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The Albouystown and Headstart Nursery Schools will remain closed on Thursday due to ongoing flood conditions, the Education Ministry announced. “The Ministry of Education will provide further information on the reopening of these schools as ongoing assessments continue,” said the ministry in a brief statement. Those that will be reopened on Thursday now that the flood waters have receded are ...

Although the policeman allegedly involved in the baton-sodomy of a detainee has been placed under close arrest and several others transferred, civil society organisations Wednesday afternoon believed that was so far insufficient. More than 50 persons braved heavy rain and picketed outside the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC) where 23-year old Colwyn Harding remained a patient suffering from severe rupture ...

The Home Affairs Ministry on Wednesday said a policeman’s alleged sodomizing of a detainee with a condom-covered baton makes a “mockery” of police reform. “Such breaches fly in the face of the efforts at Police Reform and makes a mockery of the hard work by the Ministry of Home Affairs and the Strategic Management Department of the Guyana Police Force ...

In the wake of mounting condemnaation, the Guyana Police Force on Wednesday warned that stern action would be taken against members of the force found culpable of the baton-sodomy of Colwyn Harding who remained hospitalised in a serious condition with ruptured intestines “The Guyana Police Force wishes to emphatically state that unbecoming behaviour by members of the Force will not ...

The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) is forging ahead with a programme designed to harmonise the measurement of literacy data to advance the production of reliable information for better decision making in this area, the regional headquarters said on Wednesday. Education officials, statisticians and other experts gathered in Barbados on Tuesday and Wednesday for the CARICOM Fourth Technical Workshop on a Common ...

Work at the gold-bearing Omai area is expected to begin later this month, Mahdia Gold Corporation announced on Monday. The company said its joint venture partner has already begun moving mining equipment from Georgetown, Guyana to Omai shortly after the beginning of 2014. “The equipment is currently being assembled and is scheduled to be operational this month. There is expected ...

As preparations begin for protests in London and Georgetown against police brutality, a police constable who allegedly ruptured the anus and intestines of a detainee with a baton remained under close arrest, according to police sources. The sources said the matter was also engaging the attention of the Office of Professional Responsibility. 23-year old Colwyn Harding remains in a serious ...

The Ministry of Education has announced that  12 schools in Georgetown and one in Region Three will remain closed on Wednesday, January 15, 2014 as a result of severe rainfall which has caused flooding of their compounds. The schools to remain closed are as follows: Georgetown 1. Tutorial High 2. East Ruimveldt Secondary 3. The Bishops’ High 4. Queenstown Secondary ...

The 28-year old man, who stabbed to death his 16-year old girlfriend and dumped her body in a creek at Kuru Kururu, committed suicide near his mother’s residence on the Essequibo Coast, police said. Dead is Leon Rodrigues, a gold miner. Police said that the man’s body was founding hanging in a house he was building for himself a short ...

The baby girl who was abducted from a day care centre Monday afternoon was early Tuesday evening removed from a house at Pouderoyen, West Bank Demerara, according to well-placed sources. Police were called in after the alleged abductor, Candace Adonis, turned up at a relative with four-month old Miracle Angel Price saying that the baby was hers. Investigators were summoned ...