Svetlana Marshall
DEMTOCO, Public Health Ministry to meet on tobacco regulations
DEMERARA Tobacco Company Limited (DEMTOCO) – a subsidiary of British American Tobacco Group – has secured a meeting with the Public Health Ministry on...
DEMTOCO profits pegged at $1.4B
- company says not against tobacco regulations
THE Demerara Tobacco (DEMTOCO) recorded a profit before tax of GYD$2.5B in 2017 – a decline of 9.5...
‘Things looking up’
Circuitville residents working to develop squatting community
FOR MANY years the residents of ‘Circuitville’ – a squatting community situated on the Linden-Soesdyke Highway – have...
A cowardly act
…gov’t pours cold water on PPP private charges
…warns that more court actions coming against former ministers
THE People’s Progressive Party (PPP) in an unprecedented...
Conservancy workers threaten strike over retro payments
WORKERS of the East Demerara Water Conversancy (EDWC) picketed the Agriculture Ministry as their union, the General Workers’ Union (GWU), called for the Ministry...
Army officers testify …before Lindo Creek CoI
SENIOR military officers who were on the ground pursuing one of the country’s most notorious gangs between Kwakwani and Christmas Falls in the Upper...
Power company, UG sign partnership pact
…pledges $1.5M annually to assist engineering students
THE University of Guyana (UG) and the Power Producers and Distributors Incorporated (PPDI) have formalised years of...
More than just a Beauty Queen
- Miss Bartica Regatta 2018, Arian Richmond
ARIAN Dahlia Richmond is not your typical teenage beauty queen – she is a young woman on a...
Farming up Kuru Kururu
Gladwin Thomas is changing the game
AS THE global demand for coconut products such as coconut water and virgin coconut oil increases, a 33-year-old farmer...
Journalists sharpen skills for parliamentary reporting
REPORTERS from private and public news agencies are currently engaged in an intensive training seminar on parliamentary reporting at the Public Buildings.
The two-day forum,...