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Although the Mae’s School is privately operated, the Ministry of Education on Friday morning dispatched its mobile counseling unit with trained counselors to the Mae’s Private School to assist those students who may be affected after a teenage girl of the school took her own life. Education Minister, Nicolette Henry and Chief Education Officer, Marcel […]
The Local Government Commission has fired Royston King as the Town Clerk for the City of Georgetown. He was fired with immediate effect on Wednesday after he refused to respond to the findings of recently concluded Commission of Inquiry into the Georgetown City Council and his work as Town Clerk. The final report of that […]
A Court today freed Super Biker, Stephen Vieira and Car Racer, Nazim Gafoor of cocaine trafficking and possession charges. However, the other two accused in the 187-pound cocaine in timber case, businessman Tazim Gafoor and his accomplice GRA Enforcement Officer, Sherwayne DeAbreau were convicted and sentenced to five years in jail. In addition to the […]
A 31-year-old Assistant Superintendent of Police was shackled at the hands and feet today as he was taken to Court to face a rape charge. The Police officer, Seecharran Singh, was today charged with the rape of a 13-year-old girl. It is alleged that between the 17th and 18th June 2018, the man engaged in […]
A high school student attached to the Mae’s Private School died on her way to the hospital today while being rushed there from the school.. The teenage student, according to sources at the school, had been suspected of using ecstasy. The school reportedly made a decision to call in her parents for a meeting today. […]
The Annual Officers Conference of the Guyana Defence Force opened this morning with Commander-In-Chief, President David Granger indicating the need for stronger border control in wake of the movement of Venezuelans into Guyana seeking refuge from economic and other issues in their homeland. The President told GDF Officers that “the influx of more than three […]
At around noon today, Commissioners of the Guyana Elections Commission emerged from their meeting and explained that the Chief Elections Officer has provided them with various documents and scenarios that they will have to use to come up with a timeline for possible early elections. Commissioner Vincent Alexander said the meeting will continue this afternoon […]
Foreign Minister Carl Greenidge is in the United States and yesterday he met and held discussions with the US Deputy Secretary of State John J. Sullivan. According to the US State Department, the two leaders commended the strength of the U.S.-Guyana partnership, and Deputy Secretary Sullivan affirmed Guyana’s sovereign rights and jurisdiction within its Exclusive […]
There are widespread protests in Venezuela against the Nicolas Maduro administration and the protesters might now be emboldened by the decision of the US President to announce that the US will not recognize Mr. Maduro as president. US President Donald Trump announced this afternoon that he recognises Venezuelan opposition leader Juan Guaidó as the country’s […]
Submissions and arguments in the Ram vs Attorney General no-confidence motion case were completed today and Chief Justice Roxanne George-Wiltshire has indicated that she will hand down her decision on the 31st January. The case was brought against the Attorney General and the Speaker of the National Assembly by Attorney and Chartered Accountant, Christopher Ram, […]
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