January 25, 2013
AN emergency medical team, including two members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Medical Corps and nine medical personnel from the Ministry of Health, was deployed early yesterday morning
January 25, 2013
WELL known city resident, Imitaz Roopnarine, 47, called “Bobby”, was killed at about 05:00hrs yesterday when three men on two motor cycles shot him as he and a woman
January 25, 2013
A Board of Inquiry into the death of Guyana Defence Force soldier, Lance Corporal Eon Blair has been established to determine the circumstances under which he died. CHIEF-OF-STAFF, Commodore
January 25, 2013
WHILE many persons within City Hall have expressed some degree of hopefulness in Ms. Patricia Chase-Greene being elected as Deputy Mayor, quite a few councillors have signalled their intention
January 25, 2013
FIVE men are in police custody after a quantity of cannabis sativa (marijuana) was found in the car they were in at a police roadblock on Wednesday. Police reported
January 25, 2013
GOVERNMENT is set to table the Justice Sector (Amendment) Bill at its sitting today of the National Assembly. This piece of intended legislation, seeks to allow for appeals of
January 25, 2013
GUYANA was the first country to be reviewed at the 62nd Session of the Committee on the Rights of the Child (ROC) at the Office of the High Commission
January 25, 2013
HEAD of the Presidential Secretariat (HPS), Dr. Roger Luncheon, at his post-Cabinet press briefing at the Office of the President Wednesday, announced the appointment of Victor Chan as the
July 8, 2009
The National Zoological Park will be holding zoo camps for children between the ages of six and 12 from July 13 next and applications are invited. The camps are
July 8, 2009
The Forestry Training Centre Incorporated (FTCI) and the Iwokrama Centre for Rainforest Conservation and Development, in collaboration with Tropenbos International and the European Commission, will be hosting a Regional
July 8, 2009
Conflict between companies that profit from forests and local people who depend on them could be tackled by industry-led approaches, but too few companies use them, says a report
July 8, 2009
“Let the people decide! There is already a shortage of quality leadership. Why impose artificial limits.” ST. VINCENT and the Grenadines Prime Minister Ralph Gonsalves feels restrictions on the
July 8, 2009
Jackson’s public memorial strikes a spiritual note * * “I just want to say ever since I was born, Daddy has been the best father you can ever imagine.
July 8, 2009
Now that the HINI virus is in Guyana, the Ministry of Health is tasked with ensuring the disease’s containment. According to the Chief Medical Officer (CMO), Dr Shamdeo Persaud,
July 8, 2009
A BOAT accident in Moruka River, North West District, has left one person dead and another critically injured. The deceased is 11-year-old Leon Edwards, whose 17-year-old brother, Ralph Edwards,
July 8, 2009
TWENTY-FIVE-YEAR-OLD taxi driver Levi Seecharran, of Lot 16 Ruimzeight Gardens, West Coast Demerara, died on the spot yesterday when two vehicles collided at Versailles, West Bank Demerara. Seecharran’s crushed
July 8, 2009
Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) Director Mr. Tarchand Balgobin yesterday said some contractors are their own enemies as often they bid for work beyond their competence. GWI Director Tarchand Balgobin
July 8, 2009
Introducing new legislation for stiffer penalties The Ministry of Home Affairs has expressed concern about the recent spate of wanton destruction of public property such as traffic lights, bridges,