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The Anamayah Memorial Hospital, a private medical facility in Berbice, has filed a $100M libel suit against AFC Councillor Donna Mathoo over statements she made during a television broadcast about the safety of the hospital’s medication.
The tragedies of the mentally unstable wandering the country’s streets and the continuing domestic violence murders and suicides point to a mental health crisis that is largely being ignored by the government and private organisations, says the founder of the Guyana Foundation Supriya Bodden.
The search for oil by Nabi Oil and Gas Inc, a new entrant to the petroleum exploration industry, at Mahaica/Mahaicony appears to have come to a standstill.
Ganesh Narine, on trial for knifing his wife to death, was yesterday set free in the High Court by Justice Navindra Singh.
The Ministry of Public Works will be installing six geotextile tubes along the Kingston to Kitty sea defence to form a groyne field as part of its 2014 Sea Defence Programme.
Buxton resident and PPP stalwart Edmund Forde, 93, is now the owner of a two-bedroom house constructed as one of three recently completed building projects by the First Lady’s Foundation.
By Kenesha Fraser The Region Two (Pomeroon/ Supenaam) yesterday held its Bi-Annual Math, Science and Technology Fair at the Anna Regina Secondary School.
The organisers of the Reading and Explanation Competition, which concluded yesterday in Berbice, have dubbed the inaugural event a success.
Digicel on Thursday donated a quantity of Phagwah powder and an undisclosed sum of money to the Guyana Hindu Dharmic Sabha as part of its annual contribution for the upcoming Phagwah events, the company said in a press release.
An allegation that a teacher from the Belladrum Secondary School had beaten a student last Friday and fractured his finger was found to be false, an investigation conducted by the Department of Education in Region Five has found.
A lone gunman, who attempted to rob a woman at gunpoint in ‘C’ Field, Sophia yesterday was shot in his shoulder and midsection by police after he opened fire on them.
The duo accused of the murder of Lakeram Bishundial, who was fatally shot during a robbery at Hope, East Coast Demerara in 2010, will have to face a retrial after the jury yesterday failed to reach a unanimous verdict.
Ex-convict Devon Rodney will spend another stint in prison after he admitted to breaking into an establishment and stealing over $150,000 worth of items.
Accused of stealing $400 from a fellow ex-convict during a mugging, Orlando Lawrence was yesterday placed on $100,000 bail.
A Linden businessman and Justice of the Peace has been charged with damaging the property of a tenant, who has accused him of throwing faeces into her home.
Magistrate Clive Nurse sentenced a 30-year-old man to nine months jail after he admitted the charge of simple larceny when he appeared in the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court.
Four young men from the East Coast Demerara were further remanded to prison when they made their second appearance in the Christianburg Magistrate’s Court on Tuesday, charged with several counts of burglary.
A trader, who claimed he accepted a BlackBerry Torch smartphone as collateral from a man who owed him money, yesterday found himself answering a charge of receiving stolen property.
The body of Guyanese national Onicka Malicia Gulliver, who had been missing since Tuesday in Barbados, was found yesterday.
A Guyanese man fell to his death on Thursday while working on a house in California, Trinidad and Tobago.
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