Two Guyanese, one Grenadian and one national of Trinidad and Tobago Saturday night copped the Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence 2017 that was held in Georgetown, the Guyanese capital. The laureates are Mr. Winslow Craig (Arts and Letters) -Guyana ; Kwame Ryan (Arts and Letters)- Trinidad and Tobago; Shadek Nyack Compton (Entrepreneurship)- Grenada and Christopher Arif Bulkan (Public ...

The construction of a GYD$20 million arch over the East Coast Demerara Public Road-in honour of Guyana’s 50th Independence and indicating the eastern entrance to Guyana’s capital, Georgetown- symbolises Caricom integration, President David Granger said Saturday. “This arch defines the boundaries of our capital. It exemplifies private-public partnership. It epitomises the friendship between two Anglo-phone Caribbean states- Guyana and, Trinidad ...

A gold miner from Central Rupununi, who was guarding a sluice box at a camp in Potaro, was chopped to death and a number of gold mats stolen, police said. Dead is 56-year old Damon “Rastaman’ Scipio of Moco-Moco. “Investigation so far revealed that the victim who was employed by a small-scale mining company at 111 miles Madhia, was performing duties ...

A man, who tried to bribe a policeman with GYD$500,000 to release his 19-year old son, has been arrested and the cash lodged, the Guyana Police F0rce said in a statement. Investigators did not name the man, but said he is 39-years old and lives in “C” Field, Sophia, Greater Georgetown. Police said the man had hoped that his son, ...

Guyana National Cybersecurity Incident Response Team (GNCIRT) confirms that a global ransomware attack is currently in progress. The self-spreading ransomware, known as ‘Wanna Cry’ or ‘Wanna Decryptor’, exploits a vulnerability in Microsoft’s Windows operating system. It is believed that this ransomware is spread through phishing emails, malicious adverts on websites, and questionable apps and programs. IT Leaders are advised to ...

  Two men and one woman were early Friday morning arrested and several items suspected to have been stolen were seized by police. The Guyana Police Force said the “intelligence-led operation” at Bagotstown and Friendship, East Bank Demerara led to the arrest of the persons who were all found with narcotics in their possession. “One of the males who was ...

Guyana’s Finance Minister, Winston Jordan is peeved that his country and several other sister Caribbean Community (Caricom) nations have been listed by the United States (US) as “major money laundering countries.” “It is denial of all of the efforts that we in the Caribbean have been making to make our countries safer, to rid our countries of bad money and ...

The Guyana Postal and Telecommunications Workers Union (GP&TWU) on Friday warned the Guyana Telephone and Telegraph Company (GTT) that if it does not abide by a High Court order on plans to send home 120 workers more legal action would be taken. GPTWU General Secretary, Eslyn Harris said after the Consent Order, GTT did not provide proper information at a ...

Representatives from Guyana and twelve other countries in Latin America and the Caribbean will be in Vitória, Brazil from May 16 to 18, to learn about the Brazilian experience of School Feeding Programmes and purchasing from Family Farming, the Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO) said in a statement. The visit is an international exchange mission promoted by the Internal Cooperation ...

The Government is heightening its work with Non-Governmental Organisations (NGOs), and other agencies in Region Two, Pomeroon-Supenaam, to tackle suicide and attempted cases. Minister within the Ministry of Public Health, Dr. Karen Cummings and a team from the Mental Health Unit of the Ministry of Public Health, on Thursday visited a family of one of the attempted suicide victims as ...