Guyana News

Employees of the Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) will now benefit from a 20% increase as the local consortium and three trade unions yesterday signed a multi-year collective bargaining agreement.

Historian Tota Mangar was robbed of his SUV on Monday evening, just after he exited Moray House on Camp Street, Georgetown.

A West Ruimveldt gold miner was yesterday sentenced to nearly five years in prison after being found guilty of armed robbery.

The two men busted at a hotel with a quantity of cocaine pellets last Friday were yesterday refused bail after being charged with conspiracy to traffic the drugs.

The People’s Progressive Party has proclaimed that following a meeting on Saturday of its Central Committee (CC) there will be no engagements in relation to unity talks with the government.

Guyana will not be caught unawares by the H1N1/ Swine Flu virus, Minister of Public Health Dr George Norton said, adding that doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital are aware and alert to the possibility of the virus entering Guyana.

A police officer was chopped on Monday night when he intervened in a fight outside of a wedding house opposite his home and he is dissatisfied with how fellow officers have handled the case so far.

A 69-year-old fisherman of Ruby, East Bank Essequibo drowned in a canal around 2 pm yesterday while trying to set a seine.

One of the three men held after the recent robbery of a Mahaicony supermarket is now blind as a result of injuries he sustained when villagers apprehended him.

The government has revealed that the E-Government Unit has begun rolling out Wi- Fi networks in schools, with the hinterland and remote areas projected to benefit from internet access by the end of the first quarter of 2016.

The statements taken from the late Fitzroy Fiedtkou, who was present when his sister Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris, 72, was gunned down at her Robb Street home, were on Monday read in the High Court, which heard that he had identified two of the four men on trial for the crime.

Reports of dire problems at the Guyana National Cooperative Bank (GNCB) formed the basis of a cable on May 9th, 1978 from the US Embassy here to the State Department and missions in the Caribbean.

An 11-year-old boy was struck down and killed on the Bath Settlement Public Road, at West Coast Berbice on Sunday evening, following the collision of two cars.

The New Amsterdam Hospital’s neonatal unit will be closed for approximately one week while the Ministry of Public Health attempts to address several deficiencies within the unit.

One of the men who was reported to have recently been beaten and then shot at afterward in the parking lot of the Pegasus Hotel is being accused of committing a sexual assault, which led to the altercation.

The lifeless body of an Enmore, East Coast Demerara man was discovered early Monday morning floating in a gutter in front of his house and his son believes that he was a victim of foul play.

Five new land surveyors, who completed the 2015 Sworn Lands and Surveys examination, were sworn in at a simple graduation ceremony on Monday A release for the Ministry of the Presidency reported that the five took their oath of office before Minister of State Joseph Harmon,

Two persons, including a teenager are patients at   the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) following a stabbing incident at Parika Backdam, East Bank Essequibo on Saturday evening.

A pastor was shot to his head with pellets after he courageously confronted a masked bandit who was holding his son at gunpoint at their Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo home on Sunday evening.

As the Labour Department seeks to end a long-running wage calculation dispute between management and workers of Bosai Minerals Guyana, the Chinese company yesterday refused to submit the records of an aggrieved employee and indicated that it would rather go to arbitration to resolve the issue.