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January 29, 2022
WITH Joseph Harmon resigning as Opposition Leader, last Wednesday, just before Budget 2022 was presented, the political opposition in the National Assembly is pressed to elect a new leader
January 29, 2022
THE Guyana Oil and Gas Energy Chamber (GOGEC) has described the 2022 National Budget which was presented to the National Assembly on Wednesday, as one of the most “compelling”
January 29, 2022
THE Ministry of Health on Friday received vehicles and medical equipment to the tune of USD$116,000 from the United States Embassy under the Department of Defense Overseas Humanitarian, Disaster,
January 29, 2022
FIFTY-SEVEN recruits are currently undergoing training on the Basic Recruit Course (BRC) 2021-03, which commenced recently at the Colonel John Clarke Military School, Tacama. The course is in its
January 29, 2022
THE Department of Public Affairs has finalised modalities for the establishment of the Guyana Media and Communications Academy in partnership with Coursera. The academy was conceptualised as a needed
January 29, 2022
DIAGNOSED with a rare brain tumour, six-year-old Aden Persaud of Blairmont, Region Five (Mahaica-Berbice), got the medical visa he needs to travel to the United States for treatment, approved
January 29, 2022
MAGISTRATE Leron Daly, on Friday, released a 20-year-old man on $200,000 bail after he denied forging a driver’s licence and uttering it to a traffic rank when he was
January 29, 2022
MAGISTRATE Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus, on Friday, remanded four women to prison for allegedly attempting to murder their former best friend by dosing her with a corrosive liquid. Jennifer Validen, a
April 8, 2021
A TEENAGER has, reportedly, been raped several times by a close family member in Region One (Barima-Waini), police say. According to the ‘cops’, the suspect began “engaging in sexual activity
April 8, 2021
GUYANA Defence Force (GDF), Chief-of-Staff, Brigadier Godfrey Bess, was recently vaccinated against COVID-19. Members of the GDF, because of their national role and responsibilities are frontline personnel and are
April 8, 2021
— 1.3 million new cases recorded; driving down infections starts by staying home, adhering to safety measures, says PAHO COVID-19 infections continue to surge throughout the Americas, with more
April 8, 2021
JORGE Luis Suarez Fundora, a Cuban, pleaded guilty to overstaying his time in Guyana when he made an appearance at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday. Fundora was ordered to
April 8, 2021
— Caribbean ministers highlighted IICA’S role, discussed new challenges stemming from the pandemic MINISTERS and secretaries of agriculture of 14 Caribbean countries related some of the dramatic consequences of
April 7, 2021
— IMF projects in new economic outlook report GUYANA’S projected economic growth for 2021, measured through its real Gross Domestic Product (GDP), has doubled from 8.1 percent to 16.4
April 7, 2021
… as COVID hospitalisations, deaths increase AMID a noticeable increase in COVID-19 deaths and the number of persons who have been hospitalised with the more severe symptoms of the
April 7, 2021
A 29-year-old hire car driver, Parmanand Thakur, of Number 60 Village, Corentyne, Berbice was chopped to the head during an argument with his girlfriend, on Easter Day. Reports are
April 7, 2021
A 49-year-old shopkeeper, Trevor Alfred, of Nazarene Street, Grove Squatting Area, East Bank of Demerara (EBD), was stabbed to death during an argument over money around 18:30h, on Monday.
April 7, 2021
ON any given day on a drive around, one might spot someone moseying along the side of the road on an electric bike, and those sightings are going to
