Last Updated on Sunday, 5 August 2018, 15:11 by Denis Chabrol At least 100 of Guyana’s Christian Evangelical and Pentecostal church leaders on Sunday collectively called on government not to outlaw buggery, but the country’s major lesbian and gay rights organisation is not worried that government will buckle to pressure at the risk of losing votes in a general election. Head ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 4 August 2018, 9:04 by Denis Chabrol The owner of Tourist Villa Hotel and Bar early Saturday morning shot and killed a  man who ran into the business place behind a handyman who had earlier intervened in altercation between the now dead man and his girlfriend, police sources said.’ The murder suspect’s name has been given ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 4 August 2018, 8:12 by Denis Chabrol A 73-year old man was shot dead shortly after he picked up a 46-year old woman and took her to his home at Grant Maria’s Delight, Lower Pomeroon River. The Guyana Police Force said the incident occurred Friday at 6:30 PM shortly after the man went to Charity Housing Scheme,Essequibo Coast ...

Last Updated on Friday, 3 August 2018, 19:23 by Denis Chabrol Women’s experiences in forest management are being harnessed to help reduce the emission of greenhouse gases that cause climate change events such as droughts, floods and storms. The Ministry of Natural Resources Project Execution Unit (PEU) of the Forest Carbon Partnership Facility (FCPF) Project, in collaboration with the Inter-American ...

Last Updated on Friday, 3 August 2018, 17:57 by Denis Chabrol A significant portion of the total loan portfolio held by Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry (GBTI) is non-performing as it experiences a severe hangover from an expansion that saw its loans and advances increase by 140% in only five years, but senior officials of that commercial bank and ...

Last Updated on Friday, 3 August 2018, 17:03 by Denis Chabrol The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) on Friday announced that it would be providing US$30,000 worth relief supplies to assist the Venezuelans who have been crossing the border in three administrative regions of Essequibo county. In a joint statement, UNICEF and the Civil Defence Commission said the supplies would ...

Last Updated on Friday, 3 August 2018, 12:07 by Denis Chabrol Prison guards have scuttled a plot by two murder accused to escape from the Lusignan Prison, leaving Prisons Director Gladwin Samuels baffled at how the prisoners got cutting equipment. ‘During security checks conducted, the discovery was made. One steel bar was discovered cut while attempts were being made to ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 2 August 2018, 20:49 by Denis Chabrol A West Bank Demerara man, who was caught with guns and harvested marijuana on a plot of land cultivated with marijuana, pleaded guilty on Thursday and was sentenced to 11 years imprisonment. Magistrate Renita Singh, sitting in the Reliance Magistrates’ Court, East Berbice, sentenced 26-year old Lloyd Samuels of ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 2 August 2018, 19:00 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader, Bharrat Jagdeo on Thursday backed President David Granger’s Emancipation call for entrepreneurship, self-sufficiency and education, but took umbrage at the Guyanese leader’s admonition that they should be ashamed if they do not work. “This is the duplicity, the double-standard. Government is just borrowing, taxing all of that- ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 2 August 2018, 18:52 by Denis Chabrol President David Granger on Thursday defended the appointment of Dr. Mark Bynoe, an environmental economist, to head the Department of Energy which would, among other things, decide on granting oil concessions and licences. While conceding that Bynoe was not experienced in the oil and gas sector, the President said ...