Guyana News

“I’m just praying that my son will not have any permanent injuries when he gets older and that he will be able to use both of his hands.”

Guyana needs every able-bodied person to defend its national security, and in this light, Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo is urging more Guyanese to join the army, GINA said.

Jermin Khan had to be cut out of the truck he was driving along the Itaballi Road, Region Seven on Saturday afternoon only to be pronounced dead hours later at the Bartica Hospital.

  A 24-year-old resident of Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo has been hospitalized after he crashed into a shop at Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara around 11:30 pm on Friday.

The University of Guyana Council has approved the creation of a UG Trans-formation Task Force.

The Private Sector Commission (PSC) met with Attorney General (AG) Basil Williams at the AG’s Chambers on Wednesday to discuss the Financial Institutions (Amendment) Bill 2015 which seeks to give the revenue authority access to banking information.

Women of Moraikobai in the Mahaicony River benefitted from free screening for cervical cancer when the Cancer Institute of Guyana (CIG) took its outreach clinic to that area recently.

To ensure that Guyana’s National Songs are promoted, based on the vision of President David Granger, Gaico Construction Inc.

Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited registered a 20.3% jump in after-tax profit for the year 2015 although interest income rose by just 4.77%.

United States diplomatic cables  from 1973 to 1978 have shed  light on Washington’s views on many Guyana developments during that period, notably the controversial 1973 general elections.

Covent Garden on the East Bank Demerara is a laid back community with an average population of 300.

The European Union (EU) yesterday strongly condemned Friday’s string of terror attacks across Paris which have left at least 129 people dead and more than 300 injured.

Supermarket owner Nicholas Harrinandan is now hospitalised after fighting off three men who invaded his Tucberg, New Amsterdam home early yesterday morning.

Two persons were shot at a Coverden, East Bank Demerara sports bar early yesterday morning, during a scuffle between a patron and a policeman who was trying to make an arrest after a disturbance at the nightspot.

Minister of Governance Raphael Trotman, who has responsibility for Natural Resources and the Environment, has directed a miner halt the operation of a dredge in close proximity to Isseneru’s residential area, at Middle Mazaruni, Region Seven.

Miss World Guyana Lisa Punch wings out to Sanya, China on Friday, where she will join contestants from around the world to vie for the coveted Miss World crown and title.

Bail is granted to convicts once the presiding judge or magistrate is able to satisfy him/herself that an appeal hearing will be successful, according to retired Chancellor of the Judiciary Cecil Kennard.

About two-thirds of projects funded via the Amerindian Development Fund (ADF) did not achieve their objectives and Minister of Indigenous Peoples Affairs Sydney Allicock says the ministry is working to build management capacity to rectify the problems.

In the seven months since they have been appointed, the four independent investigators at the Police Complaints Authority (PCA) have so far looked at 206 complaints made against police ranks including corruption, using unnecessary violence and neglect of duty.

Aside from the impoliteness of local officials being kept waiting for four hours for the arrival of Zambian President Kenneth Kaunda in April of 1975, a US diplomatic cable related what it saw as a creeping merger of the party and the state which saw the PNC flag flying on all government ministries and the Guyana Court of Appeal building.