By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Thursday, March 19, 2009 | 162 Comments
-says never had personal contact with him
President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that Guyanese drug trafficker Shaheed Roger Khan would have to “face the music” having …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Wednesday, March 18, 2009 | 88 Comments
While Roger Khan’s guilty plea has likely closed the door on more explosive revelations, Alliance For Change (AFC) leader Raphael Trotman yesterday said enough evidence …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Monday, March 16, 2009 | 34 Comments
Policemen searching for a murder accused were fired at yesterday morning as they were surrounding a Laing Avenue house and a 21-year-old was shot in …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, March 14, 2009 | 2 Comments
-as US-funded HIV programme winds down
Minister of Health Dr Leslie Ramsammy yesterday urged HIV programme donors to avoid duplication and opt for sector-wide implementation so …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Monday, March 9, 2009 | 9 Comments
A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) corporal died on Saturday night when the motorcycle he was riding collided with a car on the Friendship, East Bank …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, March 7, 2009 | 17 Comments
It was 1955 when a then struggling Guyanese promoter met a young Trinidadian by the name of Francisco Slinger and on a whim decided to …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, February 28, 2009 | 2 Comments
There is a trio seeking a foothold in the local music industry and it is not difficult to imagine that it could become a force …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Sunday, February 22, 2009 | 12 Comments
– DDL in moves to stamp out underage drinking
Recognising that the abuse of alcohol is high among some sections of its employees, which in …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, February 14, 2009 | 3 Comments
- Ramsammy says outbreak fear real
The Ministry of Health is investigating a recent suspected dengue death at a private hospital, Minister of Health Dr Ramsammy …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Thursday, February 12, 2009 | 2 Comments
… but CMO says there’s no ‘outbreak’
One hundred and fifteen persons have been diagnosed with dengue for the year but there is no outbreak …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Friday, February 6, 2009 | 65 Comments
–Jagdeo rescinds dismissals, to meet them shortly
Almost a week off the job, striking air traffic controllers returned to work yesterday after a promise by President …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Thursday, February 5, 2009 | 32 Comments
– hopes air traffic controllers return
Prime Minister Samuel Hinds said yesterday that he did not believe government had reached the point of firing the …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Wednesday, February 4, 2009 | 88 Comments
Air traffic controllers defiant
Minister of Transport and Hydraulics, Robeson Benn yesterday issued an ultimatum to striking air traffic controllers to immediately return to their jobs …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Monday, February 2, 2009 | 39 Comments
Doctors yesterday successfully performed a second kidney transplant here and up to press time the 47-year-old recipient and his daughter who donated the kidney were …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, January 31, 2009 | 9 Comments
A 47-year-old ex-army officer is the next kidney transplant patient and according to a source close to his family he will receive a kidney from …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, January 31, 2009 | 0 Comments
– family calls for assailants arrest
The family of a 29-year-old man, who was badly beaten after being accused of stealing a hammer and a water …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Friday, January 30, 2009 | 15 Comments
Another prisoner has escaped; this time from in front of the Camp Street prison, where he was at work, sprucing up its environs.
Prison Director Dale …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Friday, January 30, 2009 | 16 Comments
A Trinidadian may be involved in the multi-million-dollar fraud committed at Republic Bank (Guyana) Ltd and more staffers are expected to be sent home as …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Monday, January 26, 2009 | 7 Comments
Months after a fraud of almost $900,000 was discovered in the Pensions Department of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) no one has been placed before …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Wednesday, January 21, 2009 | 29 Comments
Three gun and cutlass-wielding men yesterday morning shot and killed a Mahaicony coconut estate caretaker and assaulted his wife in front of their one-year-old son …