Last Updated on Saturday, 7 May 2016, 4:58 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana government has reactivated the National Disaster Risk Reduction Coordination Platform (NDRRCP), which has only operated intermittently for a number of years, at a meeting held at the headquarters of the Civil Defence Commission (CDC). Chairman of the CDC, Colonel (ret’d) Chabilall Ramsarup and other senior members of ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 May 2016, 23:44 by Denis Chabrol A group of vendors, who normally sell outside the old Guyana Stores Limited (GSL) bond on Water Street, have now been left out in the cold as the businessman plans to tell the High Court that he never granted them permission to play their trade, but instead they had ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 May 2016, 16:47 by Denis Chabrol The Full Court of the High Court on Friday ordered the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco) to halt the sending home or re-deployment of hundreds of sugar workers stationed at the Wales Sugar Estate until they are consulted in keeping with the law. The order was secured by the Guyana ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 May 2016, 15:47 by Denis Chabrol A security guard, who was employed at the Princess Ramada Hotel, and two other men were Friday charged with an GYD$8.5 million robbery committed at the Princess Casino late last month. Appearing before Chief Magistrate Ann Mc Lennan,  the trio Wayne Griffith, 29,  Junior Stewart, 30 of Thomas Street, ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 May 2016, 16:56 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger on Friday endorsed the clean-up of the Stabroek Market Square and called on the Mayor and City Council of Georgetown to hasten efforts to prepare and provide an alternative location for the vendors, who have been removed from the Stabroek Market Square. “I deeply regret that ...

Last Updated on Friday, 6 May 2016, 13:43 by On Friday morning again the Town Clerk and City Council of Georgetown faced off in a clash and heated exchange over plans to relocate vendors outside of the Stabroek Market and restore order to the Market square. After vendors protested over the past few days over the move, the Town Clerk ...