Close to thirty persons are expected to be hired within the telecommunications sector, as GTT will host its first career fair on Friday, November 5, 2021, at its 55 Brickdam Retail location (Blackberry Store). According to GTT’s Employee Experience Director, Tiana Gurcharran, a range of vacant positions is open to suitably qualified professionals who are seeking employment within the company.  ...

A foreign plane without any visible registration marking on Thursday evening landed at the Mahdia airstrip in Region Eight (Potaro-Siparuni), a senior aviation official said. There were no immediate reports of anything illegal aboard the twin-engine Piper Seneca plane. According to the source, the pilot is a Venezuelan and the passenger is a Colombian. An aviation source remarked that once ...

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on Thursday stepped in and transported Guyanese Tyson English and his colleague who spearheaded and participated in bicycle ride from Georgetown to Lethem to raise awareness about cancer and mental health. Mr. English , who was joined by his colleague, Michael Trotman, in Linden, completed the 525 mile journey through rugged terrain day and night ...

Guyana has decided to include aspects of the local content laws from Ghana, Nigeria and Norway in its draft legislations, the Attorney General’s Chambers said in a statement. The decisions were made on Wednesday when a high-level delegation from Ghana on Wednesday joined a team of lawyers from the Attorney General’s Chambers in evaluating Guyana’s draft local content legislation, Attorney ...

A 16-year old boy, who was part of a group of males who allegedly robbed a housewife of her gold chain at the Stabroek Market Square, was Wednesday shot dead by her husband who  is a policeman, the Guyana Police Force said. Dead is Sydel Bourne of Agricola, East Bank Demerara. Investigators were informed that the plainclothes policeman opened fire ...

A well-known City doctor was Tuesday night found dead at his medical clinic on Duke Street, Kingston and two men have since been arrested. He is 49-year old Colin Roach of Windsor Estates, East Bank Demerara.  Police say two employees of his International Medical Clinic on Duke Street, Kingston have since been arrested. Dr. Roach was a former chairman of ...

A Guyanese man, on Tuesday ended his  525-mile journey by bicycle from Georgetown to Lethem to raise public awareness about cancer and mental health, but expressed disappointment that the private sector and government agencies did not support him. Tyson English, nevertheless, remains determined that no one else will steal his idea and hopes that ‘Ride For Hope’ will become an ...

Opposition Leader Joseph Harmon on Tuesday said the Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GGCI) on Tuesday offered to broker talks with the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) on a range of governance and economic issues facing the country. “I did not have to ask that; they made that proposal and I said to them I had no objection to them ...

A 20-year old woman has been arrested in connection with her alleged efforts to smuggle 22 grammes of marijuana among several bars of blue soap into the Lusignan Prison, East Coast Demerara, police said. The woman of Cummings Park, Sophia was arrested Monday afternoon at the prison where she had gone to take items for an inmate. Police said that ...

Two men posing as meter readers, who entered a yard and attacked a woman moments after she let them in, have been caught and handed over to police, the Guyana Police Force said. Those arrested are 25-year old Jose Fraser of Lot 41 Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara and 20-year old Jaleel Thomas of 603 Cinema Street, Diamond, East Bank Demerara. ...