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The burning to death of 20 children in the Mahdia Secondary School’s girls dormitory and an upsurge in gun crimes are responsible for a so far 14.8 percent rise in serious crimes for 2023 compared to a slump during  the past two years, Home Affairs Minister Robeson Benn said Wednesday night. “At the moment, even though we have a target ...

Minister of Education, Priya Manickchand Wednesday night announced that the Mahdia Secondary School’s girls dormitory would most likely not be rebuilt there and a number of girls would instead be transferred to President’s College, Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara. “Our consultation with the community and all the stakeholders have produced a reluctance to build another dormitory at the location,” she ...

Decisionmakers on Wednesday were encouraged to involve youths and children in climate policy formation and action at the opening of a three-day Advocacy and Youth Forum, at the Pegasus Hotel, Kingston, Georgetown, the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) said Wednesday. The three-day forum is being held by the Rights of the Child Commission (RCC) in collaboration with UNICEF Guyana in ...

A man, who was arrested recently with GY$27 million worth of cocaine at a cargo company near the Cheddi Jagan Airport, was Wednesday sentenced to four years imprisonment and fined GY$39 million, according to the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) That agency said Christopher Douglas of Lot 1070 Providence,  East Bank Demerara & 127 King Edward Street, Albouystown, Georgetown pleaded guilty ...

A man and his common law wife have been arrested in connection with the alleged discovery of three guns and 173 rounds of ammunition at their residence at Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo, police said Wednesday. In custody are 35-year old Delon “Gizmo” Osborne and his child’s mother, Joyann Sobers of Lot 2 Archer Street Vergenoegen, East Bank Essequibo. Police said ...

Former well-known Guyanese journalist, now a New York-based Attorney-at-Law Dr Vivian M. Williams, Esq. and Adjunct Professor, has been included in Marquis Who’s Who, the entity said in a statement. Dr Williams can also practice in Guyana, and Trinidad and Tobago, As in all Marquis Who’s Who biographical volumes, individuals profiled are selected on the basis of current reference value. ...

The apex private sector organisations in Guyana and the Dominican Republic (DR) on Tuesday signed a memorandum of understanding in Santo Domingo, the capital of that Spanish-speaking Caribbean nation  According to the document signed by the President of the DR’s  non-governmental National Council of Private Enterprise, Inc; (CONEP), Celso J. Marranzini and the President of the Private Sector Commissi0n (PSC), ...

ExxonMobil will be asked for greater share in new production from 2030 The parliamentary opposition A Partnership for National Unity+Alliance For Change (APNU+AFC) is proposing a series of amendments to Guyana’s draft Petroleum Activities law that, if approved, will guarantee a fixed royalty rate of 10 to 15 percent and a production share of 60-40 percent. Currently, the royalty on ...

Port News reports that the Offshore Patrol Vessel was designed by Metal Shark’s in-house engineering team and built at the company’s Franklin, Louisiana production facility for the Guyana Defence Force. Last week Metal Shark hosted members of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) for the launch of the GDF’s new Metal Shark 115 Defiant patrol vessel “GDFS Berbice,” (1039), the shipbuilding ...

Three persons from Charity, Essequibo Coast died Monday night in accident on the Craig Public Road, East Bank Demerara when the car they were travelling in allegedly made a ‘U’ turn from the eastern lane to the western lane and collided with a lorry that was heading north, police said. Those who perished in the mishap are Eric Christopher Thomas,60, ...