Two more die by road accidents on ECD and WCD
THE police have reportedly arrested a man and seized an abandoned vehicle in connection with the discovery of the body of 51-year-old Mustak Alli of Annandale South, East Coast Demerara on the Courbane...
View ArticleRecord-equalling Klose salvages 2-2 draw for Germany
FORTALEZA Brazil(Reuters) – Germany striker Miroslav Klose came off the bench to score a record-equalling 15th World Cup goal and salvage a 2-2 draw against Ghana in a pulsating Group G game yesterday....
View ArticleRawle Marshall named national captain as GABF cuts CBC team to 18 : - Final...
WITH just nine days before the start of the CBC Championships in Tortola, the Guyana Amateur Basketball Federation (GABF), yesterday, named 17 players following two weeks of training at the Cliff...
View ArticleWeed cutter on $100,000 bail : -for allegedly stealing jewellery during...
FORTY-SEVEN-YEAR-OLD weed cutter, Ronald Subraj of Cumming’s Lodge, East Coast Demerara appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry and pleaded not guilty to stealing jewellery...
View ArticleBrazilian national gets 12-month sentence for break and enter, larceny
BRAZILIAN national, Jonatas Santos Ferreira was sentenced to 12 months’ imprisonment by Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on a break and enter and larceny charge on Thursday. The 23-year-old...
View ArticleTwo murder accused to face High Court trial : -after prima facie cases were...
TWO murder accused on Wednesday were committed to stand trial at the next practical session of the Demerara Assizes. Sylvester ‘Rambo’ Bristol, accused of murdering female taxi driver, Savitri Parma of...
View ArticleLarge mobile pump installed at Three Friends to improve drainage
THE Government, through the Ministry of Agriculture and the National Drainage and Irrigation Department [NDIA], has installed a large mobile hydraulic pump by the Three Friends sluice on the Essequibo...
View ArticleDr Prem Misir newly appointed HSDU Executive Director
FORMER Pro-Chancellor of the University of Guyana, Dr. Prem Misir Ph.D, MPH, M. Phil, B.S.Sc. (Honours), FRSPH has been appointed Executive Director of the Health Sector Development Unit (HSDU),...
View ArticleAt ACP/EU meeting… : Ms. Rodrigues-Birkett says situation with sugar price is...
MINISTER of Foreign Affairs, Ms. Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett on Friday told the members of the 39th Joint Council of the ACP- European Union (ACP-EU) that the situation is extremely serious and untenable...
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Nine-year old boy seeks $$ for cancer treatment in US : -First Lady, PYO...
FIRST LADY, Deolatchmi Ramotar yesterday joined members of the Progressive Youth Organisation (PYO) at a fund raising event in supporting a nine-year old cancer patient who is suffering from a rare...
View ArticleOpposition putting its narrow agenda before welfare, interest of the...
Pull quote: “Unfortunately, the Opposition seems to have put more importance on its own narrow political, Party agenda before the welfare and interest of our people.” – President Donald Ramotar GUYANA...
View ArticleRare Guyana stamp fetches whopping US$9.5M
–at New York auction A RARE 19th Century postage stamp from British Guiana, the former British colony now known as Guyana, has been bought by an anonymous bidder for a record US$9.5 million at auction...
View ArticleYoung fisherman escapes fiery death on board fishing vessel
TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Orin Edwards of Cooklit Landing, Barama River, North West District, was severely burnt on his feet in a freak accident in the Moruca Creek last Tuesday. The incident occurred when...
View ArticleRehab Week kicks off with prayer breakfast
THE Ministry of Health’s Rehab Week kicked off yesterday morning with a prayer breakfast at the Promenade Gardens. Today, the Ministry will be hosting an ‘Open-Day’ at the Special Needs School in...
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Chief of Staff urges recruits to ‘keep continuing education in focus’
THE Guyana Defence Force on Friday graduated 276 soldiers who have completed 10 weeks of training on its first Basic Recruit Course for the year. The passing-out parade for this latest batch of...
View ArticleLaw students to host symposium on ‘Future of Legal Education’
–AG, Bar Association President among panellists UNDER the ambit of Moot Court Guyana, the Mooting Committee of the University of Guyana Law Department has organised a symposium for tomorrow at 4:00pm...
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Mayor Green walks out of solid waste disposal meet
–after testy clash with Local Gov’t Minister GEORGETOWN Mayor Hamilton Green, Saturday, abruptly left the panel in which several parties were discussing how to disburse the $1B budgetted to deal with...
View ArticleCity Police fingered in theft commits suicide
LANCE Corporal Compton Joseph is believed to have committed suicide at his Sophia home. Police report finding the 47-year-old Joseph dead in his house at Sophia just days after an internal audit...
View ArticleGCCI launches fifth edition of ‘Business Guyana’ magazine
THE Inter-American Development (IDB) Resident Representative to Guyana, Ms. Sophie Makonnen, has highly commended the Guyana Private Sector for the laudable role they played in Guyana achieving eight...
View ArticleMan heading to Imbaimadai nabbed with ‘ganja’
AT about 12: 20h on Saturday, ranks of the Police Narcotics Branch at the Ogle Airport conducted a search on the baggage of a man travelling on a flight to Imbaimadai, during which 502 grams of...
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