A city stallholder yesterday admitted to the assault of another man but explained that he acted in defence of both his wife and himself after the complainant cursed her and chucked him.
The Ministry of Human Services and Social Security has teamed up with the International Labour Organisation (ILO) to host a camp for 30 children who have been affected by domestic and family violence.
Chairman of the Linden IMC, Orrin Gordon, says the municipality continues to be challenged to meet its mandate as many property owners flout their obligations to pay rates and taxes and new properties in Amelia’s Ward are being evaluated below current market prices.
The New Zealand government has financed an Industrial Arts Centre focused on carpentry and joinery at Shulinab, South Central Rupununi that will enable residents to tap into the construction industry and capitalise on the growing market at Lethem and in Brazil.
Minister of Health, Dr Bheri Ramsaran has charged the new Berbice Regional Health Authority (BRHA) board to tackle childhood non-communicable diseases and to engage stakeholders in both regions Five and Six to inform the operations of hospitals under its purview.
The Rotaract Club of Georgetown Central donated a number of school items to children from the Sophia community who were successful at the National Grade Six Assessment.
Public Relations specialist Christopher “Kit” Nascimento was elected president of the Tourism and Hospitality Association of Guyana (THAG) at its AGM held on Thursday.
Scores of young people on August 25, 2013 joined the Progressive Youth Organisation (PYO) to paint one hundred and one pedestrian crossings across Guyana as part of its “Road Safety and Back to School Campaign”, a release from the PYO said yesterday.
Number 65 Village sisters Tiana and Gayona Bissoondyal, each born with a hole in the heart and a slim chance of getting overseas for life-saving surgery, are the first successes of paediatric heart surgeries now being provided at the Dr.
Guyana yesterday missed the deadline to submit documents on anti-money laundering legislation to the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force (CFATF) and the private sector is concerned about the ramifications.
A Commission from the OAS Mechanism for Follow-Up on the Implementation of the Inter- American Convention against Corruption (MESICIC) will visit Guyana from October 8 to 10 and is likely to hear an earful from politicians and civil society groups.
An East Canje chainsaw operator was found hanging at a logging camp at Kurduni, Berbice River last Friday and police say that the “prime suspect” in his death is in custody after suicide was ruled out.
Odessa Thomas, the mother of the two children who died in the Joseph Pollydore Street house fire on Sunday, is under an investigation by the Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) and could face charges.
President of the Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) Simona Broomes, who has been hailed for her work in combatting human trafficking, was arrested yesterday after she was accused of pulling a gun on an alleged human trafficker who was days ago charged with assaulting her.
A Better Hope mother of six died at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Saturday morning and her family is saying that her death could have been prevented had the hospital staff attended to her in a timely manner.
Fire Chief Marlon Gentle yesterday confirmed that arson was the cause of the fire which consumed a `C’ Field Sophia house on Sunday although the alleged arsonist insists that it was an accident.