March 11, 2013
FINANCE Minister, Dr. Ashni Singh has described an article carried in yesterday’s Stabroek News as a deliberate attempt to mislead the public on the matter of the ongoing budget
March 11, 2013
PRO-Chancellor of the University of Guyana (UG), Dr. Prem Misir, has said that the most important criterion for consideration in increasing the tuition fees of the university is whether
March 11, 2013
WINNERS of the various Mashramani 2013 competitions that were staged under the theme ‘Reflecting Creativity, Embracing Diversity’ received their prizes at a ceremony at the Umana Yana on Friday.
March 11, 2013
THE Women’s Progressive Organisation, (WPO), women’s arm of the People’s Progressive Party (PPP), has strongly condemned the verbal abuse of Dr. Vishalie Sharma, Medical Superintendent of the New Amsterdam
March 11, 2013
FOUR persons are in police custody following a cannabis sativa (marijuana) bust on Saturday morning in the city. Police reported that during cordon and search operations in Norton Street,
March 11, 2013
SHOULD all go well, residents of the West Bank Demerara villages of Nismes, Bagotville (on the public road), La Grange, La Retraite and Toevlugt are on stream to receive
March 11, 2013
NICOLA Bridgelall of Number 71 Village Corentyne, Berbice died instantly on Friday on the Number 68 Village public road when the Tapir in which she was a passenger collided
March 11, 2013
POLICE reported that on Friday between 01:00hr and 04:00 hrs a Brazilian miner was fatally shot when several men with firearms boarded a mining dredge in the Essequibo River
October 1, 2009
THE judicial system was strengthened yesterday when two new magistrates were sworn. ‘TWO NEW MAGISTRATES’: Ms. Adela Nagamootoo (left) and Ms. Omeyana Hamilton at the swearing-in ceremony yesterday. Twenty-six-year-old
October 1, 2009
A REFORESTATION project in Region Eight (Potaro/Siparuni), intended to serve as a model for transforming land made barren by mining back into green foliage and vegetation, is proceeding apace..
October 1, 2009
THE Ministry of Education has introduced a School Health, Nutrition and HIV/AIDS policy, which is to be implemented countrywide. Minister of Education, Mr. Shaik Baksh made the announcement yesterday
October 1, 2009
JUSTICE Roxanne George yesterday handed down a judgment stating that the claim for damages by Mohamed Fazloor Yasin against the Guyana Lottery Company Ltd., for allegedly dismissing him on
September 30, 2009
RICHARD Narine, 26, of Lot 71 West Ruimveldt, Georgetown, was yesterday fined $25,000 with the alternative of six months imprisonment, after being convicted as a ‘trunker’ (one who steals
September 30, 2009
THE owner of White Castle Fish Shop, at Lot 21 John and Hadfield Streets, Werk-en-Rust, Jermaine Langevine, 31, is the latest person to be charged following the shooting and
September 30, 2009
DESMOND De Nobrega, 44, was yesterday remanded to prison on a charge of attempting to murder his nephew, Rickey Kissoon. Before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson, De Nobrega (no
September 30, 2009
“I never entertained the thought of migration, because I have always been a patriot and have always been for national development.” These are the words of Deputy Chief Education
September 30, 2009
COLONEL, General Staff and second-in-command of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Colonel Bruce Lovell has said the erosion of discipline has resulted in unethical acts uncharacteristic of the Joint
September 30, 2009
HOME Affairs Minister Clement Rohee, on Sunday night, exhorted members of the Covent Garden Community Policing Group (CPG), on East Bank Demerara, to relate all information on criminal activities