By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Sunday, January 18, 2009 | 14 Comments
-Youth Minister reveals
One of the two major companies producing alcohol here will soon be introducing a “very active programme” to promote “sensible drinking,” according to …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, January 10, 2009 | 13 Comments
The details of four dead pensioners were used to perpetrate fraud amounting to almost $900,000 in the Pensions Department of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, January 10, 2009 | 13 Comments
Once a household name in Guyana, Olive Gopaul is rarely seen on television today, except for when she announces the winning numbers for the Guyana …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Friday, January 9, 2009 | 37 Comments
Money collected for the dead
Fourteen employees of the pension department of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), Brickdam office were yesterday sent home as investigations …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, January 3, 2009 | 6 Comments
Shonnet Moore has come a long way from the bright-eyed schoolgirl who was crowned Miss Guyana Talented Teen at age 18.
Shonnet Moore
Today the 22-year-old local …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Tuesday, December 9, 2008 | 55 Comments
‘Narcotics violation’ deportee now heads
reintegration agency
Donna Snagg committed a “narcotics violation” in the United States, the country she had called home for 20 years, …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Wednesday, December 3, 2008 | 130 Comments
`I, Phillip Bynoe, was guilty of trying to solve Guyana’s problems through antagonistic approaches and that was wrong’
Pardoned treason accused Phillip Bynoe yesterday admitted that …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, November 22, 2008 | 5 Comments
one of a kind
There are many adjectives that can be used to describe Donna Ramsammy-James, but accomplished just about covers it, when one considers the …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Wednesday, November 19, 2008 | 32 Comments
American, Canadian companies continue search for missing aircraft
Hope is still alive for the rescue of the three men on board the US chartered aircraft that …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Monday, November 17, 2008 | 74 Comments
Guyana’s alcohol problem persists
Manickchand: Producers have to get on board
The stories may have different characters but the plots remain the same: a man, a woman …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Monday, November 10, 2008 | 82 Comments
Men in two vehicles were involved in the murder of clothes vendor Raphael Piggott on Saturday in Cummings Lodge, another execution-style case.
The pregnant reputed wife …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Wednesday, November 5, 2008 | 8 Comments
Following three days of aerial searches without luck in locating the US-registered plane that went missing over the Cuyuni area, Minister of Public Works & …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Sunday, November 2, 2008 | 18 Comments
Soldier says ‘betrayed’ by roughing-up claim
One of the soldiers who said he was pepper–sprayed and whipped with metal pipes by officers attached to the Military …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, November 1, 2008 | 20 Comments
Seventeen-year-old Devi Ramcharitar sat behind the wheel of the car she won as the Miss Guyana Sari queen and pinched herself to ensure she was …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Thursday, October 30, 2008 | 83 Comments
Manickchand: Police should not have released suspect
One week after she was said to have been battered by a man close to her to the point …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Monday, October 27, 2008 | 30 Comments
– lawyer/politicians agitate for change countrywide
“The first thing that hits you is the stench. It is a smell that no human being should have to …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Sunday, October 26, 2008 | 0 Comments
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By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Wednesday, October 22, 2008 | 1 Comment
Some students of the Itabali Primary School, Mazaruni had to be relocated following damage to the building said to have been aggravated by blasting at …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Tuesday, October 21, 2008 | 49 Comments
There is a group of people in Guyana who are suffering in silence as they are scorned and discriminated against; some even face physical abuse.
Some …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Saturday, October 18, 2008 | 3 Comments
Marcie De Santos is still basking in the glory of being awarded the Shabeau Magazine ‘new and upcoming designer’ award at the recent Guyana Fashion …