APNU yesterday announced the launch of its campaign for local government elections and coalition leader David Granger said he was confident that the Donald Ramotar administration would sign the outstanding reforms of the system into law.
The United States Embassy in Georgetown hosted the “Entrepreneurship Speed Challenge” for local young aspiring business professionals and students on Tuesday in celebration of Global Entrepreneurship Week (GEW).
A city businessman was up to press time last evening in police custody after he reportedly fired several shots at his wife, a senior police official has confirmed.
A prime plot of land, located between the Guyana Stores and Courts buildings on Main Street, Georgetown is up for sale and the public might soon see another mega store on Main Street as the land is attracting serious interest.
The launch of the Windsor Estates Housing Develop-ment was welcomed by Prime Minister Samuel Hinds as yet another example of how far housing sector had advanced when he formally opened the door to a completed model home aback Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara.
Officials from the Maritime Administration Department (MARAD), led by the Director of Maritime Safety, Captain Stephen Thomas, this week visited Muritaro village to distribute life jackets to the Muritaro Primary School.
Former President Bharrat Jagdeo recently joined world leaders in appealing for urgent global action on climate change and announced a new partnership with Colombia and three European governments “to provide performance-based payments across Colombia’s Amazon region.”
President Donald Ramotar extended felicitations to the pastor and congregation of Smith Memorial Congre-gational Church for their service to the needy at the church’s 170th anniversary service on Sunday.
Less than a month after fire ravaged the Comfort Sleep Bond, the inferno returned, this time destroying the company’s factory also located in the Eccles Industrial Site.
The Ministry of Education this evening said that the following schools will remain closed tomorrow, Friday, November 29, 2013:
The Ministry said the decision to have the schools remain closed was made after checks by Ministry officials revealed that as a result of the slow pace in the receding of the flood waters, no sanitation work could have commenced.
The Ministry of Health has invited companies to prequalify for supplying medicines and medical supplies to the Ministry between 2014 and 2016, says an advertisement in the Guyana Chronicle on Tuesday.
The Guyana Government will make a financial contribution of US$50,000 ($10m) to assist in the international relief efforts in the Philippines in the wake of the devastating loss of life and property due to Typhoon Haiyan.
An off duty police of Guyanese descent employed as a Sergeant with the New York City Police Department (NYPD) was savagely beaten near death in Richmond Hill last week by another man who was later arrested by officers NYPD.
Incessant rain, which began in the wee hours of yesterday, left most of the city under several inches of water, closing schools, shuttering businesses and causing millions of dollars in damage.
The Ministry of Education last evening said that forty-two schools in Georgetown and one on the East Coast of Demerara will remain closed today following flooding yesterday from heavy rainfall.
Four years after it was commissioned and innumerable bouts of severe weather later, the $550 million Doppler Radar project intended to provide up-to-the-minute weather reports isn’t doing so leaving some to conclude that the European Union and Guyana-funded project is a failure in that respect.
President Donald Ramotar says the proposed five per cent salary increase announced last week is above the current inflation rate and is not likely to exceed this sum as the treasury cannot afford more at this point.
The Civil Defence Commission (CDC) said that while yesterday’s flooding did not reach “alarming” levels, it was ready to deal with emergencies but needed public support.