Nations student gets three years for trafficking ecstasy
A School of the Nations student was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail after he pleaded guilty to trafficking ecstasy pills.
A School of the Nations student was yesterday sentenced to three years in jail after he pleaded guilty to trafficking ecstasy pills.
Sheneza Jafarally, the University of Guyana (UG) student who was remanded to prison more than two weeks ago after being accused of making a bomb threat that disrupted classes and operations at the Turkeyen Campus, was yesterday granted $10,000 bail in the High Court.
The relatives of an overseas-based Guyanese who died in Berbice earlier this month, have called on the police to launch an investigation into his death as they claim that before he succumbed, he had told his siblings that he was beaten.
Days after surviving a plane crash, pilot Lincoln Gomez yesterday recounted the events surrounding the crash behind the Canal No.2 Conservancy area, West Bank Demerara.
A nursing student has been charged with bullying a friend using a fake Facebook profile.
The Attorney General’s Chambers has corrected the errors in the two summonses filed on his behalf as part of the appeals of two of the judgements delivered by Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire on the validity of the no confidence vote against government.
The Ministry of Agriculture through the Rural Agricultural Infrastructure Development Project (RAID) yesterday commissioned a Pump Station and Sluice at Herstelling, East Bank Demerara.
In what will be seen as a veiled reference to the ongoing controversy here following the December 21, 2018 passage of a motion of no-confidence against the government, US President Donald Trump’s Republic message referred to the “future direction” of the country and its honouring of democratic governance and institutions.
President David Granger has urged Guyanese to unite and says the country eagerly anticipates the transformational economic change which will accrue from the green economy and the emerging petroleum sector.
A man was fined yesterday after pleading guilty to stealing underwear and possession of a dangerous weapon.
An imbroglio relating to the financing of the Local Government Commission (LGC) has been resolved with the Ministry of Finance approving the LGC’s 2019 work programme and releasing funds for the payment of January expenses including the salaries and emoluments for staff and commissioners.
The charred remains of Captain Randy Liverpool, the pilot who was killed in a plane crash at Eteringbang, Region Seven on Thursday afternoon, was brought to the city yesterday and the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) said an investigation is underway to determine the cause of the crash.
A government team yesterday met with striking bauxite workers at Maple Town, Aroaima and Secretary of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union (GB&GWU) Leslie Junor says that the workers hope that the issues including the reinstatement of 60 who were fired, can be resolved by Monday.
The Barima/Waini area in Region One saw maternal deaths fall by 50 per cent last year.
A long-simmering feud between Upper Corentyne rice and cattle farmers turned deadly last weekend after six cows were shot and killed.
(Jamaica Gleaner) The Mona Law Society at The University of the West Indies (UWI), Mona, has come under fire from at least one senior member of the law fraternity for the posting of photographs of some female law students in skimpy clothing on its Instagram social media page.
Rayon Angel, the 32-year-old labourer whose partially decomposed body was found in his Grove, East Bank Demerara (EBD) house on Wednesday, died as a result of heart failure.
Minister of Social Cohesion Dr George Norton has undertaken to replace the generator that is used to power Aishalton, in Region Nine, after being told of the effects of multiple mechanical failures.
The Technical Vocational Education and Training (TVET) programmes being offered in regions One and Seven are set to be improved with the signing of a $114 million contract between the Ministry of Education (MoE) and the Caribbean Engineering and Management Consultants Inc.
(Trinidad Guardian) Two Russian cargo aeroplanes, one of which arrived at the Piarco International Airport on Thursday and the other here for almost a month, have raised concerns among immigration and airport officials.
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