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The US$30M power plant being constructed at Vreed-en-Hoop , when switched on in July, is expected to increase generating capacity from a current 87 megawatts to 106 megawatts in Demerara, officials said Friday. Prime Minister Samuel Hinds along with the Guyana Power and Light’s (GPL’s) Chief Executive Officer, Bharrat Dindyal and Chairman of the power company’s Board of Directors, Winston ...

(TRINIDAD EXPRESS).-GUYANESE nationals have featured prominently as both “overstayers and undocumented migrant workers” in Trinidad and Tobago, according to statistics from that country’s Police Service’s Crime and Problem Analysis Branch (CAPA), a research report on invisible immigrants has stated. The 89-page report, entitled “Invisible Immigrants: A profile of irre­g­ular migration, smuggling of mi­grants and trafficking in persons in Trinidad and ...

Customs Anti Narcotics Unit (CANU) agents have seized cocaine in milk powder from a foreigner and they want a Guyanese man to assist in the probe. Head of CANU, James Singh said Mark Sauers was wanted in connection with the bust on Friday, January 17 at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA). He was born on November 15, 1989 and ...

A man and his son were Friday afternoon struck down by a car on the Essequibo Coast public road. Police said the accident occured about 2 PM when Muntaz Baksh, 72 years, and his son Rasmat Baksh, 44 years, of Land of Plenty, Essequibo Coast, were walking along the Land of Plenty main road, Investigators have been so far told ...

A team of American doctors is here to exchange strategies and techniques in the fight against non-communicable diseases (NCDs) regarded as a leading causing of death in Guyana and the Caribbean. “The focus of this medical exchange on non-communicable diseases could not be more timely or relevant, for we have made strides in addressing communicable diseases, NCDs have emerged as ...

Three clerks of Muneshwers Limited women appeared before Chief Magistrate Priya Sewnarine-Beharry on Friday to answer separate embezzlement charges at the Georgetown Magistrates’ court. Subrina Rahamat of Lot 2887 Well Road North Ruimveldt, pleaded not guilty to three counts of embezzlement, particulars of which said that, being employed as a clerk at Muneshwers Limited, she embezzled the sum of GUY$223,972 ...

The Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) on Friday said it was probing a complaint that a number of prison officers Thursday went into the ward and wrestled a cellular phone from the man who has accused police of sodomizing him with a baton. A hospital official would only say that the health care institution was aware of a report and ...

23-year old Colwyn Harding Friday afternoon said he made several failed attempts to quietly tell authorities and nurses that a policeman had sodomized with a baton but he was ashamed to do so. He rejected claims by doctors at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) that he was suffering from strangulated hernia, causing him to undergo emergency surgeries in December. ...

The Guyana Defence Force (GDF) on Friday announced the promotion of 88 officersd and 260 Other Ranks effective from January 1,2014, The army said that in accordance with the Defence Act Chapter 15:01 of 1977, Chief-of-Staff Brigadier Mark Phillips, has announced that the President and Commander-in-Chief, Donald Ramotar has approved the Forty-two Officers and 96 Other Ranks were confirmed in ...

Doctors treating a man for incarcerated inguinal hernia on Friday said they were never told that a policeman shoved a condom-covered baton up his anus and examinations have not proven such claims. Up to 10:02 AM, 23-year old Colwyn Harding was seen shackled to a bed in the Male Medical Ward and under guard by a prison warden. He was ...