July 21, 2015
THE Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is advising all religious and non-governmental organisations that they are free to apply for exemption from taxes. City Hall is authorised
July 21, 2015
NEXT time you’re wending along the North Coast Road to get to that overrated beach at Maracas Bay, keep an eye out for a concrete-surfaced road on the left
July 20, 2015
THE percentage of men who engage in heavy episodic drinking—the most harmful form of drinking—nearly doubled over five years, and the rate among women nearly tripled, according to a
July 20, 2015
AT the height of forensic audits being conducted at State agencies, following the APNU+AFC’s assumption to office, Commissioner General of the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA), Khurshid Sattaur, has been
July 20, 2015
CHAIRMAN of the Private Sector Commission (PSC), Norman McLean has lamented that apart from a limited labour force, the high cost of doing business in Guyana also keeps investors
July 20, 2015
MINISTER of Foreign Affairs, Carl Greenidge yesterday said Venezuela is harping on its claim to the Essequibo based on suspicion arising from a man who wanted to make a
July 20, 2015
FAZEEL Bacchus and Lennox Roberts, who were fingered in the murder of 48-year-old businessman Ganesh Ramlall, called ‘Boyo’, were remanded to prison by Magistrate Ann McLennan when they made
July 20, 2015
FIRST LADY, Sandra Granger yesterday underscored the need for more attention to be given to vulnerable groups, such as the elderly, women and girls in times of disasters and
February 19, 2013
(CARICOM Secretariat) Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Ambassador Irwin LaRocque, has issued a charge to the Region to stave off existing challenges by strengthening “our commitment to integration
February 19, 2013
ATTORNEY General and Minister of Legal Affairs, Anil Nandlall, is inviting any Guyanese to file a lawsuit against the Speaker of the National Assembly, Raphael Trotman, for allowing a
February 19, 2013
QUESTIONS have been filling the air about the availability of CCTV News in Guyana on Channel 27/Cable78. There is a question in Parliament by the Honourable Member, Ms. Cathy
February 19, 2013
THE governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) has fired back at sections of civil society which have been critical of the use of primarily Chinese workers for the construction of
February 19, 2013
WAYNE Griffith, a trader of Lot 110 Tucville, Georgetown, appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, yesterday, charged with larceny from the person. He pleaded not guilty to the offence,
February 19, 2013
A POST-MORTEM yesterday performed on the body of 8-year-old Joshua Hubbard revealed that he died from a blunt trauma to the neck and cerebral haemorrhaging. The student of St.
February 19, 2013
FANS had a real treat to four and a half hours of truly excellent steelpan music when they attended the Mashramani Steelband Competition Pan–O-Rama, at the Cliff Anderson Sports
February 19, 2013
Just recently schools in Region 4 congregated at the Diamond Secondary School for this year’s Mashramani festivities where they gave fantastic performances in dance, masquerade, drama, calypso, physical display
February 19, 2013
STAKEHOLDERS in the agro-processing business now attending a four-day lecture series are being equipped to fully comply with the education requirements of the United States Food and Drug Administration
February 19, 2013
TWO United States-based Guyanese women who returned here and went to different homes in the city Sunday morning had the most unfortunate welcome in their homeland when they were