Guyana News

The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) today advertised for expressions of interest in designing a new headquarters for it at Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara.

Two teenagers lost their lives on Tuesday night when the car they were in smashed into the concrete base of an arch on the Number 74 Village Public Road, Corentyne, Berbice.

“Absolutely not! It’s the law and I am only adhering to the law…the next thing they will ask me is they don’t want to pay taxes,” Minister of Public Security Khemraj Ramjattan yesterday said in rejecting a call by the Private Sector Commission (PSC) to ease the 2am curfew to 4am on weekends and holidays.

Ten micro-entrepreneurs from across the country yesterday received $1M each under a Chilean government-funded programme to start various projects, which, among other things aims to curb hunger in the areas where they live.

Amid a stream of road deaths President David Granger yesterday plugged a three-prong plan to curb the scourge and his Public Infrastructure Minister noted that the burgeoning number of vehicles with little or no increase in road capacity was a critical factor.

An eighty-four-year-old Rose Hall woman was yesterday rescued from her burning house during the mid-morning hours.

A $118m contract was yesterday signed for the renovation of the former Customs House to accommodate the Bureau of Statistics.

The defence yesterday presented closing arguments in the escaping custody and gun and ammunition possession case against Regan Rodrigues.

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation yesterday said that a new born baby fell off the cot on which he was place an hour after his birth on November 3rd and he sustained injuries.

Former High Commissioner to Canada and longtime history teacher at Queen’s College and the University of Guyana, Robert James Moore died on Monday in Ottawa where he lived.

Swami Vidyanandaji Maharaj was remembered yesterday as a holy man who influenced everyone who he came in contact with positively, as hundreds flocked the Cove and John Ashram to pay their last respects.

The trial of the men accused of killing 72-year-old Clementine Fiedtkou-Parris continued yesterday and the caution statement of one of the accused revealed a plot to kill the woman over a land dispute she was engaged in.

A day after a spine-tingling raid on America and Longden streets by gunmen on motor bikes, the police were yesterday working on several leads but no arrest has been made.

Post Offices at Meten-Meer-Zorg and Fellowship both on the West Coast of Demerara were commissioned on November 3rd after rehabilitation.

Hours after bandits stormed a supermarket in Mahaica yesterday and attempted to escape with the owner’s motor vehicle, one was later caught and reportedly badly beaten by residents.

The National Centre for Educational Resource Development (NCERD) hosted a two-day symposium for stakeholders to lay the foundation for the use of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) “as a key driver in re-tooling the education system.”

A man left the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday shackled and in tears after he was refused bail on a charge of robbery with aggravation.

The family of Keith Ross, who was involved in an accident on Tuesday at Number 46 Village, Corentyne yesterday vented their anger at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after there was a delay in a scheduled Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for him.

Two brothers appeared in court yesterday on a joint charge of unlawful wounding of a man, who was also accused of wounding one of them.

ST GEORGE’S, Grenada, CMC – CARICOM Heads of Government have requested an “urgent meeting” with the embattled West Indies Cricket Board, in a move aimed at having the far-reaching recommendations of the Cricket Review Panel report implemented swiftly.