Last Updated on Sunday, 22 August 2021, 20:56 by Denis Chabrol An 18-year old man of Swan Village, Soesdyke Highway was stabbed to death Saturday night after he allegedly went to a shop, behaved disorderly and stabbed and injured a man. Police say that Roy Boston was pronounced dead at the Diamond Hospital where he was taken after he collapsed. ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 August 2021, 20:53 by Denis Chabrol A 13-year old male student has been robbed at gunpoint of his cellular phone and cash, the Guyana Police Force said on Sunday. Police say that the incident occurred at about 4:30 PM Saturday at Westminster, Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara. The boy told police that  was heading home ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 22 August 2021, 20:51 by Denis Chabrol Three more persons, who tested positive for the novel coronavirus (COVID-19) have died, taking Guyana’s death toll since last year March to 594, the Health Ministry said. The patients were admitted with COVID-19 like symptoms but died while receiving care at government medical institutions. The Health Ministry says samples ...

Last Updated on Friday, 20 August 2021, 16:06 by Denis Chabrol Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL) and the LR Group of Israel are currently undertaking a feasibility study for the establishment of a commercially viable dairy farming operation designed to supply DDL’s TOPCO milk plant with fresh cows’ milk for pasteurization and packaging, DDL said on Friday. The study forms part ...

Last Updated on Friday, 20 August 2021, 16:53 by Denis Chabrol Several of 30 firefighters on Friday set the stage for High Court action to challenge a decision by the Ministry of Home Affairs to block their promotions. Attorney-at-Law Eusi Anderson- representing Shekel Rogers, Kathyann Belille,  Tiffany Sancho, Marlon Philadelphia, Akaney Hinckson, Winston Manjet, Candesa Cox, Lois Cordis, Shenne Subrattie, ...

Last Updated on Friday, 20 August 2021, 14:25 by Denis Chabrol Suriname has agreed to licence Guyanese fishermen to operate in Surinamese waters, but an opposition party there has registered its objection. President Irfaan Ali, at a joint news conference on Thursday with his Surinamese counterpart, announced that from January 2022, Guyanese fishers would be granted  licences “because this is ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 August 2021, 22:09 by Denis Chabrol A Jamaican company, former Public Infrastructure Minister David Patterson and the former Permanent Secretary Balraj Balram are facing a multi-million dollar lawsuit concerning the purchase of three weigh-in-motion scales that government said had not been delivered. Also sued is Lawrence Mentis, a then  Engineer/Manager of the Special Projects Unit ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 August 2021, 20:03 by Denis Chabrol Two persons, who had been arrested in connection with the alleged discovery of cocaine in powdered milk, have been released  from custody after tests show that there was no trace of the narcotic, police said Thursday. Police had initially said that a field test conducted on packets of Fernleaf ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 August 2021, 19:52 by Denis Chabrol Guyana and Suriname are set to heighten cooperation in health including the provision of highly specialised services, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony said Thursday shortly after inking an accord with his counterpart. He offered, as examples Guyana being able to offer kidney transplants to Surinamese, and this country sending ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 19 August 2021, 19:10 by Denis Chabrol Guyanese farmers’ produce could soon be exported to neighbouring Suriname and possibly to Europe now that the two countries have formally agreed to remove existing barriers, Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha said on Thursday. “Through GMC (Guyana Marketing Corporation), we are finding markets for these small farmers. They bring the ...