Guyana News

President Donald Ramotar lauded the contributions in aviation made by pilot, Captain Debbie Gouveia at a ceremony held to unveil a stamp in her honour on Saturday.

The Indian Education Trust College/Richard Ishmael Secondary Old Students Association presented a computer and a number of trophies to the school, on two separate occasions last week.

A night of revelry resulted in two men being fined for noise nuisance and a third man being placed on $20,000 bail yesterday.

Bail was yesterday set at $150,000 for Kurt Heligar after he was arraigned on three charges, including threatening his sister and assaulting a police officer.

Inspections carried out at the worksite of the City Food Court, where at least four men were injured after falling from a building under construction on Monday, have revealed an absence of protective gear, according to a source at the Ministry of Labour.

The Ministry of Health has commended midwives from the 10 administrative regions for their “invaluable service” to the health sector and has advised them about new strategies to improve maternal health.

Argentina has bestowed the Grand Cross of the Order of the General Liberator of San Martin upon Minister of Foreign Affairs Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett.

Patients and health care workers at the Fort Wellington Hospital are pleased with the launching of a water treatment plant, a new diabetic foot clinic and the rehabilitation centre.

Increased intervention from government is necessary to ensure independent living for those with disabilities.

Faced with two charges of threatening language against two men, Odel Drakes, 27, apparently agreed that honesty was indeed the best policy when he admitted to his crimes at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.

Next year’s Carib Soca Monarch Competition promises to be bigger and better than ever before thanks to efforts by ANSA McAL to nurture musicians through a two-day workshop.

Trade officials from the European Union (EU) and Cariforum held a one-day meeting in Grenada on November 21 at which they reaffirmed the two regions’ commitment to their trade and development partnership.

At about 1225h today, police say that Fenton Duncan, 48 years of Roxanne Burnham Gardens; and Sherry Ramroop, 38 years of Eccles, EBD, were at a car wash on Mandela Avenue, Georgetown, when they were held up by a man armed with a handgun.

(Barbados Nation) Domestic violence has claimed the life of a sixth woman this year.

Guyana ranked a very poor 27 out of 100 points in the Transparency International 2013 Corruption Perceptions Index (CPI).

The case against Hytilall Ramandahin was yesterday dismissed after the magistrate found that he was not grossly negligent in the Pomeroon River accident that took the lives of six people on December 18, 2012.

At least four men are today nursing mild to no-so-mild injuries after they fell from the third to the second floor of the City Food Court which is currently under construction at the intersection of Camp and Robb streets.

Brian Leitch, also known as ‘Big Foot,’ was yesterday charged with the murder of hotelier Joseph Jagdeo, whose phone police say he stole and later sold to a woman.

The Public Accounts Committee (PAC) yesterday agreed to set up a sub-committee which will examine and make recommendations on the criteria for nominees to the PPC as well as the processes that prelude the setting up of the body as PAC members seek to gain some ground.