Cabinet approves more contracts PRESIDENTIAL Adviser on Governance, Ms. Gail Teixeira, performing the duties of Head of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS), announced, on Wednesday, that Cabinet, at its January

PRESIDENTIAL Advisor on Governance, Ms. Gail Teixeira said, Wednesday, that the incompetence of the Mayor of Georgetown, Mr. Hamilton Green and the Municipality to deliver basic services to the

JUSTICE Brassington Reynolds, in the Berbice High Court, on Wednesday, granted Audrey Cummings $300,000 bail on a drug trafficking charge. The defendant, who was previously denied pre-trial liberty, was

Sentence postponed on murder accused convicted of manslaughter THIRTY-FOUR-YEAR-OLD Wazim Bux, originally indicted with the murder of Ahmad Rasack alias ‘Deaf man’, pleaded guilty to the lesser count of

A MIXED jury has been sworn, before Justice Brassington Reynolds, for the trial at the Berbice Assizes of Shawn Tyndall called Arthur or Asha, of Manchester, Corentyne, who is

FOUR armed bandits robbed Fung Fook Supermarket, at Lot 6 Vryheid, West Canje, Berbice, of cash and jewellery on Monday. Police confronted them but the gang discharged several rounds

Stalled murder trials to resume MondayTHE two murder trials stalled after at the opening of the January criminal sessions of the Demerara Assizes, because two of the three accused

THE Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) said on Wednesday around 16:00 hrs, there was a total shutdown of the Demerara interconnected system as a result of damage to

Guyana among affected destinations…REDjet to cut 54 flights from schedule FLIGHTS to Guyana, Trinidad, Jamaica and Barbados are among 54 that would be affected when low-fares airline REDjet cuts

U.S. State Department maximising use of social mediaLOCAL journalists and Internet bloggers had the unique opportunity on Tuesday of joining their counterparts worldwide, in a live United States (U.S.)