Last Updated on Friday, 12 May 2017, 17:33 by Denis Chabrol The man, who threw a bag containing marijuana over the fence into the Georgetown Prison compound, on Friday pleaded guilty and was sentenced to four years imprisonment. Reman Marks, of no fixed place of abode, admitted to the offence of being in possession of 793 grammes of marijuana for ...

Last Updated on Friday, 12 May 2017, 15:04 by Denis Chabrol The Government is heightening its work with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), and other agencies in Region Two, Pomeroon-Supenaam, to tackle suicide and attempted cases. Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Karen Cummings and a team from the Mental Health Unit of the Ministry of Public Health, on Thursday ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 May 2017, 17:30 by Denis Chabrol The People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Thursday (May 11, 2017) warned that when government breaks for a parliamentary recess in August, the administration will embark on an unconscionable raping of the treasury in order to facilitate drug purchases through manufactured emergencies. The prediction was made by the former Junior Finance ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 31 May 2017, 12:35 by Denis Chabrol An East Coast Demerara father was Thursday arraigned before Magistrate Alyesha George in the Sparendaam Magistrates Court this morning om a charge of the murder of his son. Forty year old Omar Khan of Lot 8 Better Hope Railway Line was not required to answer to a charge which alleged ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 May 2017, 14:49 by Denis Chabrol Fearful of a terrorist assault on Parliament Building while the 65-seat National Assembly is in session, the Guyana Police Force says it has extended its cordon to include several streets nearby. “The Guyana Police Force wishes the Public to know that the barriers were directly related to the security ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 May 2017, 14:17 by Denis Chabrol Thousands of youths in crime and violence-prone areas of Guyana are expected to benefit from a US$64 million Caribbean project to be funded by the United States (US). Guyana, St.Kitts and Nevis, and St. Lucia are the three “focus group countries” from among the 10 listed to benefit from the ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 May 2017, 13:12 by Denis Chabrol Guyana is finding a hard time hiring contractors from India to execute huge projects here because the rules have changed and the contracts are comparatively too small, Finance Minister Winston Jordan said Thursday. “One of the problems is that there is a new system in place in India- a ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 May 2017, 12:40 by Denis Chabrol Guyana has scrapped the India-funded Specialty Hospital project and will repay the amount of money that has been already spent on works at the Liliendaal, East Coast Demerara location, Finance Minister Winston Jordan announced Thursday. “This issue is dead, dead,” he told a news briefing when asked about the ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 11 May 2017, 11:44 by Denis Chabrol The rate of implementation of Guyana’s Public Sector Investment Programme (PSIP) has been pegged at a lowly 20 percent, prompting a call by Finance Minister Winston Jordan for retired persons to become evaluators. “If there is one that we haven’t really got going is the Public Sector Investment Programme, ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 10 May 2017, 18:15 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger on Wednesday met with Mr. John Hess, Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of HESS Corporation, the exploration company that holds a 30 percent interest in Exxon Mobil’s offshore drilling operations in the Stabroek Block. The CEO was accompanied by the company’s President and Chief Operating Officer, Mr. Greg ...