(Trinidad Guardian) Six small casino owners have decided to immediately close down their businesses and send home their workers due to the announcement of an increase in gaming taxes by Finance Minister Colm Imbert.
“Cowboy behaviour” is how a man, accused of stealing two motorbikes, described the work of the officers who arrested him, to a city magistrate yesterday.
MOSCOW, (Reuters) – Russia is quietly boosting economic support for North Korea to try to stymie any U.S.-led
Noting that Chief Justice Roxane George’s ruling does not prohibit him from choosing a `fit and proper’ person for GECOM Chairperson, President David Granger said today that he is still studying the list of nominees and intends to meet Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo in the near future.
Rape accused Dellon Blake, 35, has escaped from Holding Bay 2 at the Lusignan Prison.
A Port Kaituma businessman was shot dead last evening in circumstances that are still being investigated, Commander of F Division Ravindranauth Budhram said this morning.
(Trinidad Guardian) Six small casino owners have decided to immediately close down their businesses and send home their workers due to the announcement of an increase in gaming taxes by Finance Minister Colm Imbert.
Two elderly women were found dead, bound and gagged in their beds, at their South Road and Albert Street house yesterday morning, following a suspected robbery.
Two youth were yesterday charged with the murder of Fazal Shaheed, who was fatally shot during a robbery at a Freeman Street residence just over a week ago.
Members of the Commission of Inquiry (CoI) into African ancestral land matters, yesterday made it explicitly clear that their mandate does not include dispossessing anyone of their land.
General Manager of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), Holly Greaves says that steps have to be taken to secure the future of the Scheme in light of the varied challenges it faces.
Tiffini Tricia Collison, the woman who is accused of trying to mail four hammocks suspected to have been saturated with cocaine, was yesterday charged with drug trafficking.
Garfield Parker, the Tabatinga, Lethem minibus driver who was held after nearly 55 pounds of ganja and a quantity of cocaine were found aboard his vehicle last Saturday, is now a remanded prisoner after being charged with possession of the drugs for trafficking.
The Government of the Kingdom of Norway has said the “ball is in Guyana’s court” to produce a renewable energy transition plan that is a prerequisite for the release of US$80 million in payments for forest services being held for the country by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB).
Mainstay/Whyaka on the Essequibo Coast will soon benefit from an upgraded airstrip and road, according to the Department of Public Information (DPI).
To commemorate the international days of Democracy and Universal Access to Information, the University of Guyana (UG) yesterday unveiled a mural, which it has dubbed the “Democracy Wall.”
Six containers of supplies, worth nearly $20 million, were yesterday sent off to Dominica, as part of continuing efforts by the local private sector to assist the hurricane-battered islands.
A caterer was granted bail yesterday after she was accused of defrauding a man of $1.6 million for land she was in no position to sell.
Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Karen Cummings on September 27 commissioned the recently installed Intensive Care Unit (ICU) at the Bartica regional hospital.
The Guyana Bauxite & General Workers Union (GB&GWU) yesterday said it recorded 93% of the votes cast to win the recognition poll over the National Mines Workers Union at the Bauxite Company of Guyana Incorporated (BCGI).
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