A man and woman found with 30 grammes of cannabis at their Broad Street, Charlestown home were yesterday remanded to prison by Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Minister of Agriculture Dr Leslie Ramsammy recently met with the Tapakuma village council in Region Two and representatives of the Inter-American Institute for Cooperation on Agriculture (IICA) to discuss plans to expand the cassava industry and restart operations at the village’s cassava processing factory.
AFC MP Trevor Williams has submitted a series of questions to Culture Minister Dr Frank Anthony about the operations of the Caribbean Press publishing house, for written answers at the upcoming sitting of the National Assembly next Thursday.
The Food Policy Division of the Ministry of Health will be observing Nutrition Awareness Week with a health fair on Main Street and several workplace programmes aimed at focusing attention on the importance of making healthy food choices.
President Donald Ramotar this evening in a national address described the opposition’s defeat of two matters related to the Amaila Falls Hydropower Project as an act of terrorism against the development of Guyana.
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AFC MP Trevor Williams has submitted a series of questions to Culture Minister Dr Frank Anthony about the local publishing house, Caribbean Press which are down for Parliament’s Order Paper on July 25 according to a Notice Paper.
(Barbados Nation) Police have formally charged Guyanese national, Feroze Rafikh, age 42 years, of 2nd Avenue Amity Lodge, Christ Church for the offence of murder in relation to the stabbing death of Tito Gill, which occurred on 17 July 2013.
By Johann Earle
Last evening’s rejection of a bill and debt motion by the opposition has been described by the government as the “funeral” of the ambitious US$840M Amaila Falls Hydropower Project.
GuySuCo has announced that the Skeldon factory will start processing canes on August 5, more than a week after its scheduled start, due to “extremely wet conditions” at the estate.
“We are prepared to wait until hell freezes over,” House Speaker Raphael Trotman declared, after Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud yesterday remained silent when asked to take the reins on the four local government bills brought back to the National Assembly.
By Shakisa Harvey
Almost eight years after 13-year-old Trishanna Debidayal was struck down at a pedestrian crossing on her way home from school, her mother laments the painful reality that instead of celebrating her 21st birthday today with her in the flesh, she is left to reflect on memories.
The reconstruction of the One-Mile Primary School, Linden is at a stand-still as government has not yet released the $60 million it promised for the project and other major backers have pulled out because the government was welcomed on-board.
Two cousins yesterday found themselves in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on charges of attacking each other and one of them answered a separate charge for allegedly assaulting his grandmother.
With the presentation of a generator by the Weldaad Station Management Committee (WSMC), the Weldaad Police Station is now equipped to deal with blackouts.
The Ministry of Home Affairs has said stakeholders have identified a number of criminal ‘hot spots’ and have advised the police to find an appropriate response to address the recent spike in armed robberies and other violent crime.
Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry yesterday issued a call for better security in the courtrooms and the compound of the current Georgetown Magistrates’ Court complex.
The trial of James Anthony Hyles called ‘Sally,’ and Mark Royden Williams, called ‘Smallie,’ the duo accused of the 2008 Lusignan Massacre continued yesterday before Justice Navindra Singh in the High Court with a second voir dire.