Last Updated on Monday, 6 February 2017, 12:58 by Derwayne Wills The Public Health ministry, under new minister Volda Lawrence, has called on the Education Ministry for assistance in resolving an exam dilemma which emerged last year when students were told they might have to re-sit their examinations. The Education Ministry will now assist the Public Health Ministry and the ...

Last Updated on Monday, 6 February 2017, 11:19 by Derwayne Wills A brawl among a group of inmates at the Georgetown Magistrate Courts saw one prisoner pulling a knife on another, causing ranks to call for backup and temporarily shut down the main access way of the Court. The knife wielder, 19-year-old Regus Lamazon, was charged October last with the ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 5 February 2017, 18:33 by Denis Chabrol An Indian company with international experience in the sugar industry is interested in investing in the low-producing Skeldon Sugar Factory with the aim of making it profitable in less than two years , an investment broker said Sunday. “From our conversation, we believe that within 18 months or less ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 12 March 2019, 13:47 by Writer by Vivian Williams, Esq. LLM When Guyana’s President David Granger requested a second list of nominees for Chairman of the country’s Elections Commission (GECOM) from the Leader of the Opposition, he extended an olive branch and created a dangerous precedent. The submission of a list of nominees is a one-shot ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 4 February 2017, 20:41 by Denis Chabrol Guyana’s former Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), Noel Sinclair died Saturday after a battle with cancer. He was 76 years old. The Ministry of Foreign Affairs issued the following statement. The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Director General and members of staff of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs have ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 4 February 2017, 15:09 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company’s (GTT) Chief Executive Officer, Justin Nedd hopes that long requested landline rates will be increased ahead of liberalization of the telecommunications sector. “One of the things that is extremely important to us is being able to work with the Public Utilities Commission to ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 4 February 2017, 13:08 by Denis Chabrol An employee of the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) was Saturday killed in a road accident on the Corentyne Public Road after she lost control of her vehicle, police said. Investigators identified her as 24-year old Shabana Ally, an employee with the Rose Hall branch of the ...

Last Updated on Friday, 3 February 2017, 21:32 by Denis Chabrol A city businessman narrowly escaped injury and was able to deposit cash while his security guard and bandits exchanged gunfire in an attempted robbery. Sources said the incident occurred at about 5:15 PM Friday, February 3, 2017 near the Citizens Bank night deposit at Thirst Park, East Bank Demerara. ...

Last Updated on Friday, 3 February 2017, 16:22 by Denis Chabrol Hundreds of Guyanese Friday morning protested against metered parking in Guyana’s capital, Georgetown, even as a much smaller pro-government group struggled to show any signs of real resistance. “This is not about politics. Go and record that thrash over there; that nonsense over there. How can he get on ...

Last Updated on Friday, 3 February 2017, 14:44 by Derwayne Wills “We have to decide if we want a globalised city where Georgetown is part of the global village, or we want to live in the backdam: in squalor, in mar, in dirt, in indiscipline, and in lawlessness,” Georgetown Town Clerk Royston King told the press corps this afternoon as ...