By Gaulbert Sutherland | Saturday, August 16, 2008 | 9 Comments
-after botched holiday travel plans
Upset parents of over 200 students studying in Cuba erupted in anger yesterday while some were reduced to tears after learning …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Thursday, August 14, 2008 | 5 Comments
Police on the West Demerara are seeking a gunman who robbed the On-The-Go Service station at Nismes on Tuesday night while a 17-year-girl will shortly …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Wednesday, August 13, 2008 | 3 Comments
Gaulbert Sutherland concludes his account of a visit to Arau, an Akawaio-Arecuna
village near the Venezuelan border
The five-foot solar panel, dust covering its face, stood upright …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Saturday, August 9, 2008 | 0 Comments
As a young boy dreaming of becoming a pilot, Dean Jackson walked to his father’s store after school, scarcely giving a thought that in the …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Friday, August 8, 2008 | 44 Comments
The playing of music in vehicles used for public transport has been outlawed with the passage of a Bill providing for this yesterday.
All political parties …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Thursday, August 7, 2008 | 8 Comments
A 19-year-old guard attached to the MMC Security Force died last night after allegedly shooting himself at the company’s Happy Acres, East Coast Demerara headquarters …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Sunday, August 3, 2008 | 2 Comments
Scenic beauty and the contrary world of mining
The mountains are cold in the morning, more so at 3am, and the moisture from the mist drips …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Saturday, August 2, 2008 | 17 Comments
Inadequate $$ had been budgeted for repairs
A Rupununi man died on Thursday after falling through the incomplete decking of the Moco-Moco Creek Bridge at Lethem, …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Friday, August 1, 2008 | 4 Comments
The recently constructed $16M Rupu-nuni River bridge that caved in under an excavator is not expected to be repaired until next month or October, Chairman …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Tuesday, July 29, 2008 | 2 Comments
Work is ongoing on the Linden-Lethem road but the rain has been wreaking havoc with the maintenance, Engi-neering Coordinator of the Ministry of Public Works, …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Sunday, July 27, 2008 | 4 Comments
The woman said she wanted to be “free again”. In a village sited in one of the most scenic parts of Guyana and with wide-open …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Saturday, July 26, 2008 | 8 Comments
Using a cellular phone while driving a vehicle will soon be an offence punishable under the law while persons convicted of using false number plates …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Monday, July 21, 2008 | 5 Comments
-GGMC to do further checks
Mining operations along the Arau River in Region Seven (Cuyuni/Mazaruni) have damaged a section of the waterway, changing the lives of …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Monday, July 7, 2008 | 37 Comments
Five persons died in a horrific smash-up involving a car and a pick-up on the Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara public road last night,
Dead …
By Gaulbert Sutherland | Wednesday, June 4, 2008 | 33 Comments
….At Versailles
A US$4M resort offering various amenities and targeting overseas-based Guyanese is set to open its doors at Versailles, West Bank Demerara later this month.
The …