President David Granger will soon begin consideration of the third list of nominees for the post of Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission (Gecom) submitted by opposition leader Bharrat Jagdeo, Minister of State Joseph Harmon said yesterday.
A father of three is now dead while another person is critically injured after a car collided with a motorcycle along the Better Hope Public Road, East Coast Demerara on Sunday evening.
The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) has officially launched an investigation to identify the cause of Sunday’s fatal plane crash, which claimed the life of Air Services Limited (ASL) pilot Imran Khan.
Feroze Khan, a father of seven of Yarrowkabra, Soesdyke-Linden Highway, died during the wee hours of Sunday morning after an accident along the Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara Public Road.
General Manager of the Mahaica, Mahaicony, Abary/Agricultural Development Authority (MMA/ADA) Aubrey Charles yesterday testified that as far as he knows, the Abary Cattle Ranchers Association had never raised any issue with regards to compensation for land lost.
Another motorcyclist lost his life yesterday after colliding with a truck along the Airy Hall Public Road, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara (ECD) as he made his way home from Suriname.
Mayor Patricia Chase-Green yesterday announced that a special council meeting for discussions on the city’s suspended metered parking project will be held on September 7.
Widening and improvement of the East Coast Public Road between Better Hope and Belfield is expected to begin today at the price of US$47m.
Three weeks have passed since the Guyana Police Force announced a $10 million reward for information leading to the arrest of four remaining prison escapees but acting Commissioner of Police David Ramnarine yesterday said that the inmates are still under the radar.
The Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) is inviting sealed bids for the purchase of 42 motor vehicles on an as is/where is basis.
Two large contracts have been awarded by the Ministry of Agriculture for the purchase of excavators and bulldozers.
With the start of the new school year approaching, the Schools Welfare Department in Region 3 yesterday presented 20 students with book bags and school supplies.
An autopsy has confirmed that Abdool Wahab Khan, the handyman whose lifeless body was discovered along the Vryheid’s Lust roadway on Sunday morning, died as a result of multiple injuries caused by an accident.
A police constable on sick leave was on Sunday placed under close arrest after he was found gambling with persons of ill repute under a shed in Den Amstel, West Coast Demerara.
Despite the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI) repairing part of Agriculture Road, residents of Mon Repos and the surrounding areas, who regularly ply the main thoroughfare, say that the “most deplorable” parts have not been fixed and they are calling on the authorities to complete the entire road.
A Coroner’s Inquest into the death of Sew Persaud, who was reportedly struck down last year August along the Diamond Public Road, commenced yesterday with evidence from two police witnesses.
A man was yesterday granted his release on bail after he denied fraudulently obtaining $15,000 in alcoholic beverages.
Two Laing Avenue residents were placed on $100,000 bail each on Friday after denying a simple larceny charge.
Sporting an unusual hairstyle, Campbellville resident Milton Griffith yesterday told a city court that the police arrested him in the middle of his haircut on a trumped up drug charge.
A vendor was brought before a city magistrate last Friday on a charge that he shot at another man.
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