Guyana News

The newborn baby who fell off a cot at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation is in a serious but stable condition.

Two suspects are currently in police custody after the armed attack on a group of moneychangers on America Street on Tuesday night.

Restructuring and lack of financing are hampering Asian timber company, Bai Shan Lin Forest Development Inc.

This Toyota IST plunged into a ditch at Farm, East Bank Essequibo around 2 pm yesterday and the driver and another occupant escaped unhurt.

A Guyanese delegation headed by Minister of Foreign Affairs Carl Greenidge recently concluded a series of meetings in Barbados to deepen relations between the two countries.

A London-based Guyanese woman will be charged today with attempting to smuggle over three kilogrammes of cocaine in bottles of locally-produced rum onto a flight out of the country.

Ten persons lost their home when a fire gutted a Cummings Lodge house early yesterday morning.

Three key laws have been reproduced in braille to help visually-impaired citizens know their rights.

Almost two months after William Nurse and Lisa Khedoo were struck off a bicycle near Lamaha and East streets, Georgetown, the driver of the car that allegedly caused the accident has been charged.

The Probation and Social Services Department of the Ministry of Social Protection on Tuesday engaged its staff in an interactive workshop on improving the quality of service provided to citizens.

The St George’s Cathedral will be celebrating its 121st anniversary on Sunday.

A Leopold Street woman yesterday admitted to slashing her neighbour’s face after a row over stolen sanitary pads and panty liners.

Guyanese DJ Dwidth Ferguson has surrendered to law enforcement officials in Canada, Head of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) James Singh has confirmed.

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today advertised for expressions of interest in designing a new headquarters for it at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.

Two teenagers lost their lives on Tuesday night when the car they were in smashed into the concrete base of an arch on the Number 74 Village Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice.

“Absolutely not! It’s the law and I am only adhering to the law…the next thing they will ask me is they don’t want to pay taxes,” Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said in rejecting a call by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) to ease the 2am curfew to 4am on weekends and holidays.

Ten micro-entrepreneurs from across the country yesterday received $1M each under a Chilean government-funded programme to start various projects, which, among other things aims to curb hunger in the areas where they live.

Amid a stream of road deaths President David Granger yesterday plugged a three-prong plan to curb the scourge and his Public Infrastructure Minister noted that the burgeoning number of vehicles with little or no increase in road capacity was a critical factor.

An eighty-four-year-old Rose Hall woman was yesterday rescued from her burning house during the mid-morning hours.

A $118m contract was yesterday signed for the renovation of the former Customs House to accommodate the Bureau of Statistics.