Feed the Flames’ Josi to launch solo album
IF YOU have never heard local singer, Josi, belt out one of her original tracks, picture Adele’s emotion and pitch mixed in with the sultry, jazzy...
Bush tea and bush medicine
--Our ancient heritage
THROUGH the traumas of slavery and colonisation, much has fallen away from the memory of the ages that once maintained the normalcy before them.
Attempts to rewrite a false...
‘One Voice’ can make a difference
--says Joelly Valentine
TWENTY-three-year-old Joelly Valentine knows she’s just one person, but she hopes that she can use her voice to inspire others, and in her goosebumps-inducing performance...
Buzzing this weekend
IT’S time to weekend again people! And you can get the ball rolling from tonight, with quite a few happenings around town!
It’s all about that hookah-and-corona vibe over by the Tower Suites...
--in botched Republic Bank heist
FOUR persons are expected to be charged this week for the recent attempted robbery on
Republic Bank’s Water Street branch which left one of the would-be...
Husband, wife, daughter, others busted with marijuana
SIX persons found with seven-and-a-half-kilograms of cannabis have been arrested following a police operation in New Amsterdam, Berbice, on Saturday morning.
Those in custody include a husband,...
Cocaine swallower gets four years, fined $5M
A 35-YEAR-OLD man was on Friday sentenced to four years jail after pleading guilty to the charge of drug possession by Magistrate Leron Daly.
It is alleged that on July 3, 2017 at the Woodlands...
Jail for burglar
TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD farmers, Leon Waddle, was on Friday sentenced to 18 months in imprisonment by City Magistrate Sunil Scarce on a break and enter and larceny charge committed on the store room of...
…President reiterates persons' hiring based on merit
PRESIDENT David Granger has debunked accusations of him attempting to militarise Guyana and noted that persons are hired based on competences...
Cap on CSEC must be guided by research
…Ed Caesar urges broad consultations
CHAIRMAN of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the education sector and former Chief Educational Officer (CEO), Ed Caesar says any policy for the...
President says no to overseas GECOM chair
THE suggestion by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo that there be a foreigner appointed as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has been deemed unnecessary by President David...
Alexander leaving Min. of Education
…to join Roopnaraine at Public Service
TECHNICAL Facilitator/Advisor to the Minister of Education, Vincent Alexander, is considering a request by newly appointed Minister of the Public Service, Dr...
Cuban ambassador decries Trump’s roll back of Obama policy
CUBAN Ambassador to Guyana, Julio Cesar Gonzalez Marchante, described US President Donald Trump recent speech and directive as ill-advised, resulting in the roll-back of progress achieved over the...
US pledges support for regional energy reforms
THE United States will be looking to play a more active role in supporting the energy sector in the Caribbean by providing targeted technical support to countries with the capacity and interest in...
Caribbean looks to creative arts to transform regional economy
THE ECONOMIC potential of the creative arts industry in the Caribbean remains one which can transform regional economies which have been stagnant, Culture Minister of Barbados, Stephen Lashley, has...
CAL cancels flights over storm warning
Caribbean Airlines (CAL) have cancelled a number of flights on Monday due to several Caribbean countries being placed under a tropical storm warning.
A release from the air carrier stated: “Due to...
- Russia has warned the US-led coalition fighting in Syria that it will view its aircraft as targets, after a Syrian military plane was shot down.
The coalition said it had shot down the Syrian...
Theresa May condemns ‘sickening’ terror attack
- Prime Minister Theresa May says the terror attack near a north London mosque is "every bit as sickening" as other recent ones to hit the UK.
A man drove a van into worshippers close to the...
Trump-Russia inquiry: President ‘probed for obstruction of justice’
- President Donald Trump is being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller for possible obstruction of justice, US media reports say.
They say senior intelligence officials will be...
London fire: Prime minister orders full public inquiry
- Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered a full public inquiry into the fire that engulfed a west London block of flats, killing at least 17 people.
That figure is expected to rise, as fire chiefs...
