News

The Ministry of Public Infrastructure is inviting bids for the construction of a sidewalk on Woolford Avenue between Vlissengen Road and Albert Street.

Multi-million dollar tenders were opened yesterday for the procurement of Computer Tomography CT scanners for the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).

Minister of Business, Dominic Gaskin, during a walk-about in the Stabroek Market on Monday met with stallholders to hear  the concerns of businesses operating within the market.

A teenager is at a city hospital after he was shot on Monday during an argument at Kuru Kururu, Linden Highway while on his way to visit a friend.

Anand Narine, the ex-husband of murdered woman Babita Sarjou, and his alleged accomplice Darrol Campton returned to court yesterday, where it was heard that the prosecution is still awaiting advice from the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) on how to proceed with the matter.

The body of Barbara Hunte who went missing on Saturday after the boat she was in capsized in the Puruni River, Region 7, was recovered by a search party on Monday afternoon.

Efforts by the Ministry of Agriculture to educate farmers on how to combat the Black Sigatoka disease is having a positive impact with many now able to contain the fungus resulting in bountiful plantain harvests which has caused a drop in the price of the crop on the local market.

A young couple lost their home on Monday night when a fire, suspected to be of electrical origin, gutted their two-storey wooden house, located at Lot 102 Section G, Nigg, Corentyne.

The man accused of robbing retired British soldier Edward John Constant, yesterday claimed that his arrest was a case of mistaken identity.

A fisherman charged with breaking and entering a home and stealing over $500,000 in items, yesterday denied committing the offence and said he was in prison at the time.

Six hospitals were on Monday conferred with Baby-Friendly Hospital Status, according to a release from the Ministry of Public Health yesterday.

A team of experts from the Mexican Petroleum Institute (IMP) is in Guyana for talks on the provision of technical support in developing Guyana’s emerging oil and gas sector.

With the aim of reducing the stigma and ignorance surrounding epilepsy here, the Epilepsy Foundation of Guyana is hoping to begin educating teachers and students about the condition and how to deal with it in schools.

Following a string of successes in his academic pursuits, Guyanese scholar Daniel Ram has set his sights on finding a vaccine for HIV which he believes could be developed in a decade’s time.

The University of Guyana has received a cheque from the Baveghems family  to sustain the Eusi Kwayana award for the next three years.

Taxi driver Gladwyn Brandis, who was beaten and robbed almost two weeks ago during a reported carjacking, has been discharged from the hospital even as police are yet to apprehend the perpetrators.

Requests to the Region Nine administration for food aid by villages in sections of the Rupununi may soon go unfulfilled as current supplies diminish due to mounting demands, Regional Chairman Bryan Allicock says.

WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – U.S. senators pushed for a compromise gun control bill yesterday, a day after the Senate failed to advance four gun measures following last week’s mass shooting in Orlando, the deadliest in modern U.S.

MUMBAI,  (Reuters) – Bollywood movie star Salman Khan ran afoul of a national women’s group, film critics and Twitter users yesterday after saying that training sessions for his new film made him feel like a “raped woman”.

CARACAS/WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – The U.S. government sent veteran diplomat Tom Shannon to Venezuela yesterday to meet senior opposition and government figures amid a brutal economic crisis and political impasse in the South American OPEC nation.