Dr Ramayya was granted leave
Region Six Regional Executive Officer (REO) Dr. Veerasammy Ramayya was granted permission by the Ministry of Communities to proceed on 14 days of vacation leave.
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Region Six Regional Executive Officer (REO) Dr. Veerasammy Ramayya was granted permission by the Ministry of Communities to proceed on 14 days of vacation leave.
Shamar Morris, a carpenter, was yesterday charged with procuring pregnant cocaine mule Patrima Isaacs to traffic a quantity of cocaine last month.
Closing statements were yesterday submitted by the attorney representing Roger Bess, the driver who allegedly fatally struck an elderly man and injured two other persons on Cemetery Road last year.
The Ministry of Social Cohesion on Friday rewarded the top performers of the 2016 Annual Grade Six Assessment 2016 from the Cuyuni/ Mazaruni (Region Seven) area with bicycles and books bags, to further encourage them in their academic pursuits, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said yesterday.
A depression along Carifesta Avenue, in the vicinity of the GTT facility, caused a driver to go careening into a nearby trench on Monday after swerving to avoid the recently constructed median.
Residents of the Fyrish/Gibraltar area in East Berbice are venting their anger at the ongoing flooding in the area.
A St. Ignatius villager will be spending the next three years in jail after he admitted that he was caught by police while transporting drugs for a friend.
The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) yesterday once again protested outside of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) headquarters over its claim that the 2015 general elections were rigged and to call for Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally to go.
A man is currently in police custody assisting with investigations over the stabbing of his neighbour yesterday.
The Corporate Secretary of the Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) yesterday testified that prior to 2015 none of the board members were paid.
Mark Prince, 36, ‘aka Fine man’ is wanted by the police for questioning in relation to ‘robbery under arms’, the police say.
A young miner is now dead after the ATV he was travelling on was involved in an accident over the weekend in the Mazaruni region.
A Guyanese man Ravindranauth `Ravi’ Roopnarine was on Thursday jailed in a Florida, USA court for just for 21 years following conviction in a US$50m mortgage fraud scam.
After more than six hours of debate that ended late last night, the long-awaited telecommunications reform legislation was passed in the National Assembly and although opposition speakers expressed support for it, they also tried without success to have it sent to a special select committee to correct what they said was its deficiencies.
Although the country’s two largest ethnic groups, East Indian and African-Guyanese, continued to decline in their numbers between 2002 and 2012, the drop was offset by continued growth in the mixed race and Amerindian populations, according to the last census.
After a police background check barred the top candidate, Scotia Bank Manager Matthew Edward Hugh Langevine, the second in line, was given the nod by the Parliamentary Committee of Appoint-ments to be the next Director of the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU).
Businesses operating in the city owe the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) over $16.2 billion in outstanding rates and the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) has called upon them to honour their civic obligation.
Former Anglican Bishop of Guyana Randolph Oswald George passed away yesterday at his home in Republic Park.
A Guyanese woman yesterday became St Lucia’s latest road fatality after the car she was driving plunged into the harbour in the wee hours of the morning.
A Guyanese woman was killed and her nine-year-old daughter injured in Queens, New York on Sunday when a drunken driver in a BMW plowed through a stop sign at more than 50 mph, hitting their car in the process.
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