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Outgoing acting Chief Justice Ian Chang has adjourned the challenges brought by former presidents Bharrat Jagdeo and Donald Ramotar to the law enacted to cap their benefits as former heads of state.
A 12-member jury yesterday convicted Murchy Noorhan for engaging in sexual activities with a family member who was also a minor.
The Mayor and City Council in collaboration with Ministry of Public Infrastructure will soon be implementing a new queue system at all bus parks in Georgetown to reduce the daily chaos and congestion.
Students of the newly-certified Air Services Limited (ASL) Aeronautical Engineering School are undergoing training under the supervision of Caribbean Airlines (CAL) to enhance their knowledge of the workings of large pressurised planes.
Four men appeared in the Whim Magistrate’s Court charged in connection with the assault and attempted robbery of a Liverpool Village grocery owner and were refused bail.
A Werk-en-Rust youth has been ordered to reimburse his friend $50,000 for a medical bill after a cuff to the face he inflicted fractured a bone under the man’s right eye.
Caribbean Agricultural Research and Development Institute (CARDI) scientists are presently in Guyana networking with stakeholders involved in the European Union (EU)-financed four-year “Coconut Industry Development for the Caribbean” project.
A Brooklyn, New York jury has ordered Delta Airlines to pay US$759,000 ($158m) in damages to a Guyana-born security guard who was arrested after a baggage handler planted cocaine in his suitcase, the New York Daily News reported on Thursday.
The promise of visa-free travel to Canada landed a Lusignan taxi driver before a city court, where he was fined $30,000 yesterday on a conspiracy to commit fraud charge.
A carpenter is now hospitalised in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was struck by a minibus yesterday afternoon.
A hit-and-run accident at Bolam, East Coast Berbice on Tuesday has left a cane cutter in the Georgetown Public Hospital nursing multiple fractures to his arm and leg.
An accident along the Harlem Public Road, West Coast Demerara (WCD) on Thursday evening has left three persons injured.
A Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara (WCD) shop owner was beaten and robbed during the wee hours of Wednesday morning, when two armed men invaded his house.
Just months after passing key amendments to the anti-money laundering law, following a bitter three-year battle, the APNU+AFC administration is moving to make more changes.
An Albousytown cart man was yesterday remanded to prison to await trial after he was charged with robbing a woman of hundreds of thousands of dollars in diamonds and other items.
A horse cart operator was yesterday remanded to prison after being read charges of armed robbery and possession of cannabis.
The management of Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has launched an internal investigation into disruptions of the utility company’s Information and Communications Technology (ICT) network.
A Dowding Street, Kitty woman was yesterday remanded to prison after she appeared before a city court for possession of cannabis for trafficking.
The government of Mexico under the VI Mexico-Caricom Cooperation Programme 2014-2015 has commenced a two-week intermediate Spanish course in Guyana for more than 30 teachers of the language within the region.
(Reuters) – Australia captain Steve Smith enforced the follow-on after West Indies were dismissed for 223, a first innings deficit of 360 runs, early on the third day of the first test at Hobart today.
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