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Newly appointed Chairman of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL, Komal Samaroo on Monday said the company would revive a campaign against selling rum to underage persons and would be willing to contribute to the rehabilitation of alcoholics. “Some parts of the country we ran into a particular challenge in getting retailers to subscribe to that programme and one of the things ...

The man, who allegedly shot dead his ex girlfriend on Old Year’s Night, was caught early Thursday morning moments before he was about to flee to Suriname, police said. Deputy Police Commissioner, Seelall Persaud said the man was arrested at the Springlands back track, Corentyne River. He has been identified as Jermaine Maynard of Leopold and Cross Streets, Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown. ...

Guyana Tuesday night- Old Year’s Night- recorded what might have been its last reported homicide when a man shot his female companion in her head, police said. She is 20 year old Carlissa Matthews of North Ruimveldt, Georgetown. The incident occurred near KFC, Water Street, Stabroek about 11:45 PM. Investigators were told that Matthews. a former student of North Ruimveldt ...

A Linden businesswoman is entering the New Year without her only means of livelihood because a squib resulted in her small shop being burnt down. May Anthony says remnants of a squib among the charred remains of her shop at the Mackenzie Bus park proves the cause of the fire. She recalled being at church when she received information that ...

The hydropower station licence granted to the United States-based Sithe Global, expired Tuesday with little chance of it being renewed even as government searches for a new investor. Cabinet Secretary, Dr. Roger Luncheon said that while government remained committed to the AFH project the licence was not renewed because no negotiations were held with the company. “The licence will expire. ...

Fishing vessels will first have to be fitted with Vessel Monitoring Systems (VMS) before they are licensed in 2014 as part of efforts to monitor harvests in keeping with international rules, the Agriculture Ministry said on Tuesday. “We are therefore calling on all fishing vessels to be outfitted with VMS units before they are licensed for next year. Such a ...

Guyana on Tuesday announced that it would be donating US$275,000 to three Eastern Caribbean islands that recently suffered deaths and damage due to bad weather. The Foreign Ministry said the cash would be used to “assist in their recovery efforts in the wake of the recent heavy rains which resulted in the loss of lives and critical damage to property ...

Amid increasing incidents of domestic violence that has left several wounded or dead, President Donald Ramotar on New Years 2014 announced that social and religious organisations would be enlisted to fight the “scourge”. “In 2014, I propose to conscript social and religious organizations in the fight against domestic violence.   I believe that these organizations should play a leading role ...

Transport Minister, Robeson Benn on Monday said refusal to grant permission for the construction of an airstrip in the New River Triangle was in keeping with a policy position about mineral activity in the area. The highly controversial grant of Permission for Geological and Geophysical Survey (PGGS) to a Guyanese company, Muri Brasil Ventures Inc, has put Natural Resources Minister, ...

Guyana’s treasury has so far lost GUY$40 million due to delays in widening the East Coast Demerara public road because of the erection of what government says are an illegal fence and other structures by BM Soat Auto dealership, government said Monday. Public Works Minister, Robeson Benn insisted that BM Soat has encroached on public property at Chateau Margot that ...