Days after President Bharrat Jagdeo instructed GECOM’s Chairman Dr Steve Surujbally to resign as Chairman of the Guyana Livestock Development Authority, the AFC has added its voice to the issue stating that the latter appointment was unconstitutional.
Guyanese Yashoda Ramlal last week told a Connecticut, US court that she heard a “pop” and saw her ex-fiance and murder accused Parasurama `Andrew’ Rabindranauth stuffing a gun into his sweatshirt.
(BBC) Jamaica has named a new international airport for private jets and small commercial aircraft after the British thriller writer who invented James Bond, the literary and cinematic super spy.
(De Ware Tijd) – Since the registration of those involved in the small-scale gold sector started on Monday, more than 2700 people have registered at the different posts.
(De Ware Tijd) – Suriname will soon recognize the Palestinian state.
Following a strike by some mini-bus operators yesterday, hundreds of stranded commuters were last evening taken to their destinations free of cost by the Ministry of Transport and Hydraulics.
City Mayor Hamilton Green yesterday referred to the claims of the government hijacking the plans for the Year of African-descended people as “a bit exaggerated,” and he insists that a lack of trust is fuelling the disagreement.
A Guyanese man was last week sentenced to two years in prison by a Canadian judge for a motor vehicle accident that left a four-year-old boy disabled.
More than 30 vendors recently placed outside Demico House were ordered to move again yesterday as police said they were operating illegally.
Three months after vendors of the La Penitence Market submitted a proposal for potential sites for their relocation, the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is now moving to settle the issue.
Businessman Hareshnarine Sugrim, who turned himself in days after police issued a wanted bulletin for him, has been released on station bail and he is still to be charged.
The Public Utilities Commission (PUC) has approved a new interconnection agreement between telecommunications providers, Guyana Telephone and Telegraph and Digicel.
A woman was yesterday charged with trying to sell a house illegally.
Paul Smith, accused of resisting arrest as well as insulting and assaulting two police officers, was yesterday placed on $20,000 bail by acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
Two men accused of robbing a man of a cellular phone and a quantity of cash were on Monday admitted to bail in the sum of $65,000.
The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has been approved as the delivery partner through which Guyana will access grants from the World Bank’s Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF).
The Lions Club of Bel Air started off its annual project-per-day exercise held in honour of its anniversary, with breakfast for 17 residents of the Vincent de Paul Home.
Many CARICOM countries have not implemented programmes in the regional agricultural strategy, the Jagdeo Initiative, and with rising prices for food globally they will face a problem with food prices and inflation, President Bharrat Jagdeo has said.
A Kwakwani man accused by the police of having a quantity of cannabis in his possession was on Tuesday remanded to prison after appearing before acting Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry.
RIO DE JANEIRO, (Reuters) – Floods and landslides devastated several mountain towns near Rio de Janeiro yesterday, killing at least 257 people as torrents of water and mud swept through the region, burying many families as they slept.
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