Middle Rd man charged with wounding woman
A twenty-seven-year old was on Wednesday placed on $50,000 bail for allegedly causing injuries to a young woman’s face.
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A twenty-seven-year old was on Wednesday placed on $50,000 bail for allegedly causing injuries to a young woman’s face.
President David Granger last evening extolled the virtues of a proposed administrative body in place year-round to ensure that the decisions of the National Toshaos Council (NTC) are properly implemented.
Frustrated hire car drivers from Region Six yesterday staged a protest against a change in the water taxi schedule.
The Board of Directors of the Guyana Water Incorporated, following a specially convened board meeting today, decided to terminate the services of Lear Goring as the entity’s Debt Recovery Manager.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Dressed in white and chanting “this government will fall,” hundreds of thousands of opposition supporters flooded Venezuela’s capital on Thursday to press for an end to President Nicolas Maduro’s rule.
A majority of city councillors yesterday showed support for an amended contract for the controversial parking meters project, including a much shorter duration and lower fines, but divisions persisted as the Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan charged that the changes were circulated an hour before the meeting which had been called only for discussion purposes.
Who in the David Granger administration recommended Larry Singh of Linden Holding for the controversial pharmaceutical bond contract or entertained his interest in such an arrangement?
The Ministry of Public Health yesterday said a new shipment of Yellow Fever vaccines arrived on Tuesday as expected.
A Diamond, East Bank Demerara (EBD) shopkeeper is in a critical condition in hospital after she was shot once last evening during an attempted robbery.
Darrel John, the man who was last Friday found guilty of illegal firearm and ammunition possession was yesterday sentenced to 48 months imprisonment.
Four Guyanese will participate in US President Barack Obama’s 2016 Young Leaders of the Americas Initiative (YLAI) Fellows Program, a release from the US Embassy yesterday said.
The Board of the Guyana Water Inc (GWI) is expected to convene a special meeting today on the hiring of the Debt Collection Manager Lear Goring, who has been sent on administrative leave following reports of his narcotics convictions in the United States.
There is need for more careful planning by the Ministries of the Government to ensure that annual budgetary allocations can be spent in a timely manner, says President David Granger.
The People’s National Congress Reform has unveiled its 15-member Central Executive Commit-tee (CEC) with women comprising sixty percent and there are three new faces.
Persons interested in acquiring prepaid electricity meters will soon be able to so as an adequate number of the devices are expected to be available, GINA said.
Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) President Vishnu Doerga says that given the last four years of slumping business, there is need for a shift from revenue dependence on local commodities to value adding.
The Regional Executive Officer (REO) of Region Three walked out of the Council’s statutory meeting yesterday along with nine councillors of the APNU+AFC coalition after the regional chairman asked for a report.
One of the five men who were captured by the police on Monday afternoon after robbing a Logwood, Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD) grocer has confessed to the crime and six similar matters and is expected to be charged today.
An autopsy performed on the remains of Phillip Viveiros, the farmer whose body was found along the Adventure Public Road, Linden-Soesdyke Highway on Monday revealed that he died as a result of multiple injuries sustained.
Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan says he supports “on-going checks” of private security services to ensure that they are in conformity with the regulations that govern the sector, GINA said.
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