Jeanna Pearson

Crime Chief Leslie James yesterday said that the failure by the Guyana Police Force (GPF) to make an effort to arrest Gregory Smith, the man fingered in the 1980 bomb blast death of Dr.

The former Saraswati Vidya Niketan (SVN) teacher, whose relationship with student Alex Persaud resulted in his expulsion, says she believes the embarrassment and harassment the boy faced as a result had pushed him to take his life.

Rafiq Khan, one of Guyana’s first radio broadcasters, died yesterday in Kingston, Jamaica at the age of 82.

For five years Trevette (not her real name) struggled with thoughts of suicide, while locked away in her bedroom for most of the afternoons and nights of her teenage life.

Governments of the region have been advised to be transparent with their people about the mosquito-borne chikungunya virus and have been told that as fast as new information surfaces it should be disclosed, Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) Executive Director Dr.

A city school teacher is among persons recently diagnosed with the chikungunya virus and she says health authorities need to do more work to educate the population about the virus, while citizens need to make a conscious effort toward keeping their surroundings clean.

The Linden municipality is frustrated now that a year has passed since it proposed a hike in the Wismar-Mackenzie bridge toll with no response from government, Chairman of the Linden Interim Management Committee (IMC) Orrin Gordon said.

After struggling with poor vision for almost half of his life, 20-year-old Intiaz Abdul received a corneal transplant last month at Dr Balwant Singh’s Hospital.

With 19 Grade One passes and a Grade Two, Queen’s College student Elisa Hamilton, an aspiring doctor, is the country’s unofficial top performer at this year’s Caribbean Secon-dary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations.

The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) and the Working People’s Alliance (WPA) together had planned to overthrow the then PNC government, according to surveillance records of the Guyana Police Force.

A 26-year old tailor was fatally stabbed to his heart in a struggle to evade two robbers on his way home last night.

When elderly Turkeyen resident Sewsankar was pulled from his burning home early yesterday morning, family members and neighbours who had watched firefighters battle to free the man for nearly half an hour breathed a sigh of a relief.

Story and photos by Jeanna Pearson Acres of canefields and tractors line the access roads of many villages on the West Bank of Demerara, but there is something different about La Retraite that causes villagers, especially the younger folks, to remain in the place of their birth.

-after jury fails to reach verdictCharles Cush and Jevon Wharton, the two men charged with raping and murdering nine-year-old Sade Stoby, will have to face a retrial after a jury was unable to arrive at a verdict yesterday in the Supreme Court.

– director of unit says dengue fever remains a concern   Despite a rise of mosquito-borne diseases in the region and South America, there has been a “noticeable” drop in malaria transmission in Guyana in 2013 while dengue fever continues to pose a major threat, Director of the Vector Control Services Dr Reyaud Rahman has said.

-says PNC youth arm plotted to kill him Rev. Reuben Gilbert, a close friend of Dr.

The University of Guyana Senior Staff Association (UGSSA) and the UG Workers’ Union (UGWU) have filed a writ against the university over the non-payment of workers’ benefits and remittances of their tax and insurance contributions off campus.

An early morning fire swept through the Ministry of Health Annex at Liliendaal, East Coast Deme-rara yesterday, reducing the decades-old wooden structure to rubble and forcing dozens of health workers to be relocated.

The tragedies of the mentally unstable wandering the country’s streets and the continuing domestic violence murders and suicides point to a mental health crisis that is largely being ignored by the government and private organisations, says the founder of the Guyana Foundation Supriya Bodden.

Residents of Canal Number 2 Polder, West Bank Demerara are complaining that a loam road, which runs parallel to the village access road, is on the verge of collapse after contractors ceased works nearly two years ago.