Feed the Flames’ Josi to launch solo album
IF YOU have never heard local singer, Josi, belt out one of her original tracks, picture Adele’s emotion and pitch mixed in with the sultry, jazzy...
Bush tea and bush medicine
--Our ancient heritage
THROUGH the traumas of slavery and colonisation, much has fallen away from the memory of the ages that once maintained the normalcy before them.
Attempts to rewrite a false...
‘One Voice’ can make a difference
--says Joelly Valentine
TWENTY-three-year-old Joelly Valentine knows she’s just one person, but she hopes that she can use her voice to inspire others, and in her goosebumps-inducing performance...
Buzzing this weekend
IT’S time to weekend again people! And you can get the ball rolling from tonight, with quite a few happenings around town!
It’s all about that hookah-and-corona vibe over by the Tower Suites...
--in botched Republic Bank heist
FOUR persons are expected to be charged this week for the recent attempted robbery on
Republic Bank’s Water Street branch which left one of the would-be...
Husband, wife, daughter, others busted with marijuana
SIX persons found with seven-and-a-half-kilograms of cannabis have been arrested following a police operation in New Amsterdam, Berbice, on Saturday morning.
Those in custody include a husband,...
Cocaine swallower gets four years, fined $5M
A 35-YEAR-OLD man was on Friday sentenced to four years jail after pleading guilty to the charge of drug possession by Magistrate Leron Daly.
It is alleged that on July 3, 2017 at the Woodlands...
Jail for burglar
TWENTY-THREE-YEAR-OLD farmers, Leon Waddle, was on Friday sentenced to 18 months in imprisonment by City Magistrate Sunil Scarce on a break and enter and larceny charge committed on the store room of...
…President reiterates persons' hiring based on merit
PRESIDENT David Granger has debunked accusations of him attempting to militarise Guyana and noted that persons are hired based on competences...
Cap on CSEC must be guided by research
…Ed Caesar urges broad consultations
CHAIRMAN of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into the education sector and former Chief Educational Officer (CEO), Ed Caesar says any policy for the...
President says no to overseas GECOM chair
THE suggestion by Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo that there be a foreigner appointed as Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has been deemed unnecessary by President David...
Alexander leaving Min. of Education
…to join Roopnaraine at Public Service
TECHNICAL Facilitator/Advisor to the Minister of Education, Vincent Alexander, is considering a request by newly appointed Minister of the Public Service, Dr...
Cuban ambassador decries Trump’s roll back of Obama policy
CUBAN Ambassador to Guyana, Julio Cesar Gonzalez Marchante, described US President Donald Trump recent speech and directive as ill-advised, resulting in the roll-back of progress achieved over the...
US pledges support for regional energy reforms
THE United States will be looking to play a more active role in supporting the energy sector in the Caribbean by providing targeted technical support to countries with the capacity and interest in...
Caribbean looks to creative arts to transform regional economy
THE ECONOMIC potential of the creative arts industry in the Caribbean remains one which can transform regional economies which have been stagnant, Culture Minister of Barbados, Stephen Lashley, has...
CAL cancels flights over storm warning
Caribbean Airlines (CAL) have cancelled a number of flights on Monday due to several Caribbean countries being placed under a tropical storm warning.
A release from the air carrier stated: “Due to...
- Russia has warned the US-led coalition fighting in Syria that it will view its aircraft as targets, after a Syrian military plane was shot down.
The coalition said it had shot down the Syrian...
Theresa May condemns ‘sickening’ terror attack
- Prime Minister Theresa May says the terror attack near a north London mosque is "every bit as sickening" as other recent ones to hit the UK.
A man drove a van into worshippers close to the...
Trump-Russia inquiry: President ‘probed for obstruction of justice’
- President Donald Trump is being investigated by special counsel Robert Mueller for possible obstruction of justice, US media reports say.
They say senior intelligence officials will be...
London fire: Prime minister orders full public inquiry
- Prime Minister Theresa May has ordered a full public inquiry into the fire that engulfed a west London block of flats, killing at least 17 people.
That figure is expected to rise, as fire chiefs...
