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An Air Traffic Controller (ATC) exited the tower at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport around midnight Friday at the same time a Caribbean Airlines aircraft was preparing to land. Reports are that the controller was angry that he was not relieved of his eight-hour shift which ended at midnight particularly at a time he was feeling unwell. The young man ...

The Guyana Nurses Association (GNA) on Friday called on the Ministry of Health to stop taking in more students at nursing schools countywide until overcrowding and poor teaching and learning conditions are addressed. “For some time now, we remained silent while the powers that be consciously or unconsciously manipulated all affairs and aspects of nursing bringing our profession to what ...

Former Trinidad and Tobago Prime Minister, Basdeo Panday Thursday night endorsed calls for his country, Guyana and Suriname forge closer trade relations among and target Latin America because the 15-nation Caribbean Community (Caricom) was on the brink of collapse. “My advice would be to consider this suggestion that Trinidad and Tobago, Guyana and Suriname may well find it beneficial to ...

The Working Peoples Alliance (WPA)- yet to decide whether it would participate in a Commission of Inquiry into the bomb-blast death of its late leader Walter Rodney- has urged President Donald Ramotar to erase a contentious term of reference that has nothing to do with Rodney’s death. In a letter to the Guyanese leader on Friday, the WPA objected to ...

A man accused of breaking in to the Brickdam Police Station’s Mess Hall and also spending GUY$500 a constable had given him to buy a phone card was Friday convicted. Police accused Leon Faria of breaking and entering the Brickdam Police Station, and fraudulent conversion. Prosecutor Dinero Jones said that on March 5 about 8 PM, the Mess Hall was ...

A 42-year old man was fatally injured early Friday morning at Westminster in the Parfait Harmonie area and police have arrested his wife and daughter in connection with his death. Dead is Dennis Harris Jr, of West Minister, Parfait Harmonie, West Bank Demerara. Reports are that around 3 am this morning , the man and his wife had a confrontation ...

Four suspected bandits, who were probably planning to rob an East Bank Demerara gas station, were arrested by police after they fled the area. Investigators said a handgun was found in possession of one of the suspects. Police said that about 1030 AM Thursday, the police were alerted concerning four men along with a parked motor car and motor cycle ...

A resident of Mahdia is dead and several other members of the Full Gospel Church were injured in a collision between a lorry and Tapir vehicle on the Soesdyke Highway. They were on their way to a crusade at Bellvue, West Coast Demerara for a crusade. Police said the dead man has been identified as 22-year old Clifton Marks of ...

Three officers of the Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) were Thursday afternoon arrested in a sting operation after they allegedly certified a fuel tanker in exchange for a large sum of cash. Police said the GNBS staffers were nabbed at their Sophia Exhibition Site office moments after the owner of the truck tanker handed over at least GUY$150,000. DemWaves ...

The Institute of Applied Science and Technology (IAST) has been playing a major role in transforming Guyana to an environmentally friendly economy, through the recycling of a variety of ‘waste materials’.   Director of the IAST, Professor Dr. Suresh Narine, sought to shed some light on some of the recycling procedures and activities being undertaken by the institute, during a ...