By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | 3 Comments
Several new cassava varieties are currently being evaluated in Region Nine to determine other uses for the tuber to add value and boost hinterland agriculture.
Director …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | 4 Comments
- gov’t team hears
Residents of Mahaica, East Coast Demerara were urged to clean their surroundings to facilitate road works, when a team of government officials …
By Oluatoyin Alleyne | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
While the Inner-Wheel Club of Georgetown may be well known for its annual Easter hat show in the Promenade Gardens, over the years it has …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | 5 Comments
The Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) recently installed two solar water pumps at the Parika back dam communities and is set to install a third at …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
-court hears
Alister Gonsalves, 29, was remanded to prison yesterday for allegedly threatening to kill his cousin while they were at the East La Penitence Police …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | 1 Comment
Deeraj Sanmogan, the man who sustained burns all over his body after he was trapped inside a fuel boat that exploded, continues to cling to …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | 0 Comments
-Persaud tells residents
Residents of Moruca and Mabaruma, in Region One have been worried about the shortage of water for agricultural and domestic use, as a …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | 0 Comments
–human rights report
Violence against women was widespread and crossed racial and economic lines last year, according to the 2009 US State Department report on Human …
By Stabroek staff | Wednesday, March 17, 2010 | 0 Comments
Students of the Rosignol Primary School in Region Five came out in numbers to join in the celebration of Mashramani 2010 with a Children’s Parade …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 27 Comments
The Region One (Barima/ Waini) administration has launched an investigation into allegation that up to $4.5 million were advanced off the books to a former …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 45 Comments
The Medical Council of Guyana is investigating the case of a West Coast Berbice man, who had his stomach cut open to remove a hernia …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 9 Comments
Murdered newspaper vendor, Jacqueline George’s throat was slit, an autopsy confirmed yesterday. Her reputed husband, the main suspect, remains on the run.
Jacqueline George
Police said in …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 29 Comments
Guyanese international recording artiste Eddy Grant may take legal action against a British pop band for pirating one of his hits produced in the 1980s.
Eddy …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 14 Comments
– says bauxite workers approached NAACIE
General Secretary of NAACIE Kenneth Joseph has rejected recent assertions by officials of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 26 Comments
The Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) yesterday fired its Materials Manager after he was found guilty of breaching the corporation’s procurement procedures in the purchasing electrodes.
In …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 4 Comments
– woman still in custody
Police are still looking for two other suspects in last Friday’s kidnapping, while the first suspect who was held could be …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 5 Comments
Imran Hemraj pleaded not guilty to a charge of assault so as to cause actual bodily harm but he pleaded guilty to a charge of …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 10 Comments
- court told
A clothes vendor yesterday pleaded not guilty to making use of abusive language to another woman who had been her friend since 2007, …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 11 Comments
A labourer was yesterday read a charge of robbery with violence when he appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson.
Enrico Innis, 26, of 3W26 South …
By Stabroek staff | Tuesday, March 16, 2010 | 16 Comments
A man alleged to be the second gunman in the Cool Square Bar murder made an appearance yesterday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, where he …