July 31, 2015
PRESIDENT David Granger has issued a call for the reformation of the Education system in the Caribbean to ensure that regional graduates are equipped to advance the region’s industries
July 31, 2015
Courts Guyana Inc. celebrated the Emancipation anniversary with staff, patrons and friends yesterday at its Main Street operations. Patrons were greeted by drumming after which there was a display of
July 31, 2015
THE St. Joseph Mercy Hospital School of Nursing has graduated its 64th batch of Registered Nurses (RNs), and the efforts of the 17 medical professionals were recognized during
July 31, 2015
THE Government of Guyana yesterday donated $2 million to the African Cultural and Development Association (ACDA) for the hosting of Emancipation celebrations.According to a release, the donation is timely
July 31, 2015
THE Audit Office of Guyana has uncovered undocumented purchases of fuel and lubricants by the Central Housing and Planning Authority (CHPA) in 2013 amounting to more than $1.2M.These commodities
July 31, 2015
ONE hundred and seventy-seven years ago the cry of freedom reverberated throughout the British Commonwealth. It was the cry of Africans, enslaved for hundreds of years in chattel slavery,
July 31, 2015
THE Cuffy250 Committee joins with the rest of Guyana in saluting the African Guyanese community on the observance of the 177th anniversary of the formal abolition of slavery.We urge
July 31, 2015
THIS Emancipation Day reaches us at what may well be another turning point on Guyana’s road of freedom.The Guyanese people, including the descendants of African slaves with others, unexpectedly
March 6, 2013
Justice Prem Persaud, Deputy Governor of the Central Bank, Dr Gobin Ganga, and former General Secretary of the Clerical and Commercial Workers Union (CCWU), Grantley Culbard have been appointed
March 6, 2013
AFTER conducting a voir dire (a trial within a trial) relating to an oral confession, Justice Roxanne George yesterday began presiding at the substantive trial of Nolan Roberts, called
March 6, 2013
THE Guyana Police Force (GPF) said, yesterday, that, contrary to a news article published in the Guyana Times of Monday, March 4, no person was stabbed to death
March 6, 2013
SIX local tourism organisations are up for possible recognition following their nomination for the prestigious Sustainable Tourism Award (STA) at this year’s Caribbean Tourism Organisation’s 14th Annual Caribbean Conference
March 6, 2013
IN what can be considered the first ever public response from the Chinese embassy since the use of foreign labour to construct the Marriott hotel made headlines in the
March 6, 2013
CONSULTANT engineers are currently working with local slaughter houses in order to identify work that needs to be done to upgrade the facilities, Minister of Agriculture, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy,
March 6, 2013
THE Ministry of Education and Peace Corps HIV and AIDS prevention and control programme ‘YES’ – Youth Educators Safeguarding Our Work Force – is currently being implemented in 36
March 6, 2013
CHINESE national Yang Xia Fa, who was charged with trafficking two grammes of cocaine, had his case dismissed by Magistrate Adela Nagamootoo, last week, after the prosecution failed to
March 6, 2013
THE Amerindian Action Movement of Guyana (TAAMOG) has strongly condemned the “high-handed police actions of brutality and criminality” against small miners in the Marudi Mountains, Deep South Rupununi and
March 6, 2013
MINISTER of Home Affairs, Mr. Clement Rohee, last Sunday commissioned the Tain Recreational Park, at Port Mourant, Berbice, which has provided the community with an additional facility for recreational