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The Guyana government is poised to grant Digicel (Guyana) Limited approval to run a submarine fibre-optic cable that would see mobile phone subscribers getting a higher quality service and the company investing in a number of other areas. The first signal that the government was about to formally inform the phone company of its decision came last Friday from Former ...

A 24-year old woman was Monday jailed for stealing more than GUY$3 million from the Child Maintenance Department of the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court while she was a cashier there three years ago. Tiffany Peters of Garden of Eden, East Bank Demerara was convicted  for stealing GUY$3,045,000 between February 7, 2012 and September 11, 2012. She was jailed for 60 months. Her ...

Local Government Minister, Norman Whittaker Monday afternoon ruled out residents of Peter’s Hall and Providence receiving 100 percent compensation for damage and destruction caused by a flood when high tides demolished a sluice and water from the Demerara River gushed in. The flood-affected residents of the East Bank Demerara communities left a meeting with Local Government Minister, Norman Whittaker and ...

Publisher of the privately-owned Kaieteur News newspaper, Glen Lall and his wife, Bhena Lall, were Monday arraigned on tax evasion charges in connection with two Lexus SUVs that were imported by an elderly couple under the duty-free re-migrant scheme. The Lalls pleaded not guilty to the charges and were released by Chief Magistrate, Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on their own recognizance. They ...

(TRINIDAD NEWSDAY).-A man who police described as key to the investigation into the assassination of State Prosecutor Dana Seetahal SC is now being closely monitored by police and other authorities in Guyana. The man who is in his early thirties, left for Guyana last week stating on his travel document that he was going on vacation.  Newsday understands immigration authorities ...

A 50 year old Boiler Operator employed with the John and Jason Tulshi Rice Mill located at Number 49 Village Corentyne perished after the boiler he was attending to exploded. Phillip Gangaprashad of Number 47 Village succumbed while on his way to the Skeldon Hospital   The cause of the explosion is currently unknown and According to Supervisor of the ...

Inaugural Walter Rodney Professor at the University of Guyana, Ali Mazrui died early Monday morning in the United States (US) after a period of illness. He was 81 years old. The renowned Kenyan academic was appointed to the position at UG in honour of Rodney, an internationally respected Guyanese historian and politician, who died on June 13, 1980. Activists and ...

A Rupununi farmer, who was allegedly beaten by several men almost two weeks ago, died on Sunday, police said. He has been identified as 52-year old Clifton Clement of Hiawa Village, Central Rupununi. Investigators said Clement was imbibing and was beaten by several men on October 1 in the vicinity of the Takatu Bridge, Lethem. He had been admitted to ...

Guyana has a mass preparedness campaign on-stream as the dreaded Ebola virus continues to cause worldwide uproar. This is according to Dr. Johanna Cole, Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s (GPHC) Internal Medicine-Infectious Diseases, Consultant. Speaking at a Continued Medical Education (CME) session this morning at the Regency Hotel, Hadfield Street, Dr. Cole noted that the Ministry of Health has taken on ...

Wary of fruitless negotiations, staff and pensioners of the cash-strapped Caribbean Agricultural Research Institute (CARDI) have complained bitterly about a  12-year old “wage freeze”, late payment of salaries and pensions, and increased workloads. The formal complaint was lodged to the just concluded Board of Governors meeting in Suriname that coincided with the holding of the  13th Caribbean Week of Agriculture ...