Attorney-General declares….‘There must be a watchdog for the watchdogs of the...
GUYANA recently joined in observing World Press Freedom Day 2014, and during an interview on freedom of the press, Attorney-General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Mr Anil Nandlall reiterated his call...
View ArticleLynch’s Lawyer warns…
Any attempt at a re-arrest will lead to High Court action ANY attempt by the police and Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) to re-arrest former South American beauty queen, Carol Ann Lynch will see...
View ArticlePedestrian killed in hit-and-run accident
FIFTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD Shameer Mangal, of De Kindren, West Coast, Demerara, died Sunday after being hit by a motor vehicle on the public road in the village. Police said it happened about 22:15 hrs that...
View ArticlePolice hunting arsonist after domestic abuse
A MAN is reported to have set a house on fire at Port Kaituma, in North West District, after a series of domestic disputes. The blaze occurred on Sunday night following a quarrel between Eustace Simon...
View ArticleSonia Noel collaborating to raise sickle cell funds
THE Guyana Sickle Cell Association (GSCA) and the Sonia Noel Foundation for the Creative Arts (SNFCA) are collaborating in a charitable effort to raise funds.It is towards awareness and research into...
View ArticleSearch on for another Miss Guyana Universe
THE search has commenced for the replacement of Katherina Roshana as ‘Miss Guyana Universe’ to represent this country at the international pageant later in the year.Roshana has been promoting Guyana at...
View ArticleProbe into cocaine-laced SSS Tonic still ongoing
IT’S already ten days since the tragic occurrence in East La Penitence when five persons ingested cocaine-laced SSS Tonic and four of them died, but to date, no one has been charged. However, the...
View ArticleEssequibo rice farmer shoots reputed wife
–even with one-year bond still in effect UP to press time last evening, investigators in the Police ‘G’ Division, Essequibo, were hunting for 36-year-ld Kumar Bissoon, a rice farmer who allegedly...
View ArticleLOCAL GOVERNMENT ELECTIONS IS THE ANSWER
IN RELATION to the current catastrophe facing our city and municipalities across the country, and in particular the one in Georgetown, we hear and see being applied to the sick patient prescriptions...
View ArticleMUST GUYANESE SUFFER AGAIN BECAUSE OF PNC POLITICS?
A WELL-KNOWN columnist has clarified his position on today’s Guyana. “And what is that reality?” he asks. “Power lies in the hands of the opposition to prevent economic & financial ruin” of our...
View ArticleON WHAT GROUNDS DID YOU PREMISE YOUR STATEMENTS, MR AMBASSADOR?
Dear Mr Ambassador, Come take a walk with me; a walk back to reality; a walk in modern Guyana, and not in the 1980s, because your accusation of censorship levied against the Government would have been...
View ArticlePolice to roll out Impact Project in ‘Tiger Bay’
THE Guyana Police Force Impact Project will soon be rolled out in Rosemary Lane, Tiger Bay, and already, moves have started to have community leaders identified, who will serve as the link between the...
View ArticleFuel marker programme, a work in progress
… but a success thus far – GEA THE Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) has described its fuel marking programme that evolved as a result of complaints of significant smuggling of fuel, as a success, since its...
View ArticleIn Lotto promotion…
Carpenter, 20, wins first of two Mazda cars THE Guyana Lottery Company Limited (GLCL), yesterday, handed over the first of two cars offered to its winner, Satesh Ramcharran, of Foulis, East Coast...
View ArticleRepresentatives of Jesus Deliverance Mission pay courtesy call on President
ANOTHER church has stepped forward with an offer to assist government in moving towards addressing several of the social issues affecting Guyanese. Making this offer was the Jesus Deliverance Mission...
View ArticleRiver defence works at Good Success completed
THE Ministry of Public Works has recently wrapped up the third phase of River Defence Works at Good Success, East Bank Demerara. According to Kevin Samad, Chief Sea and River Defence Officer, the...
View ArticleSome customers bemoan quality of GT&T Internet and mobile services
LEADING telecommunications network in Guyana, Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GT&T) has been causing a number of “valued customers” to bemoan their allegedly “poor and inconsistent...
View ArticleUncovered manhole at Robb and Savage Streets poses threat to life and limb
A PARTLY covered manhole on the pavement at the corner of Robb and Savage Street, Georgetown, is causing some amount of public concern. Vendor Alva Moffatt told this publication yesterday that the...
View ArticleTime for Sooba to call it a day
THE bomb scare that rocked City Hall at the height of a statutory meeting and sent Town Clerk Sooba fleeing to safety would, of course, have left the PNC Councillors unmoved, because everyone knows...
View ArticleMEMORIES RESURGE FROM RODNEY’S CoI
THE Walter Rodney Inquiry currently underway has brought back memories that some people would prefer to leave buried in the sands of time.For the vast majority of Guyanese, it brings back memories of a...
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