Last Updated on Sunday, 29 May 2022, 17:36 by Denis Chabrol                 Statement by the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation on the passing of Dr Ramsundar Doobay   The Board of Directors, Management and Staff of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) join the medical fraternity in extending deepest condolences to the family, friends ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 29 May 2022, 17:14 by Denis Chabrol Engineer Neil Rampersaud was Sunday morning stabbed to death by a man who he lashed for failing to go to the police station because he had one hour earlier stabbed another man, the Guyana Police Force said. Investigators said the suspect,40, of Victoria Road, Plaisance, East Coast Demerara, was ...

Last Updated on Sunday, 29 May 2022, 13:59 by Denis Chabrol A day after the Guyana Police Force was criticised for robberies and discharge of several rounds in the air during  Friday night’s concert by Jamaican artiste, Skeng, at the National Park, police  Saturday night seized dozens of scissors from patrons at the Jouvert at the same venue. However, no ...

Last Updated on Saturday, 28 May 2022, 18:30 by Denis Chabrol Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo on Saturday encouraged part-time government employees to take up opportunities to become qualified, even as the administration appeared poised to allow foreigners to take up jobs in the booming oil-related economy. “I hope that all of you, who are going to work on the programme, ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 May 2022, 10:05 by Denis Chabrol Opposition Leader Aubrey Norton, on Guyana’s 56th Independence Anniversary, urged an end to “lip service” on tackling racial disunity and socio-economic and political marginalisation. In a message to mark the end of British colonial rule on May 26, 1966, he said Guyanese need to do better to entrench their ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 May 2022, 8:57 by Denis Chabrol Three children were early Thursday morning burnt to death in a house at Mocha, East Bank Demerara, Fire Chief Gregory Wickham said. Other sources identify them as Timothy Kippins 8, Trayshaw Flur, 6, and 1-year old Zhlia Flur. The sources said they were working on the theory that the ...

Last Updated on Thursday, 26 May 2022, 0:26 by Denis Chabrol President Irfaan Ali on Wednesday night, to usher in Guyana’s 56th Independence Anniversary, stood in Essequibo and thumped his nose at Venezuela’s continued disregard for the International Court of Justice’s (ICJ) ability to hear and settle the border controversy over that county. “We do not intend to deviate from ...

Last Updated on Wednesday, 25 May 2022, 16:55 by Denis Chabrol The Guyana Telephone and Telegraph’s (GTT) is moving to phase out its reliance on contracted fibre-optic cable technicians, and employ its own who will be promoted and paid increased salaries based on training and performance, company and union officials said Wednesday. Speaking at the signing of an accord between ...

Last Updated on Tuesday, 24 May 2022, 14:43 by Denis Chabrol A consortium of Guyanese auditors, backed by a specialised external entity, has been awarded a more than US$700,000 contract to conduct a cost recovery audit of the US$9 billion worth of transactions for the exploration and production of oil in the Stabroek Block, Minister of Natural Resources Vickram Bharrat ...

Last Updated on Monday, 23 May 2022, 17:43 by Denis Chabrol An Afro-Guyanese former policewoman plans will be mounting a legal challenge against the Director of Public Prosecutions (DPP) decision to withdraw a private criminal charge of inciting racial hostility that she had filed against Indo-Guyanese Attorney-at-Law Nirvan Singh. Shawnette Bollers’ lawyer, Eusi Anderson, said the DPP should  have allowed ...