Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 April 2016, 19:31 by Denis Chabrol The Pan American Health Organisation/World Health Organisation (PAHO/WHO) and President David Granger on Wednesday called for greater coordination in developing strategies to combat suicide in Guyana, a country that is ranked as the world’s suicide capital. Addressing the opening of a Suicide Prevention Programme organised by the Ministry of ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 April 2016, 17:20 by   Camp Street Prison inmate Roy Jacobs has testified that daily publication of two of Guyana’s largest newspapers – Kaieteur News and Stabroek News, are banned from the prison. Jacobs, on his second day of testimony at the Commission of Inquiry into the Camp Street Prison Riot, was at odds to ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 April 2016, 11:39 by   The Editor in Chief of the Guyana Chronicle will soon be proceeding on leave subsequent to a decision by the Board of Directors. The Editor in Chief, Nigel Williams was found responsible for the publishing of a doctored photograph of President David Granger in the National Park. As explained, the ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 April 2016, 0:11 by Denis Chabrol A goldsmith, charged by the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) with exporting gold without a licence and failing to declare in excess of US$10,000 before departing Guyana, was Tuesday granted bail. Chief Magistrate, Ann Mc Lennan granted GYD$100,000 bail to Richard Ramjit of 4 Bissoon Street, Better Hope, East Coast ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 April 2016, 0:36 by Denis Chabrol A Guyanese man was Tuesday arraigned for the murder of a Cuban ship engineer almost one month after his body was found on the Providence, East Bank Demerara with a wound to the neck. Charged with the indictable offence is Lawrence Rowe of 69 Parker Street, Providence, East Bank ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 April 2016, 23:41 by Denis Chabrol A Jamaican carpenter, accused of overstaying, drug trafficking and forgery of a Guyana driver’s licence, was Tuesday refused bail and remanded to prison. Alfred Wellington, who resides at Friendship, East Bank Demerara, allegedly had 1.324 kilogrammes of cocaine in his possession for the purpose of trafficking on April 2, ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 April 2016, 0:18 by Denis Chabrol In areas where there were draws after the recently concluded Local Government Polls, Communities Minister Ronald Bulkan has stepped in and named the persons that would be elected Mayor and Chairpersons. Reports have confirmed that instead of duly applying the law, Minister Bulkan went ahead and named the Chairpersons ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 5 April 2016, 13:55 by   Transparency Institute Guyana Inc, is calling on the President David Granger administration to immediately issue the names of all the persons that have been given instruments of office, after the May 11, 2015 General and Regional Elections. The call comes after revelations that shady businessman Brian ‘BK’ Tiwarie was appointed ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 April 2016, 0:13 by Denis Chabrol Convicted prisoner Carl Browne has told the Commission of Inquiry into the Camp Street Prison unrest that cellular phones would be smuggled into the prison via prison wardens and prisoners would have to pay for them. Browne who is known for having a Facebook profile that is frequently updated ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 6 April 2016, 0:13 by Denis Chabrol The Chairman of the Commission of Inquiry into the Camp Street Prison riot, James Patterson and the Joint Services Attorney Selwyn Pieters were engaged in a heated exchange on Tuesday morning as the Commission met for a sitting. Patterson raised some concerns about the manner in which video evidence ...