The body of Ravin Piper, the boy who went missing along with his father after the boat they were travelling in collided with another in the Moruca River, North West District, between Friday evening and Saturday morning, was found early yesterday.
A Soesdyke resident died after he was struck down early yesterday morning by an intoxicated driver, along the Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara (EBD) roadway.
An overseas-based Guyanese teenager died in a horrific accident in New York yesterday morning while he was on his way home.
Stating that it could see no basis for preferential treatment to convicted Guyanese businessman, Ed Ahmad, a New York court has given the US government up to Thursday to state its position on Ahmad’s request to serve his two-year sentence in a minimum security facility.
The Sheet Anchor man who was accused of beating and killing his wife in June was yesterday found hanging from a tree along the Berbice River.
Local cell phone service provider, Digicel is set to significantly scale down staff here by year end with some employees already having accepted severance packages offered, sources close to the company say.
Works on the Lusignan Prison to accommodate inmates from the gutted Camp Street jail are almost complete and the facility would be handed over to the Guyana Prison Service today, a statement from the Ministry of Public Security said last night.
Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday contended that the results of a feasibility study into the sugar industry would differ from what the government is telling the citizens of the country, that is that the sugar industry is no longer profitable.
The University of Guyana (UG) and the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT), after launching Money Mobile Guyana (MMG) last month for students to make easy tuition payments, on Friday signed a Memorandum of Understanding to solidify the deal.
SANTO DOMINGO, (Reuters) – Tens of thousands of protesters flooded the streets of the capital of the Dominican Republic yesterday in the biggest demonstration of anger over corruption in decades following a landmark bribery case against top officials.
The Caribbean Film Academy (CAFA), together with EPIC Guyana, took a snippet of the recently concluded 2017 Caribbean Film Festival to the detainees of the Sophia Juvenile Detention Centre with screenings of Sunday and Art Connect.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Secret Service yesterday denied a suggestion from President Donald Trump’s personal lawyer that it had vetted a meeting between the president’s son and Russian nationals during the 2016 campaign.
So high was the quality of artwork submitted to the Guyana Visual Arts Competition and Exhibition (GVACE) that the judges required an extra day to decide on the winners, Chairman of the organizing committee Alim Hosein has said.
(Trinidad Express) Spiteful. That’s how former executive chairman of CL Financial (CLF) Lawrence Duprey views Government’s decision to apply to the High Court to wind up the conglomerate.
(Reuters) – Martin Landau, a talented and prolific character actor who achieved TV stardom in “Mission: Imposs-ible” and won an Oscar for his portrayal of a washed-up Bela Lugosi in the sweetly bizarre 1994 film “Ed Wood,” has died at age 89.
(Trinidad Guardian) Prime Minister Dr Keith Rowley and Opposition Leader Kamla Persad-Bissessar will discuss campaign finance reform, internal self government for Tobago and the Integrity Commission, among other matters when they meet tomorrow.
Spain’s Ambassador to Guyana Javier Carbajosa and its Secretary of State for International Cooperation and Latin America Fernando Garcia Casas on Thursday night visited the Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre, where they interacted with the children and were treated to a tour of the facility.
CARACAS, (Reuters) – Gunmen in Venezuela shot into a crowd of voters today, activists said, killing one woman and wounding three others during an unofficial referendum organized by the opposition to push for an end to two decades of socialist rule.
Joint Services ranks and a Guyana Defence Force helicopter are engaged in an operation near the D’Urban Backlands area in Georgetown.
The Police say they are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 03:00h this morning on the Soesdyke Public Road, East Bank Demerara, involving motor car PVV 1923 and pedestrian Chandrapaul Persaud, 47,of 53 Soesdyke, East Bank Demerara.
The ePaper edition, on the Web & in stores for Android, iPhone & iPad.
Included free with your web subscription. Learn more.
