April 18, 2017
[BBC] – A US judge has formally fined Brazil’s engineering giant Odebrecht $2.6bn in a corruption case centred around the country’s state oil company, Petrobras. The fine was a plea
April 18, 2017
[BBC] – One of the front-runners in the French presidential election, far-right leader Marine Le Pen, says she would suspend all legal immigration to France. The National Front (FN) leader
April 18, 2017
[BBC] – UK Prime Minister Theresa May has announced plans to call a snap general election on 8 June. She said Britain needed certainty, stability and strong leadership following the
April 18, 2017
OVER the years, farming in Region Nine has been explored in many ways, but recently, one group from the North Rupununi village of Kwatamang has made full use of
April 18, 2017
SEEING the sky in all its splendour was tricky on Monday, not because of an unnatural phenomenon but because of the thousands of kites that flew high in all
April 18, 2017
–cite food crisis, political unrest By Zena Henry THE decline of neighbouring Venezuela’s economy and the resultant strain on its cost of living is causing many Guyanese living there
April 18, 2017
POPULAR Soca artiste, ‘Benjai’ of Trinidad and Tobago was severely injured in the face early Sunday morning following an altercation with an irate Palm Court patron. The incident reportedly
April 18, 2017
IMAM Bacchus and Sons has, over the years, successfully risen to become one of the most prominent businesses not only on the Essequibo Coast but in the entire Region
June 19, 2015
CHANNEL 6 handyman Surai Singh, accused of stealing a Samsung Galaxy S4 cellular phone and giving false information to the police, yesterday appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates Court. Singh,
June 19, 2015
JUST over a month after Guyana’s General and Regional Elections, the gazetted official results of the elections are now available on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) website: www.gecom.org.gy. A
June 19, 2015
THE Guyana Power and Light (GPL) yesterday said that a burst conductor on a 69Kv transmission line stretching from Canefield to Skeldon caused the line to trip, resulting
June 19, 2015
WHEN it comes to cleaning the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) and its surroundings, the stakes are very high and while one company now holds the contract, a
June 18, 2015
WORKS had commenced on the Specialty Hospital at Turkeyen, East Coast Demerara, but the contract with Surrendra Engineering had to be terminated and the US Government is now
June 18, 2015
RESIDENTS of Mora Point, on the Mahaicony Creek, are soon to benefit from a developed community healthcare centre, in keeping with a commitment made yesterday by Minister of
June 18, 2015
JASON Kurt, a 27-year-old accountant, was on Wednesday evening gunned down in the lower flat of his Jamoon Drive, Meadow Brook Gardens home by a lone gun-toting intruder.Kurt who
June 18, 2015
CLIVE Knights, 33 years, used an ice-pick to puncture the heart and lungs of Bert Whyte, 44 years, claiming that he was forced to do so because Whyte
June 18, 2015
IT’S nice to see that someone is actually catering for the whims and fantasies of Guyana’s children, as Vizion Sounds entity is poised to host one of the biggest
June 18, 2015
MY mother would always say, “Too much work and no play makes Jack a dull boy”. And I think the folks at the University of Guyana would have listened,