Minister of Local Government Ganga Persaud on Thursday said that a solution is on the horizon in the standoff over the toll instituted by Linden’s Interim Management Committee (IMC) for travelling through the municipality en route to interior locations.
Proprietrix of Safari Inn, Yvonne Correia says she is of the view that Victor Ramsabad called ‘Tun-Tun,’ whose battered body was found on Tuesday in a passageway of the compound, had climbed up the shed to peep into the rooms of tenants and in a drunken haze, had probably fallen to his death.
The Guyana International Relief Organisation (GIRO) in partnership with the Islamic Relief Organisation (IRO) yesterday donated a quantity of medical supplies to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Overseas-based Berbician, Dr. Tulsi Dyal Singh of Texas, USA, recently rewarded Region Five’s top students at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment for their achievements,
Stationery hampers were handed over to the students on Wednesday at the Region Democratic Council through the Lions Club of New Amsterdam.
PORT-OF-SPAIN, Trinidad, CMC – The Jamaica Tallawahs defeated the Barbados Tridents by seven wickets in their CPL T20 semifinal at Queens Park Oval on Friday night.
President Donald Ramotar, Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces and Chairman of the Defence Board has approved the promotion of Colonel Mark Phillips to Brigadier and he is the new designated GDF Chief of Staff.
GWI today advised customers of the following areas of a service disruption from August 26 to August 30 to facilitate urgent maintenance at the L’oratoire Well Station, West Bank Demerara:
* Recht Door Zee
* Onderneeming
* Westminster
* Parfaite Harmonie
* Schoonord
* Canal #1
* Bagotsville
* Nismes
* La Grange, West Bank Demerara.
The Amaila Falls hydro project licence will expire at the end of the year and while one option would be to have it run out, other options for wresting it from the hands of Sithe Global will require very careful consideration given their implications, said a Government source last night.
The opposition is questioning government’s attempt to go ahead with the construction of the US$18M specialty hospital at Turkeyen despite the $1.25 billion allocation proposed for the facility being chopped during this year’s budget consideration.
Twenty-seven-year-old Shameeza Mohammed, who was allegedly stabbed nearly a dozen times by her reputed husband on Tuesday, said she is now fearful for her life after the man tried fooling guards to gain entry to the Georgetown Public Hospital.
Odinga Lumumba, the head of McNeal Enterprises, yesterday announced that R&B singer R Kelly has committed to performing at a concert here on October 19 and he promised that the lineup for the show would include other “big name and popular” performers.
A man accused of breaking and entering the home of a woman and stealing a quantity of cash and items is now free after the complainant yesterday stunned a court by dropping the case.