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Five persons were Thursday handed lengthy jail terms for robberies committed at the Bel Air Gardens home of city businessman, Malcolm Panday, three years ago. The five- including Panday’s mother-in-law Chadradha Rampersaud- were sentenced to four years each on two counts of robbery under arms but they will only serve four years because they sentences will run concurrently. The others ...

A group of young people in Guyana will get an opportunity to learn valuable animation skills through a project coordinated by the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) Secretariat, the regional headquarters said in a statement. The project, which is being implemented in collaboration with Animae Caribe and the Guyana Ministry of Culture, Youth and Sport, is designed around the use of animation ...

LIMA, July 24, 2014—Every week, public school students in Latin America and the Caribbean are deprived of the equivalent of one full day of class, according to a new World Bank report. The source: the low teacher effectiveness. Based on unprecedented research involving the observation of more than 15,000 classrooms in 3,000 primary and secondary schools in seven Latin American ...

(WNBC-TV – NBCNewYork.com).-A 42-year-old Brooklyn woman has been charged in the killing of a missing mother of four whose partially dismembered body was found in a parking lot on Long Island earlier this month, police say. Leah Cuevas is charged with second-degree murder in the death of 27-year-old Chinelle Latoya Browne, who lived at the same Brooklyn address as the ...

Residents in Rupununi, southern Guyana can now tap into a GUY$60 million Investment Fund to fund a range of small and medium scale agriculture and tourism enterprised, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported.Funding is being provided by the Guyana government, in collaboration with the Guyana Bank for Trade and Industry and Conservation International (CI) Guyana. Authorities hope that communities in ...

Amid assertions by the governing People’s Progressive Party (PPP) that the Alliance For Change’s (AFC) push for a no-confidence motion against the government is aimed at influencing this weekend’s congress of the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR), one of the latter party’s candidates promises to support the vote if elected party leader. Region 10 Chairman, Sharma Solomon said in a ...

The mother-in-law of city businessman, Malcolm Panday, and four accomplices were Tuesday convicted for multi-million dollar armed robbery committed on him three years ago. Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry ruled that the five were guilty. They were remanded to prison until Thursday when they would know their jail sentences. Those convicted for the July, 2011 robbery at Panday’s residence,  Bel Air, ...

The man allegedly linked to the death of four persons who drank cocaine-laced SSS Tonic was Wednesday arraigned on a cocaine-trafficking charge. He is 34-year old Deon “Barney” Layne of HH East La Penitence. Layne pleaded not guilty to being in possession of 252 grammes of cocaine on May 2 at Kokerite Street, Georgetown. Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry refused Layne ...

Government on Wednesday called on the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) to prove that it is ready for local government elections or early general and regional elections. Reacting to assurances by GECOM Chairman, Dr. Steve Surujbally that the electoral management body would be ready for the local poll once the Local Government Minister issues the order, Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon ...

The Caribbean Organisation of Tax Administration (COTA) on Monday announced the winners of the essay competition that was launched earlier this year under the theme “The tax code is a road map for law abiding citizens and businesses to pay what they legally owe, not an obstacle course to be gamed and gotten around”. This competition was aimed at stimulating ...