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A Guyana Defence Force plane crashed on Wednesday at Camp Jaguar in the New River are, but no one was injured, the army said in a statement. “None of the persons on board was injured,” the GDF said. Well-placed sources said the plane was badly damaged. The GDF explained that the plane, bearing registration GDF-3, crashed on landing at about ...

Efforts continue to intensify to build the capacity of National Statistics Offices, and provide high quality statistics in the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), acccording to the Guyana-based regional headquarters. The latest step in this regard is a consultancy, funded by the European Union (EU) under the Tenth European Development Fund (EDF) CARICOM Single Market and Economy (CSME) and Economic Integration Programme. ...

Elvin Mc David, a former Political Assistant to then Prime Minister Forbes Burnham, has died, according to the People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR). He passed away in Jamaica where he had been residing with his son while receiving medical attention for complications related to diabetes, according to other sources. The PNCR says it extends its deepest condolences to Mr. Mc ...

Police patrolling the Wowasie Creek area, Potaro River seized two guns and ammunition in little more than two hours on Monday. The first seizure of one .30 revolver and 13 matching rounds were found about 3 PM in possession of a man. Police said the gun and ammo were in his pants pocket. Another .38 revolver was found stashed in ...

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. ...