High Court Judge Sandra Kurtzious on Friday handed down a ruling that the sale of C-Island Hotel located at Lot 46 High and Princes streets, Georgetown was not fraudulent and that the buyer, Marlus Hendricks, is fully entitled to it as the new legal owner and that title is to be passed within the next three months.
By Abigail Headley
Recent crossover from APNU to the PPP/C, Trichria Richards will come up against APNU candidate, Winston Harding who had been embroiled in a child molestation scandal causing his party to withdraw support from him in the 2016 local government elections.
By Joseph Allen
A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) is warning residents of Georgetown and other municipalities that if the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) does take up control of the councils they can lose their lands.
The new Independence Boulevard, often referred to as ‘Punt Trench Dam’, is set for opening soon, barring some minor final touches, the Ministry of Public Works said yesterday.
A New Amsterdam, Berbice man was on Saturday busted with 54.790 kilograms of cannabis during an anti-crime patrol by ranks from the Mahaica Police Station.
Chief Scientist at the Guyana Rice Develop-ment Board (GRDB) Dr Mahendra Persaud was on Saturday inducted as a 2023 Anthony N Sabga Awards Carib-bean Excellence Laureate for his contribution to Science and Technology in agriculture.
The police say they are investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of 18-year-old Henry Williams, a labourer of Busby Dam, Craig, East Bank Demerara which occurred on 3rd June, 2023 at about 11 pm.
Forty-six-year-old Kwesi Lewis appeared virtually at the Magistrate’s Court in Georgetown yesterday before Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus to answer to charge over a fraudulent promise of a US visa.
Twenty-five Guyana Water Inc (GWI) plant operators from across the country recently graduated from a rigorous upskilling programme designed by the company.
Michael Greenspon, President of the Inter-American Press Association (IAPA), and Gabriela Vivanco, President of the Executive Committee, are seeking those interested in the position of Executive Director at the organization.
Virjanand Narain of Suriname appeared today before Magistrate Renita Singh at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court to answer the charge of possession of 66.9 grammes of ecstasy and 101.5 grammes of hashish aka cannabis resin for the purpose of trafficking.
The Police say that at about 9.20 pm yesterday on the Mon Repos Public Road, East Coast Demerara (ECD), motorcar PMM 9156 driven by a 48-year-old male of Helena #1 Mahaica, ECD fatally struck, 67-year-old Muntaz Alli of Lot 37 Mon Repos North, ECD.
A United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) assessment of all 24 school dormitories across the country last year highlighted a plethora of deficiencies to the Ministry of Education and another followed with myriad recommendations but it is unclear if any changes were made.
PPP/C General Secretary Bharrat Jagdeo last night joined his party’s Georgetown candidates in an appeal for votes to secure its first majority at the Mayor and City Council in over 57 years.
The first report by the Natural Resource Fund (NRF) Board on its operations is completed and is expected to be made public sometime soon, sources close to the process say.
In response to concerns about its perceived heavy-handedness in the eviction of the Hill Foot squatters, the Guyana Police Force has stated that its mandate is to maintain law and order and if squatters are behaving disorderly and damaging public and private property and injuring people, the police will engage.
On June 16, the High Court will rule on whether the government and ExxonMobil will be allowed to join the litigation challenging a decision made by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to issue a permit to ExxonMobil for its Gas to Energy (GTE) project.
Four people are now homeless after a fire that was electrical in origin destroyed their home at Lot 38 Graham Street, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, at about 11:00 hrs yesterday.