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Thirteen police and customs officers underwent training over the previous five days in how to detect fraudulent documents at ports of entry, among other areas, in a drive to tighten security.
The main opposition APNU yesterday sounded a warning over youth unemployment, saying that the country is sitting on a “time bomb” and charging that the government’s delay in dealing with the “jobs crisis” could have dire consequences.
A man was on Thursday charged with the murder of Mahaica farmer Omadat Persaud, after ballistics tests on bullets recovered at the scene and from the man’s body allegedly linked him to the crime.
A businessman was yesterday refused bail and remanded to prison after being charged with conspiring to defraud a bank of $75M.
A minibus driver was yesterday charged with causing the death of a man who succumbed to injuries months after he was struck by him.
A former prison officer was yesterday charged with assaulting an eight month-old-child and threatening his 19-year-old stepson.
An unidentified man was found dead with injuries about his body along the Little Diamond Public Road, East Bank Demerara early yesterday morning.
The Caribbean Sex Workers Coalition (CSWC), a regional collective of sex worker-led civil society organisations and sex worker advocates, is calling on Caribbean states to end discrimination against sex workers, recognise transgender people and create laws to protect them from stigma and discrimination.
Guyanese doctors who recently returned from Cuba and who have not been registered with the Medical Council of Guyana are being asked to produce the requisite certificates to facilitate their registration before they are assigned to posts across the country.
The Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) yesterday announced that it will run off a new cycle of Continuous Registration, running from Monday, September 2nd, 2013 to November 23rd, 2013.
The Ministry of Culture in collaboration with the Walter Roth Museum of Anthropology yesterday launched this year’s Amerindian Heritage Month and Culture Minister Dr.
A number of local Muslim organisations are holding a ‘Peace and Solidarity Walk and Rally’ today to pray for peace and unity of the Muslim Ummah (Global Muslim Nation) and to call for an end of the bloodshed and massacre of innocent people, especially children in Syria, Egypt, Burma, Palestine and other countries plagued by sectarian conflicts.
The renovation of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court Complex, ongoing for more than two years, is scheduled to be completed within a few days, Minister of legal Affairs Anil Nandlall has said.
Local theatre aficionados will soon be treated to a performance of ‘Deaf Expressions’ by members of Deaf Theatre Guyana, who recently returned from performing at Carifesta XI in Suriname.
The Caribbean Examinations Council (CXC) has announc-ed the appointment of Dr Charles Mayenga of Kenya as the Senior Assistant Registrar for the Examinations Deve-lopment and Production Division.
PANAMA CITY, (Reuters) – A son of Suriname’s president has been arrested in Panama and sent to New York to face charges of smuggling cocaine into the United States, U.S.
Qualfon will on Wednesday have a groundbreaking ceremony for what it is describing as one of the world’s largest contact centres and which it says will bring an estimated 6,000 jobs to the country.
The proposed contractor for the CJIA airport expansion is now embroiled in a controversy in Jamaica over plans for a shipping hub in an environmentally sensitive area, underlining concerns in the region about the lack of transparency in dealings with big Chinese firms backed by Beijing.
Creditinfo Guyana was yesterday licensed as the country’s first ever credit bureau and Bank of Guyana (BoG) Governor Lawrence Williams said it will usher in an era where the lack of collateral will no longer be a barrier to citizens and businesses trying to access credit financing.
Guyana and China yesterday signed an agreement which will see China providing $50 million Renminbi ($1.7B or US$8.2 million) in grant financing.
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