December 8, 2012
PRESIDENTIAL Advisor on Governance, Ms Gail Teixeira, has challenged the credibility of Transparency International’s (TI) latest Corruption Perception Index (CPI) report, which has ranked Guyana at 133 amongst 174
December 8, 2012
SHORTLY after a mixed jury at the Demerara Assizes had found Dwayne Jordan guilty of axing his reputed wife Claudeene Rampersaud to death yesterday, defence counsel Mr. Nigel Hughes
December 8, 2012
(Trinidad Express) A six-month-old mango forgotten in a refrigerator was the first thing environmental activist Dr Wayne Kublalsingh ate as he broke his 21-day-long hunger strike late on Wednesday
December 8, 2012
CANADIAN oil and gas exploration company, CGX, yesterday announced that the board of directors has appointed Dr. Suresh Narine as Executive Chairman of CGX. Dr. Narine, a Guyana-born Canadian
December 8, 2012
JAN Carew, the internationally known Guyanese author of novels like Black Midas and Ghosts in Our Blood, passed away at his home in Louisville, Kentucky, USA on Thursday. He
December 8, 2012
A SEARCH is continuing for 79-year-old Vibert Wilfred Solomon also called ‘Stove Man’, of Lot 11 Cemetery Road, Triumph Village, East Coast Demerara, who has been reported missing from
December 8, 2012
SIX-YEAR-OLD Joshua Perreira (no address stated) underwent emergency surgery at Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) on Wednesday, after being struck by a Jerrick’s Funeral Parlour hearse transporting a corpse. His
December 8, 2012
MINISTER of Culture Youth and Sport, Dr. Frank Anthony took time off from his busy schedule to mingle with students of the New Opportunity Corps (NOC) at Onderneeming, Essequibo
February 26, 2009
THE Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into an attempted murder charge against former New Amsterdam Mayor Errol Alphonso resumed before Magistrate Geeta Chandan Edmond Persid on Tuesday. Two Police witnesses, Detective
February 26, 2009
SEVENTEEN-year-old Jason Williams, a student of New Amsterdam Technical Institute (NATI) in Berbice, has been charged with assault. Before Magistrate Geeta Chandan Edmond Persid, in New Amsterdam Court on
February 26, 2009
DANYANTIE Ghanpat, 26, of Smythfield, New Amsterdam, convicted of illegal drug possession two Wednesdays ago, was last week sentenced to a total of eight years imprisonment by Magistrate Geeta
February 26, 2009
A FORTY-nine-year-old man, who exposed his penis to his 20-year-old married neighbour, was sentenced to nine months imprisonment, by Magistrate Geeta Chandan Edmond Persid on Tuesday. The sentence was
February 26, 2009
CONRAD Henry – dubbed the ‘Best Road Predator’ – appeared last Tuesday at Leonora Magistrate’s Court and was sentenced to four years imprisonment after he admitted robbing two residents
February 26, 2009
A MOTHER of seven and her 11-year-old son appeared before Magistrate Geeta Chandan Edmond Persid on Tuesday, charged jointly with buggering a lad, 12. Denise Fawcett, 33, of Sheet
February 26, 2009
Six persons are homeless after fire of unknown origin last Saturday night destroyed their wooden home at Grant Unity in the lower Pomeroon River. Ms Vilene Mc Cloud and
February 26, 2009
— group tells UNAIDS headTHE Condom Advocacy Working Group has responded to a global statement by Michel Sidibé, Executive Director of UNAIDS, by urging him to play a leadership
February 26, 2009
RANKS of the Joint Services were, up to late yesterday, still combing Arimu Backdam and the Cuyuni environs for the fourth member of a gang suspected in the recent
February 26, 2009
President Bharrat Jagdeo shares a light moment at the Conference with Co-President of the ACP-EU Joint Parliamentary Assembly, Mrs.Glenys Kinnock. THE third Regional Meeting of the African, Caribbean and