A 20-year old man, who escaped from the Lusignan Prison where he is serving time for robbery under arms, was Wednesday morning recaptured, the Guyana Prison Service said. “It is alleged that the accused was working on the prison farm when a truck entered the prison compound through the eastern gate and the suspect exited the said gate and made ...

The Rice Producers Association (RPA) on Wednesday floated the idea of importing labour for that grain industry because of a shortage of workers due to lower birthrates, but said so far no application has been made to the government to grant work permits. “For us to address the situation immediately, government needs to import labour and the importation of labour ...

Attorney General Anil Nandlall has sought to justify the splitting of Region Four (Demerara-Mahaica) into four electoral districts. “District number four is a special district in the electoral equation of our country. It is the most populated. It always has the greatest number of controversy so what we are proposing in these amendments, we are subdividing it,”  he said on ...

Two persons have been jointly charged today in relation to the alleged murder committed on Dr. Colin Roach earlier this month, police said. They are 19-year old Hilton Oliver Franklin and 18-year old Lenrick Byass. Police alleged that they murdered Dr Roach on the 2nd November, 2021 at his International Medical Clinic at 111 Duke Street, Kingston “in the course ...

Seven staff members of the Georgetown City Council’s Treasurer’s Department have been fired for alleged gross misconduct. The Local Government Commission says the decision was made unanimously to summarily dismiss the workers, following an internal probe while they had been sent on leave. “At the conclusion of the investigation, it was determined that the seven individuals were direct participants in ...

by Clement Rohee The Symposium on Police Integrity held recently to discuss integrity in policing raises a number of questions. The fundamental question has to do with the concept of integrity and it’s application to extant institutional and constitutional arrangements in Guyana. First on the question of integrity; According to England’s Lord Justice, John Fletcher Moulton; ““The true test of ...

Wide-ranging long-term studies on suicide will be conducted to determine the major risk factors for suicide in Guyana which has one of the highest rates worldwide, according Professor Christina Hoven at Columbia University. She told the opening of the Guyana Mental Health and Well-Being Conference that the study by the United States National Institute on Mental Health would begin in ...

Guyanese doctors and ultimately patients are poised to benefit from specialised training and health sector research, under an accord between the Ministry of Health and Canada’s Mc Master University, Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony said. “It is a big deal in terms of post graduate training for doctors. I am hoping we can send persons in different sub specialties,” he ...

Former House Speaker, Senior Counsel Ralph Ramkarran on Sunday urged government to swiftly establish the Judicial Service Commission and that steps be taken to appoint more High Court judges and increase the required number of judges  for the Court of Appeal in an effort to deal with the backlog of cases. “In addressing the issue of the shortage of judges, ...

by Abu Bakr It is with great concern that I read  some days ago that VP Jagdeo has been considering the need for immigration to satisfy our employment deficit as oil money flows in to finance infrastructure and other work. It is a conditionto which I have been giving thought. We have a small population and our situation is similar ...