Last Updated on Saturday, 21 November 2020, 15:00 by Denis Chabrol The  Rotary Club of Garden City (Georgetown) Guyana – the first cause-based Rotary club- has been formed to help spruce up and maintain Georgetown and other areas of the country. It is named the Rotary Club of Garden City was launched on 10th November and it’s the 7th club ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 21 November 2020, 14:48 by Denis Chabrol Three prisoners early Saturday morning escaped from the Lusignan Prison  by using a bed sheet as an improvised rope to scale the fence of that East Coast Demerara penitentiary, the Guyana Prison Service said. They are murder accused 48-year old Phillip Jhogroo of Lot B3 Goed Intent, Leguan, Essequibo ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 21 November 2020, 13:43 by Denis Chabrol A man and a the mother of a baby have been arrested for allegedly being in possession of suspected amphetamine, methamphetamine and marijuana. The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) says the suspected drugs were seized from a house at 804 ‘C’ Field, Sophia, Greater Georgetown yesterday. Those arrested are 33-year ...

Last Updated on Friday, 20 November 2020, 17:24 by Denis Chabrol The Chief-of-Staff of the Guyana Defence Force , Brigadier Godfrey Bess has vowed that no foreign forces will again be allowed to invade this country’s seaspace and target the country’s oil exploration and production operations. Addressing the GDF’s 55th anniversary dinner, he was at the time referring to the ...

Last Updated on Friday, 20 November 2020, 13:29 by Denis Chabrol Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony has called on Guyanese not to socialise during the Christmas Season in order to reduce the spread of the coronavirus that has already killed more than 140 Guyanese. “We know that traditionally people tend to increase their socialisation during Christmas, people tend to  increase ...

Last Updated on Friday, 20 November 2020, 12:48 by Denis Chabrol Minister of Tourism, Industry and Commerce Oneidge Walrond on Friday insisted that she was constitutionally sworn in as a parliamentarian on September 1, although she had signed an oath renouncing her American citizenship on September 4, 2020. “I am convinced that I have full legal right to sit in ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 November 2020, 21:30 by Denis Chabrol Minister of Governance, Gail Teixeira on Thursday informed the Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) that Permanent Secretary of the Ministry of Amerindian Affairs, Sherie Samantha Fedee was removed on the instruction of President Irfaan Ali. The minister said  Ms. Fedee  would be offered a lateral position at the same ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 November 2020, 20:25 by Denis Chabrol The University of Guyana Workers Union (UGWU) is among those heaping criticism on the decision by the government to award 20,000 scholarships over the next four years through the University of the West Indies (UWI). News of this decision came yesterday in a UWI news release, but so far ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 November 2020, 17:10 by Denis Chabrol Attorney General Anil Nandlall has asked the High Court to strike out one of two election petitions challenging the results of the March 2, 2020 general and regional elections on the grounds that it was served to APNU+AFC Representative of the List, David Granger  four days late. Mr. Nandlall ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 November 2020, 14:31 by Denis Chabrol A 38-year old gold miner from Corentyne was Thursday arraigned for allegedly murdering a 16-year old girl who he met while she and her mother were drinking rum Charged with the indictable offence was Wickroy “Shatta” Mitchell of Number 53 Village, Corentyne, Berbice. He allegedly killed the 16-year old ...