Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia After years of bickering over the right to sell or procure aviation fuel at the Ogle International Airport, Air Services Limited (ASL) has been given the green-light to begin purchasing and selling the commodity. Ogle Airport Inc (OAI) announced that Air Services Limited (ASL) would now be licensed as a ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia A huge fire on Wednesday destroyed the Payless Bond situated in Eccles, East Bank Demerara.The origin of the fire, which began sometime after 7:00 PM, was not immediately known. When Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com) arrived at the scene, part of the building was engulfed, while the compound housing it ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has sent on “administrative” leave its Director of Financial Services and an Accounts Clerk as a probe continues into multi-million dollar fraud. “This decision took immediate effect so that the probe into the disappearance of funds from the Institution could be continued,” the hospital ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia The Guyana government on Thursday announced that it was moving to amend the Procurement Act to ensure that Cabinet retains an oversight role in the award of contracts but this is not expected to win the Alliance For Change’s (AFC) support for amendments to the financial crimes legislation. Cabinet Secretary ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia City businessman Rondy Jagdeo allegedly shot dead his “close” friend, Kurt Davis, because he had received information that he was seen kissing his wife in a night club, the court was told Wednesday. Jagdeo was Wednesday arraigned for allegedly murdering Davis on September 3 at Eccles, East Bank Demerara. Chief ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia (TRINIDAD EXPRESS).-A Guyanese woman and her ailing two-year-old son, a Trinidad national, were deported hours after the child was discharged from hospital on Monday night. The child’s mother, Rosinda Nicholson, who arrived in Trinidad five years ago, is now appealing to Minister of Health Fuad Khan to intervene. Her sister, ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia A retired member of the Georgetown City Constabulary who slashed his ex girlfriend’s throat and stabbed her outside a church was Tuesday charged with attempted murder. Godfrey Lammy of 5 Laing Avenue, Georgetown was not required to plea to the charge.’ The prosecution’s case is that he attempted to murder ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Several surgeries were postponed and a number of patients were sponged because of a disruption in water supply at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation due to power surge, hospital sources said. “A few surgeries were cancelled as a result of the unavailability of water in the operating theatres,” the GPHC ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Guyana is gearing up to be part of a regional network to teach the performing arts at the level of Caribbean examinations as well as push drama as a money-making enterprise. The announcement was made at the inaugural convocation of the newly-established National School of Theatre Arts and Drama held ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Government says it is spending more than GUY$60 million on forensic and photographic equipment for the security sector including the Forensic Laboratory being constructed in the compound of the University of Guyana (UG), Turkeyen. The Home Affairs Ministry said in a statement that the suppliers were selected using the national ...