View ArticleSWAT Unit goes into training at Police Officers Training Centre
THE Ministry of Home Affairs (MoHA), in collaboration with the Guyana Police Force (GPF), has launched the training programme for ranks who would be involved in the Special Weapons and Tactics (SWAT)...
View ArticlePPP says…Job well done, Mr President!
–In commendation letter for acquitting himself admirably at CELAC meet The following is a message sent President Donald Ramotar by the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), commending him for “representing...
View ArticleAt engineering conference…President decries poor supervision of...
–blames infraction on ‘coziness’ between engineer and contractor PRESIDENT Donald Ramotar, at the Fourth Annual Engineering Conference yesterday, called for greater supervision in that field and...
View ArticleGWI improves bill delivery system–campaign to collect customer debt continues
GUYANA Water Inc.(GWI) has acquired a private contractor for the delivery of water service bills as part of its current Customer Services Improvement Programme, the company said in a release. GWI...
View Article413 animals impounded by Stray Catching Units in January
THE Ministry of Home Affairs (MOHA) has said that a total of 413 animals were impounded in January by the Georgetown and Berbice Stray Catching Units, and this number comprised of 208 cows, 89 goats,...
View ArticleUNESCO helps National School of Music promote traditional art forms
–with timely donation of key tools of the trade THE National School of Music on Brickdam, Georgetown has received a series of instruction manuals, a steelband, and music players to aid in resuscitation...
View ArticleChildren’s Mash….Brilliant choreography, spectacular costumery the order of...
–as the curtains come down on dance, masquerade contest WEDNESDAY marked the close of the Dance and Masquerade segment of the Georgetown leg of the annual Children’s Mashramani Competitions, with...
View ArticleU.S., Britain, Canada & EU encourage all stakeholders to work together to...
KEY western nations – the United States, Britain, Canada and the European Union – yesterday issued a statement, welcoming the “willingness demonstrated by all parties” to move Guyana towards compliance...
View ArticlePolice Force acquires fraudulent document detection kits
- donated by Canadian NGO THE Canada Fund for Local Initiatives (CFLI) has donated to the Guyana Police Force (GPF), through the Canadian High Commission, more than 200 fraudulent document detection...
View ArticleBelize trying to dodge Caribbean Financial Action Task Force bullet
‘WE CAN COMPLAIN, BUT WE HAVE TO COMPLY!’ - Says Belize Opposition Leader Francis Fonseca (The following is excerpts from an article published yesterday in ‘Amandala’, said to be the leading newspaper...
View ArticleNo progress made during engagement with Mayor’s Office – Minister Whittaker
MINISTER of Local Government and Regional Development Norman Whittaker said, yesterday, that the frequency with which he has had engagements with the Georgetown Mayor and City Council, has been reduced...
View ArticleAPNU, AFC ‘buckling under pressure’
- Finance Minister calls on Civil Society to maintain pressure on Opposition to pass AML/CFT Bill FINANCE Minister Dr Ashni Singh said the return of two members of the Opposition to the AML/CFT meeting...
View ArticleFormer President Jagdeo at Delhi Sustainable Development Summit
- joins the likes of Kofi Annan in addressing the high-level forum FORMER President Dr Bharrat Jagdeo has joined several high level officials including Mr Kofi Annan, former Secretary General of the...
View ArticleTorrential rains flood sections of UG
–but scheduled activities will be staged as planned WITH the University of Guyana (UG) having scheduled its annual Career Day for February 14, 2014 and a “Talent splash” for later in the evening, the...
View ArticleTundra driver in Liliendaal fatal accident remanded
- slapped with three charges HAFRAZ Mangroo, the 25-year-old driver of the vehicle which killed a woman on the Liliendaal Public Road last Wednesday evening, was slapped with three charges yesterday....
View ArticlePrivate Sector again appeals to Parliament to resolve issues hindering...
CHAIRMAN of the Private Sector’s Sub-committee for Trade and Industry, Mr Ramesh Dookhoo yesterday, during the first steering committee meeting of the National Competitiveness Council, appealed to the...
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