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The Ministry of Natural Resources and the Environment, through the Protected Areas Commission, has commenced the rehabilitation of the entrance road to the Guyana Zoological Park. The ministry says work is expected to take three months and address issues of flooding and erosion common to the previous road.  This project is part of a larger effort to rehabilitate and modernize ...

The cream of the crop of the 2013 National and Regional examinations were recognised and rewarded for their sterling performance on Thursday at an award ceremony held at the National Cultural Centre. This annual ceremony recognises the best performers at all tiers of the education system including National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA), Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC), Guyana Technical Education ...

After years of bickering over the right to sell or procure aviation fuel at the Ogle International Airport, Air Services Limited (ASL) has been given the green-light to begin purchasing and selling the commodity. Ogle Airport Inc (OAI) announced that Air Services Limited (ASL) would now be licensed as a Commercial Fuel Handling Agent at Ogle Airport. ASL, according to ...

A huge fire on Wednesday destroyed the Payless Bond situated in Eccles, East Bank Demerara.The origin of the fire, which began sometime after 7:00 PM, was not immediately known. When Demerara Waves Online News (www.demwaves.com) arrived at the scene, part of the building was engulfed, while the compound housing it was already ablaze due to chemicals being on the ground. ...

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) has sent on “administrative” leave its Director of Financial Services and an Accounts Clerk as a probe continues into multi-million dollar fraud. “This decision took immediate effect so that the probe into the disappearance of funds from the Institution could be continued,” the hospital said in a statement. The GPHC did not release the ...

The Guyana government on Thursday announced that it was moving to amend the Procurement Act to ensure that Cabinet retains an oversight role in the award of contracts but this is not expected to win the Alliance For Change’s (AFC) support for amendments to the financial crimes legislation. Cabinet Secretary Dr. Roger Luncheon told a news conference that government would ...

City businessman Rondy Jagdeo allegedly shot dead his “close” friend, Kurt Davis, because he had received information that he was seen kissing his wife in a night club, the court was told Wednesday. Jagdeo was Wednesday arraigned for allegedly murdering Davis on September 3 at Eccles, East Bank Demerara. Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry remanded the businessman to prison until November ...

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS).-A Guyanese woman and her ailing two-year-old son, a Trinidad national, were deported hours after the child was discharged from hospital on Monday night. The child’s mother, Rosinda Nicholson, who arrived in Trinidad five years ago, is now appealing to Minister of Health Fuad Khan to intervene. Her sister, Errolyn Pierre, said the mother and son arrived at their ...

A retired member of the Georgetown City Constabulary who slashed his ex girlfriend’s throat and stabbed her outside a church was Tuesday charged with attempted murder. Godfrey Lammy of 5 Laing Avenue, Georgetown was not required to plea to the charge.’ The prosecution’s case is that he attempted to murder 42-year old Denise Hope on Wellington Street, Georgetown on Saturday, ...

Several surgeries were postponed and a number of patients were sponged because of a disruption in water supply at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation due to power surge, hospital sources said. “A few surgeries were cancelled as a result of the unavailability of water in the operating theatres,” the GPHC said in a statement. The usually reliable sources confirmed that ...