THE Ministry of Tourism, Industry and Commerce has allocated $172 million for the Small Business Bureau (SBB) to provide grants and loans for the development of small businesses. A

FAMILY and friends of John Alexander Yhap, a fisherman and father of two who was stabbed to death on September 14, 2020, staged a protest outside the Albion Magistrate’s

A MID-MORNING robbery at a Super 95 GuyOil sub-station in New Amsterdam left an employee hospitalised from a gunshot in the back. An undisclosed amount of cash was also stolen.

The world was already off track to meet the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 and the COVID-19 pandemic has made it even harder both to achieve the goals and to monitor

PRIME Minister Brigadier (ret’d) Mark Phillips, has said that $1.8 billion has been budgeted to provide hampers to households across the country affected by the COVID-19 pandemic and a

– then sought millions more under SLED programme for barbershop venture DOCUMENTS detailing the transaction between former Director of Sport, Christopher Jones and the Ministry of Social Protection, have

CORRIVERTON Primary School, East Berbice Corentyne, has a lot to celebrate. The school has produced three pupils who are among the top 10 in the region. Headmistress of the School,

BANDITS attempted to rob the Scotia Bank ATM in the Courtyard Mall, Robb Street, Georgetown, in the wee hours of Sunday morning but were not as successful as their

By Nafeeza Yahya-Sakur FIVE of Region Five (East Berbice-Corentyne)’s top 10 performers at the recently-concluded National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) are aspiring doctors, with the others having their sights

IN sending well wishes to the scores of children who recently completed their primary education, and did so successfully, Minister of Agriculture Zulfikar Mustapha has urged that they consider