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The 2018’s Entrepreneur Laureate of the Caribbean is the local microbiologist and the Chief Executive Officer of the Eureka Medical Laboratories, William Andrew Boyle. The Entrepreneur Laureate Award forms part of the Anthony N. Sabga Caribbean Awards for Excellence (ANSCAFE).  The Sabga awards, which is now the English-speaking Caribbean’s leading recognition programme, was initiated by Anthony Sabga, founder and chairman of the ANSA ...

GEORGETOWN – The United States Government is partnering with a community-based non-governmental organization (NGO) to continue its support to Guyanese youth. Family Awareness Consciousness & Togetherness (FACT), a Corriverton-based NGO, received a US $64,800 (GYD$13,353,000) grant from the United States Agency for International Development’s (USAID) Community, Family and Youth Resilience (CFYR) Program to carry out after-school activities in Corriverton. The ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) — A federal judge is considering whether an airline company should pay damages to a Connecticut woman injured in a plane crash in Guyana, South America, in 2011. Judge Michael Shea in Hartford presided over a non-jury trial this month in a lawsuit by Waterbury resident Indrawatie Shiwbodh against Caribbean Airlines. The judge is expected to rule ...

Boxing Night 2017 was marred by two accidents in the county of Demerara, resulting in the death of  the son of a popular city repairman and an East Coast Demerara resident. Dead is Shaquil Brown, the son of well-known repairman, Curtis “Cocoa Tea” Brown, of Norton Street, Lodge. Brown was reportedly riding a motorcycle with a plate marked “On Test” ...

Guyana Police Force investigators were up to Tuesday-Boxing Day- searching for two men  allegedly implicated in a shooting at a wedding house last weekend at Hampshire Village, Corentyne. The suspects- ‘Bara’and ‘Rambo’-fled the scene in a vehicle, minutes after three persons were shot, a police spokesman said. Police were told that last Saturday one of the suspects allegedly drew a handgun during ...

A suspect was arrested Tuesday and has since confessed to the stabbing death of a man early Christmas night, police said. “The suspect in relation to the murder of Celwyn Allen was apprehended and has since admitted to the commission of the crime,” the Guyana Police Force said. Known as Kevin, the man allegedly stabbed Allen to death and knifed ...

One person is now dead and another injured following a Sunday afternoon accident on the Mahaica Public Road. Dead is Junior Anthony Halley of Zeskenderen Mahaicony and injured is Stanwyck Halley also of Mahaicony. According to reports, the two men were on the way to the Cheddi Jagan International Airport to pick up another colleague when the incident occurred. The ...

A taxi driver was arrested late Christmas Eve afternoon after anti-narcotics police cut open a gas cylinder and found more than 66 kilogrammes of cocaine inside, the Guyana Police Force said. Investigators from the Narcotics  Branch said they initially came up empty-handed at the 33-year old man’s home at Budhoo Housing Scheme, Parika. However, when they searched his car they ...

Two separate accidents on Sunday- Christmas Eve- claimed the lives of two persons and left two others injured, the Guyana Police Force said. Investigators said 38-year old Vincent Scipio of 14 Peter’s Hall, East Bank Demerara lost his life after a speeding minibus struck him down on the Bagotstown Public Road, East Bank Demerara at about 1 AM. “The minibus ...

President David Granger on Sunday signaled that central government would intervene to address concerns by vendors who have been displaced on the fringes of Stabroek Market, more than one year after they had been removed ahead of Guyana’s 50th Independence Anniversary. After several vendors outside the old Guyana National Cooperative Bank (GNCB) and the Guyana Fire Service told him that ...