Last Updated on Thursday, 9 June 2016, 8:51 by Denis Chabrol The National Communications Network (NCN) has sought to clear the name of its former Chief Executive Officer, Molly Hassan, saying that she was not implicated in any financial irregularities. “NCN is satisfied that Ms. Hassan always executed her duties with financial rectitude,” the state-owned radio and television broadcaster said ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 8 June 2016, 16:52 by Denis Chabrol Ten persons were Wednesday nabbed by Guyanese police in connection with the interce‎ption of more than six kilogrammes of cocaine concealed in a consignment of frozen fish that was bound for the United States.  Police said that at about 2:10 AM on Wednesday, June 8, 2016 anti-narcotics police seized ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 June 2016, 17:58 by Denis Chabrol The National Communications Network (NCN) on Tuesday dismissed claims of a conflict of interest in writing off  a  GYD$2 million debt owed by  Merundoi whose principal is Board Director, Margaret Lawrence. The company said Merundoi’s proposal on April 4, 2016 had entailed the payment of GYD$250,000, plus allowing NCN access ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 June 2016, 17:05 by Denis Chabrol United States based Charity, RAD-AID will be working along with the Ministry of Public Health to develop Radiology Services in Guyana with the first major step being the introduction of a Radiology Residency Programme in September of this year. The Ministry of Public Health said team members of the ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 June 2016, 16:51 by Denis Chabrol The woman, whose daughter was shot dead in Brooklyn, New York last month,  is now set to travel to the United States (US) to say final goodbye to 16-year old Shemel Mercurius. Lovern Williams-Oliver praised Mark Benschop of the Benschop Foundation for assisting her with completing the visa application form ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 June 2016, 8:15 by Denis Chabrol Six persons were early Tuesday morning arrested in connection with the presence of a live grenade near the vehicle owned and driven by the publisher of Kaieteur News, Glenn Lall. “Relative to the investigation into the grenade attack at Kaieteur News, detectives from the Guyana Police Force after reviewing ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 7 June 2016, 7:20 by Denis Chabrol Guyana has been given the green light to award the Caribbean Vocational Qualifications or CVQs, as they are commonly called, in Technical Vocation Education Training (TVET). Deputy Chief Education Officer (Technical,) Ministry of Education, Patrick Chinedu Onwuzirike, in a recent interview, told the Government Information Agency (GINA) that the ...

Last Updated on Monday, 6 June 2016, 11:59 by Denis Chabrol The People’s Progressive Party  (PPP) on Monday brushed aside suggestions that it used its advantage of incumbency to secure free political advertisements on  Guyana’s National Communications Network (NCN) for the 2011 and 2015 general election campaigns, and said it was up to the company to submit its invoices. “We ...

Last Updated on Monday, 6 June 2016, 10:44 by Denis Chabrol The People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) has decided to hold its next congress before year-end, the party’s General Secretary, Clement Rohee announced Monday.  He said that decision to hold the congress during the last quarter of 2016 was taken at last Friday’s Central Committee. Rohee said the focus of ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 5 June 2016, 20:56 by Denis Chabrol A farmer at Moblissa, Linden Highway was Sunday morning shot to his penis snd left arm by another farmer who has since been arrested. The Guyana Police Force did not say what led to the shooting. Injured is 56 year old Cecil Todd, a cash crop farmer. Investigators said ...