November 20, 2013
CANADIAN High Commissioner to Guyana, Dr. Nicole Giles has disclosed that the Government of Canada will be contributing CAN$20M towards strengthening distance education in the Caribbean.She made this disclosure
November 20, 2013
OVER 540 students from Regions 8 (Potaro/Siparuni), 9 (Upper Takutu/Upper Essequibo) and 10 (Upper Demerara/ Upper Berbice) stand to benefit from a US$25,000 five year Memorandum of Understanding (MoU)
November 20, 2013
CABINET on Tuesday approved a request by the Ministry of Local Government and Regional Development to create District Tender Boards (DTB) in the country’s ten administrative regions, Secretary to
November 20, 2013
THE health and wellness fair, being hosted by the University of Guyana Students Society (UGSS) in collaboration with the Ministry of Health, is continuing through tomorrow in the UG
November 20, 2013
GUYANA Water Inc. (GWI) yesterday announced their countrywide disconnection activities that are aimed at collecting outstanding water service charges.Customer Services Manager Jeanette Thomas said in a press release that
November 20, 2013
SHOP owner Lebert Thomas of Melanie Damishana Public Road, East Coast of Demerara, is a patient of the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing multiple stab wounds he received at the
November 20, 2013
SECRETARY to the Cabinet, Dr. Roger Luncheon yesterday confirmed that Prime Minister Samuel Hinds is currently performing the duties of both President and Home Affairs Minister. Luncheon was addressing his
November 20, 2013
THE Development of Land Use Planning Project [DLUPP] has come to a promising close. It was executed by the Guyana Lands and Surveys Commission with financial support from the
October 31, 2010
-shoots one deadAN INTREPID businessman shot dead one of two assailants during an attempted robbery Friday night, though he himself was injured during the exchange of gunfire with the
October 31, 2010
-condition listed as stableCORENTYNE businessman and President of the Guyana Rice Producers Association (RPA), Mr. Leekha Rambridge, was reportedly shot yesterday in the region of the chest and upper
October 31, 2010
-sees commitments to Norway fundsTHE RECENTLY-concluded National Toshaos Council (NTC) Meeting will be remembered for being the forum at which the mechanism for accessing monies that could alter Guyana’s
October 31, 2010
THERE are many positives that came out of the fourth conference of the National Toshaos Council (NTC) at the International Convention Centre, Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara last week. Most
October 30, 2010
CELLOS Griffith, 44, of Lot 242 West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, has been charged with damaging property. He appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton yesterday and pleaded not guilty to the offence,
October 30, 2010
ERROL King (no address given) was yesterday remanded to prison, by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, on a charge of unlawful possession of a firearm. He pleaded not guilty to the
October 30, 2010
SHIRLANDER Persaud, 33, who claims he uses narcotics to treat his chest cold, was jailed on Thursday for being in possession of cannabis (marijuana) and cocaine.Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo imposed
October 30, 2010
FORTY-YEAR-OLD Bevis George has been charged with attempting to murder his Police lock-ups cell mate, Mahadeo Gopie.The accused appeared before Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo at New Amsterdam Court, in Berbice,
October 30, 2010
CONVICTED wife beater Outar Shivpersaud was sentenced to six months imprisonment, on Wednesday, after he pleaded guilty to assault causing actual bodily harm at Reliance Court in Canje, Berbice.
October 30, 2010
– environmental conditions favourable for tropical storm in GuyanaA weather watch warning was issued early yesterday by the Hydrometeorological Service’s National Weather Watch Centre of an approaching tropical storm