Giving overseas-based Guy-anese parliamentary representation and ministerial positions is a big part of the Alliance For Change’s (AFC) policy, given the large contributions of the Diaspora to Guyana, the AFC’s Presiden-tial Candidate Khemraj Ramjattan has said.
Demerara Bank Limited opened its newest branch at Diamond on the East Bank Demerara yesterday, with its Chairman Dr Yesu Persaud calling for the creation of a business climate that would lead to more jobs.
Declaring that it was not a one-man show, freshly minted PNCR presidential candidate David Granger says he will discuss elections strategy with party leader Robert Corbin and warned that corruptly conceived projects will be rolled back under any government led by him.
Veteran journalist Sharief Khan worked his way up from humble beginnings to leave a legacy of hard work and well trained-journalists.
Heavy rainfall swamped sections of Laluni yesterday leaving anxious farmers fearful for their crops and renewing their plea to the authorities to clear the overgrowth that clogs the Laluni Creek.
Improved road links could see the resuscitation of south-western Region Eight as a large producer of “environmentally adaptable crops” such as onions and Irish potatoes but for more perishable crops other constraints will have to be tackled if those are to be produced competitively.
On December 5 last year, Laurindo Robertson disappeared. He was found dead the next morning in a tunnel of the mining pit where he was working at Marudi in Region Nine.
Pupils at the Sisters Village Nursery School at Goed Intent, West Bank Demerara were forced to return home yesterday after major leaks in the roof forced the suspension of classes.
A local engineering company has commenced work to reactivate the Tumatumari hydroelectricity station in Region Eight (Potaro/Siparuni) as part of a wider plan for industrial development in the area.
Less than a year after it was opened, the Al-Aziz Splash Inc fruit juice factory was late Thursday night gutted by a fire set by three men who invaded the premises and also set the lone guard on duty alight.
The water main for the new “elite” housing development at Sparendaam was laid late last year, according to residents.
There is no evidence of widespread corruption of mines officers, head of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) William Woolford says.
An ex-policeman was killed and his body stuffed in the septic tank of his Parfait Harmonie, West Bank Demerara home where it was discovered yesterday and his reputed wife, a US citizen, is in police custody assisting with investigations.
As she turns four today, Varshanie Ramdass will finally hold the doll placed out of her reach on a wooden shelf in her Plastic City, Vreed-en-Hoop, West Coast Demerara home.
Hunting, fishing, parakari, forro and… marathons make a Shulinab Christmas. Shulinaban, Nicholas Fredericks, spoke with SN journalist Gaulbert Sutherland about Christmastime in the last Macushi village in the South Central Rupununi in Region Nine.
A popular Region Three contractor was fatally stabbed, allegedly by his brother who was in turn shot in his foot by police as he attempted to flee the scene at La Grange, West Bank Demerara, following an argument over paint yesterday.
A man is in custody as police probe the suspicious death of another man whose body was discovered outside a house at Plantain Walk, West Bank Demerara early yesterday morning.
A popular Region Three contractor was today fatally stabbed, allegedly by his brother who was in turn shot in his foot by police as he attempted to flee the scene at La Grange, West Bank Demerara, following an argument over paint.
Experiencing a decline in logging, residents of the Supenaam Creek are returning to farming with new lands being opened as the government digs canals in the area.
My guides were reluctant to enter the mouth of the creek, even if they would not say it outright.
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