Articles published on Saturday, April 19, 2014
Over 200 kites will be shared out to arriving passengers – especially those travelling with children – at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA) over the week-end, April 19 and 20, 2014 as part the airport’s promotional drive to celebrate Easter.
Work on the completion of the Sacred Heart Roman Catholic Church on Main Street, Georgetown has ground to a halt as funds for the reconstruction of the building dwindle.
The police say that since the launching of a safe community project in Albouystown no serious crimes have occurred and the police are satisfied with how it has gone so far.
President Donald Ramotar says that the government’s legal team is examining the legitimacy of the $37.4B cuts by the opposition to the 2014 budget.
President Donald Ramotar received a courtesy call on Thursday from senior officials of Canadian miner, Guyana Goldfields Mining Company and among the issues discussed was expedited customs clearance.
The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment and the Environmental and Protection Agency (EPA) are in the process of drafting bio-safety/bio-technology legislation which will cater for the “contained” use of gene-modified organisms.
President Donald Ramotar received a courtesy call on Thursday from senior officials of Guyana Gold Fields Mining Company.
First Lady Deolatchmee Ramotar has been engaged over the past week in the distribution of kites to children in various parts of the country in keeping with the upcoming Easter celebration.
First Lady Deolatchmee Ramotar has been engaged over the past week in the distribution of kites to children in various parts of the country in keeping with the upcoming Easter celebration.
First Lady Deolatchmee Ramotar has been engaged over the past week in the distribution of kites to children in various parts of the country in keeping with the upcoming Easter celebration.
Agriculture Minister Dr. Leslie Ramsammy on Tuesday witnessed the harvesting of the first batch of English potatoes from the National Agricultural Research and Extension Institute (NAREI’s) nursery demonstration plot, Mon Repos.
The People’s National Congress Reform yesterday said that it has taken a decision not to participate in the Commission of Inquiry into the death of Walter Rodney.
(Trinidad Express) In what is a major breakthrough towards the recognition of both calypso and soca as genres in the international music market, US-based iTunes Music Store, a division of Apple Inc, has announced that both art forms have been designated as official musical categories on its Internet marketplace.
Journalist W. Henry Skerrett has passed away at the age of 85.
A 44-year-old mechanic of Anna Regina who claimed his wife “does see things” after he was charged with physically abusing and threatening to kill her was on Tuesday found guilty and fined $20,000 or an alternative of two weeks in jail.
A 43-year-old gold miner was on Tuesday sentenced to two weeks in prison by Magistrate Sunil Scarce, when he appeared before the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court charged with the possession of narcotics.
A North West District man was on Tuesday granted bail when he appeared before the Anna Regina Magistrate’s Court on a charge of simple larceny.
A man was on Thursday placed on $10,000 bail after he was charged with larceny when he appeared before Magistrate Geeta Chandan Edmond in Court 10 at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts.
Following the clearing of the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s $6 billion subvention by Parliament’s Committee of Supply, Agriculture Minister Dr Leslie Ramsammy has met with members of the opposition to iron out the criteria for members of the new Board of Directors.
Guyana is preparing for the first shipment of rice to Venezuela under this year’s quota, which will begin loading today, according to the Rice Producers Association’s General Secretary, Dharamkumar Seeraj.
