Cabinet has agreed that the ministers of Natural Resources and Finance would engage to examine short and medium-term remedies to enable the Guyana Forestry Commission (GFC) to make outstanding payments to staff, which could include tapping the Contingencies Fund.
Longstanding member of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Dave Danny Jr last evening announced his exit from the party and said he has now pledged his support to the opposition People’s Progressive Party (PPP).
Kopinang in Region Eight was recently added to the list of interior destinations in Guyana to where persons resident in the area can travel or take cargo by air without having to pay Value Added Tax (VAT), joining a list of 53 other interior airstrips that enjoyed such status since February 2017.
An investigation into the accident which occurred in May and left a teen as a patient of the hospital for over two months before he succumbed, is still ongoing.
A 25-year-old resident of Sophia is currently in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was shot on Saturday afternoon, allegedly by a policeman who was attempting to arrest him.
A fisherman was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with raping a woman.
Twenty-nine new US Peace Corps Volunteers were welcomed here at a ceremony yesterday.
An 18-year-old man, who has faced a string of robbery charges in the local courts, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday, charged with another theft and was again granted bail.
The Preliminary Inquiry into the charge against two men, including the operator of Rockies Hotel in Georgetown, accused of plotting to kill a Lethem businessman, continued yesterday with evidence being led by several police witnesses, even as the second accused was granted bail by the High Court.
Two recipients of the Guyana Fund for Cultural and Creative Industries (GFCCI), Leon Saul and Martin Massiah, are both planning on revealing Guyanese talent to the world via a television series and short documentary series respectively with their share of the project funding.
(Barbados Nation) Former Minister of Industry and Commerce Donville Inniss will be in court again tomorrow in the United States.
Two bandits armed with hand guns invaded the Fyrish Village, Corentyne house of an overseas-based Guyanese on Thursday and robbed her and her relatives of valuables.
In acknowledgement of the desire to ‘give back’, former students of the North Georgetown Secondary School (NGSS) yesterday presented their alma mater with 30 computer tablets and accessories.
A Stevedore Housing Scheme resident was yesterday granted bail after he was charged with breaking the leg of another man following a drunken argument.
Romario Baljeet yesterday faced cross-examination in the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the charge against Abdul Imran Khan, who is accused of attempting to murder him in an attack at the Palm Court nightclub.
EL PASO, Texas, (Reuters) – U.S. President Donald Trump met victims and first responders from last weekend’s deadly shootings in Texas and Ohio yesterday, as chanting protesters accused him of inflaming tensions with anti-immigrant and racially charged rhetoric.
A vendor was yesterday sentenced to three years in prison after admitting to a marijuana trafficking charge.
(Jamaica Gleaner) Technology company Mastercard yesterday announced Dalton Fowles as the country manager for Jamaica and Trinidad and Tobago.
Essequibians on July 26th 2019 participated in discussions over the ways in which Guyana’s oil and gas sector would impact society.
SYDNEY, (Reuters) – NATO needs to understand the implications of China’s rise as Beijing expands its power around the world, including areas that may challenge members of the North Atlantic security body, Secretary General Jens Stoltenberg said yesterday.
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