CHIEF Fire Officer Marlon Gentle confirmed yesterday that the blaze at the Mashramani Secretariat building, in Middle Street, Georgetown, on Monday, was electrical in origin. In a telephone interview,

FIFTY-YEAR-OLD Conrad Wright, of Lot 13 Friendship, East Bank Demerara, had a fraud charge against him dismissed yesterday, after the virtual complainant said he has been compensated. Before Magistrate

A MAN charged with simple larceny has been sent for psychiatric observation at the request of his mother. The defendant, Perry Barry, 42, of Lot 48 Hadfield Street, Georgetown,

DEXTER Grant (no address given) has been charged with unlawfully assaulting his father, Emanuel Grant. The defendant appeared before Magistrate Leron Daley yesterday and pleaded not guilty to the

THE Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company Incorporated (GT&T) has committed $750,000., representing a gold sponsor, towards the rebuilding of the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. The contribution is being made

LOW and middle-income house lot owners as well as vulnerable categories have been taking advantage of the agreement between the Ministry of Housing and Water’s Central Housing and Planning

A PRESS RELEASE yesterday from the Transport and Harbours Department told of the MV Lady Northcote running into rough weather on its Port Georgetown to the North West District

GENERAL Secretary of Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), Mr. Seepaul Narine said it is calling for an investigation into what he described as the “dismal production” of

HABITAT for Humanity Guyana (HfHG) Inc. continues its efforts to provide adequate shelter for low-income families through its Buy-a-Block 2012 initiative, whereby the organisation constructed a home for former

TORONTO-based International Muslim Organization (IMO), has donated close to three-quarters of a million Guyana dollars towards the surgical operation required to remove the brain tumor in eight-year-old Fazeela Shaffee.