January 9, 2013
THE Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, yesterday, presented a $17M cheque to Secretary of the Guyana Prize for Literature Management Committee, Mr. Al Creighton, as a contribution to
January 9, 2013
GUYANA’S political Opposition continues to stall the amendment of the Firearms Amendment Act which will give law enforcement officers greater power to fight firearm trafficking. The AFC/APNU coalition has
January 9, 2013
THE Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS), yesterday, presented certificates to seven of eight participants who successfully completed the Lead Auditors’Course. They were certified, at the ceremony in GNBS
January 9, 2013
CHIEF Fire Officer Marlon Gentle confirmed yesterday that the blaze at the Mashramani Secretariat building, in Middle Street, Georgetown, on Monday, was electrical in origin. In a telephone interview,
January 9, 2013
FIFTY-YEAR-OLD Conrad Wright, of Lot 13 Friendship, East Bank Demerara, had a fraud charge against him dismissed yesterday, after the virtual complainant said he has been compensated. Before Magistrate
January 9, 2013
A MAN charged with simple larceny has been sent for psychiatric observation at the request of his mother. The defendant, Perry Barry, 42, of Lot 48 Hadfield Street, Georgetown,
January 9, 2013
DEXTER Grant (no address given) has been charged with unlawfully assaulting his father, Emanuel Grant. The defendant appeared before Magistrate Leron Daley yesterday and pleaded not guilty to the
January 9, 2013
THE Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company Incorporated (GT&T) has committed $750,000., representing a gold sponsor, towards the rebuilding of the St. Joseph Mercy Hospital. The contribution is being made
June 8, 2009
Georgetown, GINA, June 6, 2009 Sixty youths are engaged in a three-day training workshop hosted by the Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, geared at preparing them for leadership
June 8, 2009
THE Guyana Energy Agency (GEA) yesterday launched a campaign and released four new brochures in an effort to promote energy saving and awareness. Prime Minister Samuel Hinds said he
June 8, 2009
Two things can be said straightaway about this subject. Firstly, spectacular success has been achieved since 1992. Secondly, a great deal remains to be done. After the Guyana Bar
June 8, 2009
TWENTY-seven-year old Guyanese lawyer, Ms. Kelly-Ann Michala Payne, who had been practicing in Barbados and the British Virgin Islands since her graduation in September last year was yesterday admitted
June 8, 2009
. . . some plant workers retained, others retrenched The Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) has commissioned a new, modernised and fully automated bottling plant at its Diamond headquarters site
June 8, 2009
Legendary Guyanese calypsonian and cultural icon, Monica Cecilia Chopperfield, M.S., also called “Lady Guymine”, was on Friday given a hero’s farewell during a thanksgiving service at the National Cultural
June 8, 2009
MINISTER of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony, said recently that Cabinet has already set aside the necessary funds to have over 30 books by Guyanese writers reprinted
June 8, 2009
HOUSTON, USA (Reuters) — Lawyers for Allen Stanford, the Texas financier charged with an US$8.5 billion fraud by US regulators, on Friday characterized a US$20 million fee request by
June 8, 2009
MIAMI, USA (IAPA/IFEX) — The Global Coordinating Committee of Press Freedom Organizations, from its semi-annual meeting in Paris, held a thorough discussion on the lack of freedom of the
June 8, 2009
– investment possibilities in area discussed Georgetown, GINA, June 6, 2009 President Bharrat Jagdeo on June 5 met with a team of Lethem businessmen to discuss issues relating to