The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) is supporting Guyana in training teachers, probation officers and community leaders in reforming offenders because, according to Attorney General Anil Nandlall, traditional means of punishment have not been working. “It has been found that the traditional theories and methods of dealing with criminal behaviour, violent conduct  have not yielded the results anticipated,” he said at ...

The owner of a tug and barge that slammed into the Demerara Harbour Bridge last year December has paid GYD$16.3 million as the cost for damage to the thoroughfare, authorities said Wednesday. Minister of Public Works , Juan Edghill confirmed the amount of money in a brief interview with News-Talk Radio. The Demerara Harbour Bridge Corporation says the final instalment ...

The University of Guyana (UG) says it will benefit from  an inter-institutional collaboration that will strengthen the development of information  services for mangrove mapping and monitoring. Signing the  Memorandum of  Understanding (MoU) on Tuesday with UG were SERVIR-Amazonia and the National Aeronautics and Space  Administration (NASA). SERVIR-Amazonia, a subsidiary of SERVIR Global, is part of a joint development initiative  by ...

A security guard, who was on duty at a supermarket on the Lusignan Railway Embankment was Tuesday night robbed of a handgun and ammunition by two men, the Guyana Police Force said. The robbery victim has been identified as Benson Jarvis who was on duty at A-Chang, Supermarket when the incident occurred between 10:00 PM and 10:10 PM He told ...

The six councillors of the Rosignol Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC) on Tuesday withdrew their resignation, after a meeting with the General Secretary of their People’s Progressive Party, Bharrat Jagdeo. No details were provided about their disagreement in the joint statement that they issued after the meeting. They only described their disagreement as “a particular issue in the NDC.” Opposition A ...

The body of a fisherman from Uitvlugt, West Coast Demerara has been discovered on rocks at Leonora Seawall Dead is 40-year old Sadar Sookdeo also known as Rakesh of Ocean View, Uitvlugt, The body was seen lying on the rocks at about 2:23 PM Monday. Police say the body was decomposing, but there were no visible marks of violence. The ...

A welder-fabricator of Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara and his father have been arrested and 13 motorcycles and frames have been seized from the location, the Guyana Police Force said Tuesday. Region Three Divisional Commander, Senior Superintendent Errol Watts is urging persons who have lost their motorcycles to visit the Vreed-en-Hoop station to see if any belongs to them. The motorcycles ...

Six People’s Progressive Party (PPP/C) Councillors have resigned from the the Rosignol Neighbourhood Democratic Council (NDC). The official reason given by several of the former councillors include “many unsettled issues”, being “frustrated and disappointed” and a “lack of cooperation from fellow councillors.” PPP Executive Secretary, Zulfikar Mustapha is due to meet with the aggrieved councillors Tuesday afternoon, even as he ...

U.S. oil major ExxonMobil is set to drill another well in the Canje Block, offshore Guyana, after it was last week announced that the first well drilled -the Bulletwood-1 – failed to strike commercial oil volumes, OE Digital reported on Tuesday. The publication said ExxonMobil has now moved Stena Drilling’s Stena Carron drillship to the Jabillo-1 well location in the ...

The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) is assisting the Guyana Responsible Parenthood (GRPA) to diagnose and treat females suffering from diseases of the reproductive system. The company yesterday donated GYD$720,000 from its Pinktober funds to the Guyana Responsible Parenthood Association (GRPA). GTT says at least 170 women stand to benefit from the diagnosis and treatment. The telecoms provider, which made ...