The PPP yesterday labelled APNU leader David Granger’s recent warning about the country’s youth unemployment levels “incredulous” after the coalition’s vote against the Amaila Falls Hydropower project, which it said could have led to more job opportunities.
A man who said he pulled out a knife because he was annoyed at having to travel in an overloaded minibus was yesterday remanded to prison when he appeared in the Georgetown Magistrates Court.
The PPP is standing by the President Donald Ramotar’s refusal to assent to two opposition bills, while questioning APNU’s failure to move to the courts if it believes he has acted illegally.
Oma Devi Nanku, a student of Bygeval Secondary School has topped Region Five at this year’s Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations with passes in12 subjects, including six distinctions, one grade one and five grade twos.
At about 1545h today Ryan Persaud, 14 years, of Vive La Force, WBD, was standing on the roadway at Vive La Force when he was struck to his back by a bullet, police say.
The Guyana Human Rights Association today condemned the detention by police of anti-human trafficking campaigner, Simona Broomes, accusing the force of harassing her.
The PPP today said arguments by Opposition Leader David Granger that youth unemployment was a “ticking time bomb” were incredulous and it said that had the Amaila hydropower project gone ahead more jobs would have been created by companies attracted by cheaper energy.
Diamond businesswoman Sirmattie Ramnaress was security conscious and would always check her closed-circuit cameras before letting anyone in, deepening the mystery as to how someone got into her heavily fortified premises, murdered her and set her house ablaze.
Fire Chief Marlon Gentle yesterday said that an unattended candle was the cause of the fire which killed two children on Joseph Pollydore Street two Sundays ago.
A Berbice woman, fearful that her abusive husband would carry out his threat to kill her, attempted to end her life on Thursday evening and now says she has had enough and wants out of the relationship.
Minister of Works Robeson Benn says that his ministry has had possession of Customs House on Main Street since the Guyana Revenue Authority relocated to its Camp Street Complex last year.
Attorney-at-law Joseph Harmon who once headed the now defunct Juncata Juvant Friendly Society believes that it is the responsibility of the relevant government ministries to set up a system to help deportees who are made outcasts by society and often associated with negative activities.
Norway will help South Sudan build a hydropower plant with work expected to start early next year and this has raised the question as to whether there is hope at all that it might be interested in helping Guyana in this arena.
Rice farmers and drivers who traverse the five-mile Burma Road in Region Five say that contractors continue to take the awards for the roads and deliver sub-par works, even as the Region Five administration has said that the maintenance is being stalled by the inclement weather, among other reasons.
The Alliance for Change (AFC) considers government’s decision to discontinue the Berbice River Ferry service 20 years ago the catalyst for the increased cost of living and unemployment which now prevails in the Berbice River area.
E-Networks celebrated its 10th anniversary since entering the ICT industry on Friday at the Georgetown Club and several new services were introduced to customers, GINA said.
Fire this afternoon gutted the living quarters above Da Silva’s House of Optics on Middle Street leaving severe water damage in the lower flat housing the optical service.