January 26, 2015
President Donald Ramotar has been endorsed as the presidential candidate on the PPP/C leadership ticket. As is usual, the Prime Ministerial candidate, still to be decided, will be taken
January 26, 2015
The Ministry of Education, cognisant of the concerns regarding the sitting of CAPE and CSEC exams on May 11 – Election Day – today announced that exams on that
January 25, 2015
GUYANA is experiencing the rise of an emerging economy, and has recovered from the CLICO debacle which caused the insurance sector in the Caribbean region to contract.This sentiment was
January 25, 2015
THE Public Works Ministry exceeded its target for sea and river defence works last year.Coordinator of the Works Services Group of that ministry, Mr. Geoffrey Vaughn, recently reported that the targets
January 25, 2015
A CELEBRATORY ambience descended on the town of Anna Regina, and joy and happiness was all pervasive as children of nursery, primary and secondary schools hotly competed in the
January 25, 2015
THE Maritime Administration Department (MARAD) has reported a 46 percent reduction in fatalities from accidents on the waterways last year, as compared to figures for 2013.Director General of the Maritime
January 25, 2015
SENIOR police officers within the ‘A’ Division command were on Saturday part of a developmental workshop which was organised by its commander, Assistant Commissioner of Police, Clifton Hicken.The event
January 25, 2015
COMMANDER of the Police ‘A’ Division, Assistant Commissioner of Police Clifton Hicken and his administrative team met with the operators of cars and buses who occupy parking spaces in
June 15, 2012
HOUSTON (AP) — Former jet-setting Texas tycoon R. Allen Stanford, whose financial empire once spanned the Americas, was sentenced yesterday to 110 years in prison for bilking investors out
June 15, 2012
– on his 3rd death anniversaryTODAY marks the third death anniversary of Shri Prakash Gossai, who had once said that his “gift of music is a blessing from God”,
June 15, 2012
Jury to visit scene of the crime on MondayTHE prosecutor in the Kwasi Wilson murder trial, with only one witness to call in the case against accused Eon Williams
June 15, 2012
…relatives unhappy with manner in which owner is treating the matterONE week after the ill-fated motor vessel, ‘Miss Ellisa’, capsized in the Demerara River channel, opposite Muneshwar’s wharf, there
June 15, 2012
A FOURTEEN-YEAR-OLD lad, from Rose Hall, Corentyne, caught with one gramme of cannabis (marijuana), was fined $6,000 on Wednesday. In addition, Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo, before whom he appeared at
June 15, 2012
JUSTICE James Bovell-Drakes has granted $300,000 bail to Paul Murray, whose mother, Denise Farley, petitioned the High Court on Wednesday, for his pre-trial freedom, pending an appeal hearing. Murray
June 15, 2012
ANOTHER cocaine user was sentenced to one year imprisonment, by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo, at New Amsterdam Court on Wednesday. Jeffers (only name stated) pleaded guilty to having an improvised
June 15, 2012
TWO youths, who are alleged to have killed a third, following a misunderstanding at the ‘Dusk ‘til Dawn’ nightclub, last June 3, were remanded to prison when they appeared
June 15, 2012
TERRY Joseph (no address given), who confessed to stealing wet clothes from a laundry line belonging to Neesha Khan, was fined $40,000 with an alternative of six months imprisonment
June 15, 2012
FIFTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD Kenneth Bissondyal, having been remanded to prison for seven days after he pleaded guilty to assaulting his wife of thirty years, Kuntie Gopaul, was reprimanded and discharged when