January 11, 2013
THE National Assembly yesterday approved the supplementary provision of $500M, under Financial Paper No. 6 of 2012, to meet the expenditure associated with flood management and water control.Some members
January 11, 2013
THE Local Authorities (Elections) (Amendment) Bill 2013, Bill No. 3 of 2013 was yesterday tabled in the National Assembly seeking to extend the date on which Local Government Elections
January 11, 2013
GOVERNMENT yesterday again deferred the second readings of the Telecommunications Bill and the Public Utilities Commission (Amendment) Bill in the National Assembly, in light of the fact that engagements
January 11, 2013
THE opposition camp was again slapped with further embarrassment when Opposition Leader and Leader of A Partnership for National Unity, David Granger, was unable to explain why he made
January 11, 2013
FOLLOWING the looting and stoning of the store, Sino Mall, by a mob led by political activist, Mark Benschop on Wednesday, the police say they are processing the statements
January 10, 2013
THE Security Sector Reform Plan has been welcomed by numerous stakeholders as one that is sorely needed if there are to be positive results with regard to the nation’s
January 10, 2013
THE Health Ministry will be joining the rest of world to observe Cervical Cancer Awareness Month, planned activities for which will be held during January.Some of the activities the
January 10, 2013
WORK is advancing rapidly on the first five-star and Guyana’s premier hotel in Kingston, in the capital, that will have close to 200 rooms within a nine-story edifice. The
June 3, 2009
DIRECTOR/SECRETARY of Linden Legal Aid Centre, Ms. Joan Ward-Mars yesterday issued an appeal for public support to the four children of jailed manslaughter convict Kurt Wong. He was sentenced
June 3, 2009
THE June criminal sessions of the Demerara Assizes, with 145 cases for trial, opened with the traditional pomp and ceremony yesterday. The ceremonial parade took place in South Road,
June 3, 2009
Stakeholders told… AGRICULTURE Minister Robert Persaud yesterday announced that Guyana will soon benefit from US$85,000, through United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), to develop and implement a hydro-chlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs) phase-out
June 3, 2009
ANOTHER day search yesterday failed to locate the three men and a teenager who have been reported missing since leaving on a fishing trip last May 26. Michael’s sister-in-law,
June 3, 2009
GUYANA is among four countries to benefit from financial support from the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB), to help overcome the effects of the global economic crisis. The others are
June 3, 2009
– with murder of guard at Uncle Eddie’s POLICE have charged two men with the murder, last week, of security guard Simone Coleridge, who was killed during a robbery
June 3, 2009
Two still missing TWO of the four fishermen reported missing by family members last Thursday were yesterday found in the Atlantic in the vicinity of the Pomeroon River by
June 3, 2009
– Lethem Development Plan to be reviewed – $200M to be spent on construction of roads, drains, structures and pure water distribution network in Tabatinga – more than 2,000
June 3, 2009
CHAIRMAN of the Anti-Piracy Committee, Mr. Leonard Jettoo, has reported that his fishing crew was robbed by four masked and armed bandits off Melanie Damishana foreshore, on East Coast
June 3, 2009
Mrs. Chandrawattie Sitaram, a resident of Best Village, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Bank Demerara, is calling on those in authority to give her justice, after a cow owned by a resident