Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia The European Union (EU) on Monday inked a 200,000 Euro grant contract with a local non-governmental organisation, ChildLink, to help fight sexual violence against thousands of children over the next two years, the diplomatic mission here announced. EU Ambassador to Guyana, Robert Kopecký and Ms. Omattie Madray, Programme Director of ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Natural Resources and the Environment Minister, Hon. Robert M. Persaud on Monday announced the appointment of Mr. Clinton Williams as Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC)  and further confirmed Mr. Rickford Vieira as Commissioner of the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission. Persaud ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia The Peoples Progressive Party (PPP) on Monday ruled out allowing uncontroversial components of the US$1.2 million democracy project to go ahead while the United States and Guyana negotiate the other aspects. PPP General Secretary, Clement Rohee was wary of the government facing greater criticism about its stance on the project ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Heavily armed men early Monday morning staged a daring attack on a Trinidad-owned tug, shattering its navigational equipment and threatening to burn the vessel that is here to collect a shipment of sand to take to St. Lucia, sources said. The incident occurred aboard the Motor Tug Seven Mako near ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Canadian pilot, Blake Slater and the Guyanese Cargo Loader were Monday morning found dead among the wreckage of the single-engine aircraft that went down Saturday morning in dense jungle. Spokesman for Trans Guyana Airways, Kit Nascimento said the pilot’s body was located. A family member of Cargo Loader Dwayne Jacobs ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Guyanese Special Forces soldiers were up to late Sunday night about 100 meters away from the site where a single-engine Cessna Caravan airplane crashed a day earlier, Transport Minister Robeson Benn said. He said light failed and the weather was poor, preventing the soldiers from pressing on in the very ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia A policeman was Sunday afternoon chopped about his body allegedly by a neighbour in an ongoing disagreement. Injured is Constable, Audwin Amsterdam of De Kinderen, West Coast Demerara. He was chopped to his back and knees by a man named Randy Sealey who has been since arrested. Amsterdam is attached ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia An aviation official says Special Forces soldiers are moving into the area where the wreckage of the plane that went down Saturday morning was seen and they hope to know the status of the two persons who were aboard in the coming hours. “They’re now on the ground and they’re ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Wreckage of the downed Cessna Caravan was spotted at approximately 12:45 PM Sunday, Transport Minister Robeson Benn said. The Guyana Civil Aviation Authority said the wreckage was sighted at 4.32km south south west of Olive Creek. Members of the GDF Special Forces were on their way to location. The minister ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 26 December 2015, 21:00 by GxMedia Fire fighters late Saturday night contained a blaze at the Fullworths Auto Spares Building which had housed a Chinese clothing store. Thirty-eight year old Rusdale Farley, who is the caretaker of a wooden house behind the store, was rescued by firemen who broke down the door to remove her from ...