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May 15, 2020
APPROXIMATELY 300 hampers were distributed this week to senior citizens residing in Linden, Region 10. The distribution exercise, which forms part of the town’s golden jubilee celebration, was arranged
May 15, 2020
In compliance with COVID-19 Emergency Measures (No. 3) made pursuant to the Direction by the President given under the Public Health Ordinance cap 145, the Transport and Harbours Department
May 15, 2020
—- Alexander, Gunraj say unlikely commission will revert to previous declarations GUYANA Elections Commission (GECOM) Commissioner Vincent Alexander has stated that it is highly unlikely that the commission will
May 15, 2020
…to reduce spread of COVID-19 in Indigenous villages INDIGENOUS villages are highly vulnerable to the Novel Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, and this vulnerability could be exacerbated if persons, particularly miners
May 15, 2020
—Dep’t of Social Cohesion to unveil proposal THE Department of Social Cohesion is planning to unveil a proposal titled, The Renewal Arts Scheme, which seeks to maintain national morale
May 15, 2020
THE National Insurance Scheme has introduced an amnesty on the payment of contributions owing at January 15, 2020 to May 15, 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, there
May 15, 2020
FORMER cane cutters of the Wales Sugar Estate, on Wednesday, began receiving outstanding severance payments from the Guyana Sugar Corporation. According to a release by the Guyana Agricultural and
May 15, 2020
Plug social protection gaps in developing countries to prevent future crises—-ILO says ?GENEVA (ILO News) – The COVID-19 crisis has exposed devastating gaps in social protection coverage in developing
June 8, 2019
COMPRESSED air, which was drilled into the earth at Kumaka near the town of Mabaruma by the Guyana Water Inc., was attributed to being the cause of an eruption
June 8, 2019
MONTHS after Senior Magistrate, Fabayo Azore, called on former Attorney General (AG), Anil Nandlall, to lead his defence in the trial for the alleged larceny of over $2M worth
June 8, 2019
TWENTY-ONE-YEAR-OLD Daniel Boutrin, who escaped from police custody in March, was re-arrested, charged, placed before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, and remanded to prison. Boutrin, who hails from Tucville, Georgetown,
June 8, 2019
A 55-year-old vagrant was on Friday remanded to prison by Senior Magistrate, Leron Daly, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, for stealing a bicycle. Kevin Abrams pleaded not guilty to
June 8, 2019
– said it was for medicinal purposes A 27-year-old man’s explanation that the ganja found in his possession was being used for medicinal purposes resulted in him being fined
June 8, 2019
AN East Bank Demerara (EBD) man will spend the next three months behind bars for beating his elderly aunt with a wood. Senior Magistrate, Leron Daly, handed down the
June 8, 2019
SENIOR Magistrate, Leron Daly, released a 20-year-old man on $40,000 bail after he was charged for stealing a woman’s cellphone at Avenue of the Republic, Georgetown. Joshua Gibbs, of
June 8, 2019
Denish Nunes, who was “busted” with over three kilogrammes of cannabis in his apartment was on Friday remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus for drug- trafficking.
June 8, 2019
SENIOR Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Friday imposed a two-month jail sentence on Damion James, who pleaded guilty to simple larceny. James, 44, admitted that
June 8, 2019
SENIOR Magistrate Leron Daly on Friday, remanded Okele Chester to prison for ill-treating her two-year-old daughter by allegedly burning the child to the buttock with a hot spoon. Chester,
