Sugar workers at all estates across the country were Monday on strike because management has refused to hold negotiations for increased pay until the disclosure of the findings of a Commission of Inquiry into the ailing Guyana Sugar Corporation (Guyscuo) President of the Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU), Komal Chand told Demerara Waves Online News that  it was ...

Reproduced from DNAInfoby Katie Honan EAST HARLEM — NYPD divers recovered a firearm from the East River early Sunday that may have been used to fatally shoot Police Officer Randolph Holder last week, officials said. Scuba divers from the NYPD’s Harbor Unit searched in the dark of the river on their stomachs, finding the Glock .40 at 3 a.m. Sunday, according to Manhattan Chief ...

Reproduced from New York Timesby Liz Robbins After the candles started dripping and a police commander wiped his tears, Randolph Holder Sr. walked from the clutch of his extended family and addressed those standing in the back of the vigil held for his son, a police officer killed in the line of duty. “Ladies and gentlemen, I just wanted to ...

Check your breasts! That was the message Sunday from the Cancer Institute of Guyana moments before receiving a GUY$500,000 donation from Digicel (Guyana) at the conclusion of the annual Cancer Awareness Road Race. “As you know breast cancer is on the increase. So many of our women are dying today of breast cancer so I urge you today to encourage ...

Reproduced from www.standardspeaker.com by Jill Whalen When local pilot Bob Delese learned that it can take up to 14 days to reach the nearest medical facility in Guyana, he knew he had to help. Delese, of Freeland, traveled to the South American country earlier this year to fly a medical transport plane for the nonprofit Remote Area Medical (RAM). By air, ...

Faced with rising sea levels, weakened sections of the coastal sea defence and blocked outfalls, the head of the National Task Force Commission (NTFC) Retired Major General Joseph Singh has recommended the use of more groynes. Briefing the media on the multi-disciplinary task force’s work so far to help restore Guyana as a land of great attractiveness and prosperity, he ...

Five persons are expected to be charged with the home invasion and armed robbery committed on a family at Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara earlier this week. “Diligent work by ranks of “D” Division will soon see the perpetrators of the Armed Robbery committed on the Sookrams’ Family of 82 Samaroo Dam, Pouderoyen, WBD, which occurred last Thursday, being charged and ...

A businesswoman was early Saturday morning beaten several times to her face and head with a handgun during a robbery just outside her home at Better Hope, East Coast Demerara. She is 36 years old Novaha Boodhoo of 88 Pulwari Street, Better Hope, East Coast Demerara. She told police that one of the bandits beat her with the firearm after ...

Police say they are probing the shooting death of a car rental agent during the pre-dawn hours of Saturday morning at Regent and Bourda Streets, Georgetown. Dead is Stanley “Steve” Lovell, 30 years of 64 Prashad Nagar, Georgetown.  During the incident that occurred at about 3 AM, 21 years old Anthony Lall, a cleaner, of Bent Street, Wortmanville, Georgetown, was ...

The driver of a car has been arrested in connection with the hit-and-run road death of a former student of Mackenzie High School and Brickdam Secondary School during the early hours of Saturday morning, police said.l Preliminary information is that 16-year old Denelson Rose of Noitgedahe, Linden was returning to his home at Fairsrust after friends put him off at the Five ...