A strike in the East Berbice sugar belt on Tuesday spread from Skeldon to Albion to protest the immediate dismissal of a worker who slapped the Skeldon Estate Manager,  according to a senior official of the Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guysuco). This is contrary to Agriculture Minister, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy saying that the workers were expected to fully resume duty on ...

Workers at Skeldon Sugar Estate were Monday trickling back to work at the end of a three-day strike and burning of sugar cane  that were sparked off by the immediate dismissal of a worker who allegedly assaulted the Estate Manager. The strike has already hit the Guyana Power and Light very hard because no electricity is being generated by that ...

A Memorandum of Understanding signed between the Government of Guyana and the United Kingdom has paved the way for training and mentoring for the staff of the Special Organised Crime Unit (SOCU) created by the government to investigate money laundering crimes, according to the Government Information Agency (GINA). Signing on the ruling administration’s behalf today, was Head of the Presidential ...

The High Court on Monday ordered a 22-year old man to cease publishing allegations against House Speaker, Raphael Trotman and further ordered him to remove all such allegations from his Facebook Page, the Alliance For Change (AFC) said in a statement. An injunction has been granted barring Johnny Anthony Welshman from publishing whether in the print or electronic media any ...

The Guyana Power and Light Inc (GPL) on Monday said strike action by workers at Skeldon Sugar Estate, which supplies bagasse-produced electricity to the national grid, coupled with a number of other technical problems has forced the power company to schedule blackout to a number of areas. “GuySuCo is unable to supply energy to the grid because of industrial action ...

(UMSL DAILY http://blogs.umsl.edu/)  Gyanpriya Maharaj had already collaborated with Godfrey R. Bourne on several ecological projects before enrolling at the University of Missouri–St. Louis. Maharaj studied butterflies with Bourne in her home country, Guyana, before joining the biology associate professor’s UMSL lab in 2012. In that time she has made steady progress and is now a third-year doctoral candidate in biology. ...

A man was Monday arraigned for allegedly wounding his mother after she refused to give him money. Yogesh Manilall pleaded not guilty to unlawfully and maliciously wounding his mother, Surujdai Manilall, on September 18 on Robb Street, Georgetown. He was remanded to prison until October 21. Police Prosecutor told the court that the woman was at a business enterprise when  ...

One of three gold miners, who were tied and beaten by robbers at Issano, died early Monday morning at a city hospital. He has been identified as Joseph Nurse of Belmonte, Mahaica, East Coast Demerara. Investigators learnt that Nurse and two of his workers were attacked and beaten by two men who were armed with a piece of wood and ...

Police on Monday said hey were probing why a man entered a house at Pafaite Harmonie and set it ablaze, killing a man named Jason. Crime sleuths hoped that a man they arrested could assist them in solving the crime. Investigators said his charred remains were found in a house at 201Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara, at about 2 O’clock Monday ...

Police were still questioning a 22-year old man who accused House Speaker, Raphael Trotman of sexually molesting him when he was 13 years old and showering him with goodies to hush up. Chief of the Criminal Investigations Department, Senior Superintendent Leslie James said investigators were checking aspects of the report before deciding whether to question Trotman. “We must exhaust what ...