The National Communications Network (NCN) is preparing to hire a new Chief Executive Officer who will oversee a new management structure that will deliver a new brand of programming at Guyana’s state-owned radio and television broadcaster. “The strategic direction now set has necessitated several changes. This includes changes at the administrative level of the organization based on revised terms of ...

Reproduced from New York Daily News BY VICTORIA BEKIEMPIS A pill-pushing physician who used bogus Bronx clinics to run a massive oxycodone ring will spend 12 years in prison, a federal judge decided Monday. Dr. Kevin Lowe was convicted in May for operating a chain of Astramed clinics that, for three years, wrote around 35,000 fraudulent prescriptions for some 5.5 ...

The Chief Executive Officer of  Guyana’s state-owned National Communications Network (NCN), Molly Hassan resigned Monday. Chairman of the Board, Bish Panday declined to comment immediately on the resignation. Hassan would only confirm that she resigned voluntarily and that she was not asked to do so. It was not immediately clear who would take over responsibility for NCN since the position ...

Liana Cane  furniture factory, widely regarded as a shining example of social entrepreneurship, was destroyed by fire early Tuesday morning. Millions of dollars in equipment have been destroyed and at least 50 persons who were employed directly by the company are now jobless. Sources said the blaze started at about 3: 30 AM at Victoria Road, Plaisance. The Head of ...

Canada has helped to boost the Guyana Police Force’s capacity to process video surveillance footage, with the donation of more than GYD$3 million in equipment. “The equipment will enable officers in the newly established Forensic Video Analysis Unit to extract the relevant video footage and enhance images,” the police force said in a statement. Canada’s High Commissioner to Guyana, Pierre ...

Mr. Yawei Jiang emerged the grand prize winner in the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph’s (GTT’s) “Sell More Top Up to Win” Merchant Promotion and received a surprise visit from GTT on Thursday, January 7. GTT’s Vendor Management team visited the winner at his place of business, a restaurant in Suddie, Essequibo and presented him with his prize in the early ...

Guyana’s Ministry of Natural Resources Monday night announced that it is seeking a legal opinion on whether Junior Minister, Simona Broomes’ appointment can potentially lead to a conflict with her material interest in the mining sector. “The Ministry has solicited a legal opinion on the matter of conflict of interest and will pronounce with greater specificity on this issue very ...

by Telesha Vidya Ramnarine THE Georgetown Mayor and City Council (M&CC) is in the process of deciding what it will do with the 46 vendors of the Kitty Market who are “in harm’s way.” “It is unsafe; in a ruinous condition,” Town Clerk Royston King said of the market which is located at the corners of Barr and Alexander Streets, ...

by Telesha Vidya Ramnarine Even as fire fighters were making significant progress in extinguishing a three-week old blaze at the Haags-Bosch Landfill, a heated exchange arose Monday at City Hall about why Public Health Officers were not included in a meeting with Minister of Communities Ronald Bulkan about the garbage disposal facility. Fire Chief, Marlon Gentle told Demerara Waves Online News ...

Leader of the small opposition Organisation for the Victory of the People, Gerald Perreira first wants members of the People’s Progressive Party Civic (PPPC) prosecuted for corruption, narco-trafficking and murder before the government engages in national unity talks with that party. “To just speak about national unity and for them to come on board and get on board without addressing ...