A collision involving a car and a tractor towing a trailer, which occurred yesterday morning on the Friendship Public Road, East Bank Demerara (EBD), has left the tractor’s driver dead, while the other was said to be too intoxicated to even give a statement.
The University of Guyana (UG) yesterday launched the long-delayed World Bank-funded US$10M Science and Technology Support Project (STSP).
Officials from the Region 10 Regional Democratic Council (RDC) were given a failing grade when they appeared before the Public Accounts Committee (PAC) of Parliament on Monday to explain multi-million dollar overpayments to contractors cited in the Auditor General’s 2010 Report.
Relatives of Tyron Emmanuel Achaia, the 28-year-old Guyanese national shot dead in front of his residence in Trinidad, say that a Post Mortem Examination (PME) carried out Wednesday evening determined that he died after the bullet pierced his heart.
The auto industry is booming, but so are complaints about dealers, especially those specialising in second-hand vehicles, who have been told to expect penalties if found guilty of breaking the laws.
Explaining the Auditor General’s finding that over $1.252 billion in contracts were awarded to pharmaceutical manufacturer New GPC using sole-sourcing rather than competitive bidding process in 2010, Permanent Secretary of the Health Ministry Leslie Cadogan yesterday said the company had met the specifications laid down in law.
Zeelugt is a small, yet vibrant village on the East Bank Essequibo situated between Tuschen and De Kinderen.
A Georgetown family with roots in Essequibo, who had made plans to host a party for needy children on the Essequibo Coast on Decem-ber 9, almost had those plans overturned by the capricious operation of the Essequibo ferry.
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