Stabroek News

Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday asserted that Permanent Secretaries (PS) can be members of political parties.

President Irfaan Ali yesterday confirmed that Paul Cheong is the new Chief Executive Officer of GuySuCo and he restated  that 5,000 hectares of land at the Skeldon Estate will return to production.

Twenty-one-year-old Keron Boyer, a security officer, appeared yesterday before Chief Magistrate (ag) Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court where he was charged with the murder of 16-year-old Benjamin Seaford.

General Secretary of the PPP, Bharrat Jagdeo, yesterday said that the party has not yet discussed the allegations and the probe of rape against party executive and former minister, Nigel Dharamlall, but it will not stall its meetings for appointments to other positions pending the completion of the police investigations.

The New York Police Department (NYPD) team which visited Guyana this week met with civil society leaders and representatives to discuss effective community policing relations.

Eusi Wilson yesterday appeared before Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus  at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court, where he was sentenced to four years imprisonment and fined $19,800,000 in relation to the possession of a narcotic for the purpose of trafficking to wit 22kgs of cannabis, CANU said yesterday.      

The Amerindian Village Elections got underway on Wednesday, May 15, and according to a release from the Department of Public Information (DPI), new toshaos, deputy toshaos, senior councillors, and councils have been elected across the various administrative regions.

The riverine communities of Orealla and Siparuta on Wednesday elected a 26-year-old teacher to be their new toshao.

By Mia Anthony Residents of Lamaha Gardens in Georgetown, particularly in the area of Garnett Street and Bel Air Avenue, have voiced concerns to Mayor Alfred Mentore about the significant increase in traffic disrupting their once serene community.

Less Talk. More Business – that’s what global investors, and regional business leaders, and innovators hope to extract from the Caribbean Investment Forum (CIF) 2024 when it is held from July 10 – 12, 2024 here in Guyana.

Three persons are now hospitalized in a serious condition after the lorry they were travelling in on Wednesday lost control and slammed into a concrete bridge and fence before coming to a halt in a trench along the East Bank Berbice (EBB) Public Road.

Dear Editor, My heart goes out to the families of the five persons who were killed in a road accident on the Linden Soesdyke Highway on Monday, May 13, 2024.

Even as the countries of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) awaits word on the progress made so far to push back on its food security challenges, confronting, to varying degrees, most of the member countries of the regional movement, a new report is painting an eye-opening picture of worsening food challenges confronting swathes of countries that extend far beyond the borders of the region.

– valuable experience garnered despite 0-2 series loss Despite being swept by the Trinidad and Tobago ‘Soca Warriors’ in their two-match international football series, Golden Jaguars head coach Jamaal Shabazz stated that Guyana’s recently concluded tour provided invaluable experience and insight that will shape the future of the locally based players.

A woman is now in the New Amsterdam Public Hospital after she was struck by a motor car along the Corentyne Public Road whose driver claimed that he mistakenly pressed the accelerator instead of the brakes.

Dear Editor, Kindly permit me space to respond to an article published on Saturday, May 11, 2024 by an online news outlet, “Guyana Daily News.” 

Over the years, there has been no shortage of state-initiated undertakings ostensibly designed to provide sustainable opportunities to enable Guyanese women, possessed of skills in various fields, to transform their talents into meaningful earnings, though it can hardly be said that these undertakings have had the effect of significantly transforming the lives of our womenfolk and families which, in a host of instances, they support as single parents.

– encounter will co-headline the event Guyana’s Mixed Martial Arts (MMA) combatant Carlston Harris will return to the octagon against American Khaos Williams at the Ultimate Fighting Championship’s (UFC) Fight Night 241 at the Apex facility in Enterprise, Nevada.

By Brooke Glasford At the core of what I do for work lies communication.

The Working People’s Alliance (WPA) on Wednesday said it was appalled at what it described as a “racially insensitive” cartoon published in the Stabroek News May 9 edition and called for universal condemnation of this publication.