After years of pleading by residents for work to be done on the East Bank Berbice main access road, Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, yesterday announced that the project will commence today.
Life would be made easier for working people when the Giftland Mall opens its FoodMaxx supermarket that offers “next generation shopping” at competitive prices, the company says.
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday said that he will accept an invitation from President David Granger to meet next Monday for further talks on the appointment of a Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (Gecom).
Minister of Business with responsibility for Tourism, Dominic Gaskin, says that last year, a total of 235,000 visitors arrived in Guyana, a 17 per cent increase over the previous year and so far for the first quarter of 2017, a six per cent increase was recorded as opposed to the same period in 2016.
With sugar production out of existence at the Wales estate on the West Bank of Demerara, government is moving ahead with its seed paddy cultivation and has completed 185 hectares of land out of the proposed 200.
A Corentyne man was on Friday afternoon found guilty by a jury at the High Court in New Amsterdam of murdering his mother-in-law, Neelawattie Isaac also known as ‘Navita’, 36, on December 16th, 2014 at Whim Village, Corentyne.
A Nandy Park, East Bank Demerara businessman was found dead in his yard yesterday with a gunshot wound to his head in what is suspected to be a case of suicide.
The Jamaica Customs Agency is reporting a seizure of more than 165 pounds of cocaine in containers from Guyana and Suriname.
A forty-two-year-old cattle farmer of Adelphi Village, East Canje, was yesterday morning struck down and killed by motor car, PSS 6395, along the Number 19 Public Road at around 1:30 am.
While there has been no word from the procuring entity, the Ministry of Education, on the promised report into the $42M Palmyra, Berbice monument base collapse, works last week ceased again at the site.
A Linden motorcyclist died yesterday after begin involved in an accident on the Amelia’s Ward, Linden Public Road.
The Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA) Major (rtd) Aubrey Heath-Retemyer has dismissed suggestions that the agency is being influenced by members of the government.
Police in ‘C’ Division are investigating the death of a patient from the West Demerara Regional Hospital who reportedly committed suicide.
The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) hosted its eighth annual AIDS Candlelight Memorial last Sunday as part of the inaugural Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Transgender (LGBT) Pride Festival in Guyana.
The probe into an alleged plot to assassinate President David Granger is still continuing, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said on Friday.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Organisation of American States (OAS) has failed to pass either of two resolutions on Venezuela as member countries fail to agree on the way forward.
(Jamaica Observer) Kelly Tomblin didn’t hesitate when she admitted that the greatest challenge she faced in her five years at Jamaica Public Service Company Limited (JPS) was electricity theft.In
President David Granger on Saturday said that while Guyana is on the brink of self-sufficiency, the country must, as a matter of priority, achieve total food security.
LONDON, (Reuters) – Prime Minister Theresa May said Britain must be tougher in stamping out Islamist extremism after attackers killed at least seven people by ramming a van into pedestrians on London Bridge and stabbing revellers in nearby bars.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Foreign Trade has rejected claims that Jamaican immigration, customs or security personnel searched a Trinidadian Minister of Government at the Norman Manley International Airport on Friday.
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