GPOC to launch awareness campaign for increased use of mailboxes
The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) will soon be launching a public awareness campaign on the need for every household to have a mailbox.
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The Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) will soon be launching a public awareness campaign on the need for every household to have a mailbox.
The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) will be hiring private contractors to undertake the cleanup after the Mashramani celebrations, the council revealed yesterday.
Multi-million dollar bids were opened under the Demerara Harbour Bridge yesterday for the rehabilitation of 17 pontoons with an engineer’s estimate of $262.4M.
Town Clerk Royston King has officially announced the vacancy of the council seat previously held by APNU+AFC Councillor Junior Garrett paving the way for a by-election to be held.
As of yesterday morning, fishermen were able to head out to the Corentyne River, after a section of the mud which was blocking the Number 43 Village channel was flushed out via the sluice in the village.
An East Ruimveldt mason is now a remanded prisoner after being accused of possession of over two pounds of ganja.
Public consultations on the proposed fee for residential garbage collection will be extended, Solid Waste Director of the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) Walter Narine said yesterday, after explaining that the meetings held so far have attracted a poor turnout.
Demolition of the St Rose’s High School is expected to begin during the Easter holidays with displaced students being housed in other buildings within the school’s compound until such time as a new building is constructed.
In observance of International Day for Women and Girls in Science, a scholarship programme established in honour of the late Tchaiko Kwayana, the wife of politician and human rights activist Eusi Kwayana, has awarded four scholarships to four young Buxtonians to pursue studies in science at the University of Guyana.
Pupils preparing to write the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) have been provided with another tool to assist in their preparation with the launch of the NGSA App by the Ministry of Education in collaboration with STEM Guyana.
It was out of the need to connect with Guyanese who were interested in seeing films by Guyanese and Caribbean filmmakers that the Timehri Film Festival was born three years ago, according to Romola Lucas, one of its founders.
The Ministry of Public Telecommunications and the Guyana Post Office Corporation (GPOC) are currently researching the introduction of a debit card-like system for pensioners to receive their monthly payments, according to Minister Cathy Hughes.
Minister of State Joseph Harmon this afternoon said that Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo today successfully underwent heart by-pass surgery in the United States.
Kerwin Cordel DosSantos c/d Buffy, 24, a labourer of East La Penitence Squatting Area and George Hope c/d Gregory, 24, of HUU Freeman Street, East La Penitence were today charged with murder in the course or furtherance of a robbery committed on Shawn Nurse c/d Fabulous, police say.
Police ranks in ‘A’ Division during a 10-hour operation which concluded at 3 this morning at Kurukururu, Soesdyke/Linden Highway, arrested six persons as part of a crackdown on carjackers.
A housewife who was about 4 pm yesterday stabbed multiple times about her body by her husband at the Charity Water Front, Essequibo Coast, underwent emergency surgery and is presently in a serious condition at the Intensive Care Unit of the Charity Hospital, police say.
The first public hearing to discuss the proposed rate changes by Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) saw fierce opposition yesterday from the citizenry, who called for the utility company to produce a record of its accounts before proceeding any further.
A porter was fatally stabbed by his drinking partner during an argument at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo on Sunday night.
A 17-year-old of Canal Number Two Polder, West Bank Demerara, was electrocuted after a live wire fell on him on Sunday night and the Guyana Power and Light Inc.
The police are investigating the alleged rape of a special constable at a city hotel last Saturday morning.
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