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A father, who pleaded guilty to a cocaine-trafficking charge and sought to take the rap for his son charged with a similar offence, was Monday jailed and fined. He was jailed and his son pleaded not guilty and was remanded to prison. They were due to leave for the United States (US) last week when they were held at the ...

As an increase in tuition fees beckons at the University of Guyana (UG), the nation’s premier tertiary institution will undertake a series of stakeholder consultations this week which will ultimately justify the “adjustment”. The consultations will commence tomorrow Tuesday, June 24 from 10 am to 2pm with staff of UG, and continue from 2:30 until 4:30 with the student population ...

Retired Lt. Col, Joseph Harmon Monday morning withdrew representation of the Peoples National Congress Reform (PNCR) and instead opted to give his legal services to retired servicemen at the Walter Rodney Commission of Inquiry. Under the umbrella of the Ex GDF (Guyana Defence Force) Association, Harmon intends to also offer representation to former members of the now defunct Guyana National ...

Guyanese Lisa Punch Sunday night scored 80 percent and made it through to the next round of the US network ABC’s Rising Star,a musical competition. The second person to appear on the show, Punch sang Whitney Houston’s “How Will I Know” moments after she talked a but about her Guyanese background and her aspirations for social and economic mobility in ...

Former radio communications expert with the 1935-1938 British Guiana-Brazil Boundary Commission, Cecil Cunha has died. He died on Friday,June 20, five days away from his 100th birthday. Cunha, a former member of the People’s National Congress (PNC), would be buried on Thursday after a church service at the St. Andrew’s Kirk. He is the recipient of a Medal of Service, ...

A gay rights group on Sunday expressed alarm that Guyana’s modern Education Bill tabled in the House last week does not make sexual orientation discrimination a crime. The Society Against Sexual Orientation Discrimination (SASOD) says government has so far squandered a good opportunity to help outlaw bullying on the basis of sexual orientation. “The government is missing a golden opportunity ...

Former Pro-Chancellor of the University of Guyana Dr. Prem Misir, Ph.D., MPH, M. Phil, B.S.Sc. (Honours), FRSPH has been appointed Executive Director of the Health Sector Development Unit (HSDU), Ministry of Health, Government of Guyana, with effect from June 5, 2014. Dr. Misir has more than ten (10) years of experience in leadership and management in complex organizations which will ...

Four engineers of the Sea and River Defence Department of the Ministry of Public Works are scheduled for a technical working visit to the United States of America. This was revealed by Public Works Minister Robeson Benn during a recent interview. “ The Minister was responding to a question regarding the securing of Guyana’s sea defence, in light of the ...

Local Government Minister, Norman Whittaker and City Mayor, Hamilton Green openly differed on the elected councilors being sidelined by central government in crafting a clean-up plan and the acquisition of capital equipment. Whittaker refused to answer Green’s claims that millions of dollars have been spent on purchasing two second-hand waste collection trucks, one of which is defective, for Georgetown. After ...

A Lance Corporal of City Constabulary is believed to have committed suicide after an investigation revealed that an estimated GUY$1 million had gone missing, well placed sources said. The body of 47-year old Compton Joseph was found in his house at Sophia, just days after a internal audit revealed that the money could not have been accounted for. Most of ...