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Former Minister of Finance under the last PPP Civic Government, Dr. Ashni Singh and former Privatisation Unit Head, Winston Brassington are facing a new charge of misconduct in public office. Singh was a no-show in Court this morning as the charge was read. Brassington and his Attorneys were present. Attorney-at-law, Anil Nandlall, who is representing […]
-by Ravin Singh- The overall academic performance of pupils on the Coast and those in the Hinterland areas are not comparable and to bridge this gap, the Education Ministry has developed a three-prong approach which includes reliance on Information and Communication Technology (ICT). This was according to Chief Education Officer (CEO) Marcel Hudson yesterday, during […]
The United States Government through its State Department is calling on the Guyana Government to fund specialized victim services outside the capital as the fight continues against trafficking in persons. The State Department also wants those services to be unveiled for child victims and adult male victims of human traffcking. Those are just some of […]
Three persons were today slapped with trafficking in persons charges when they appeared before the Chief Magistrate. They have all been remanded to prison. The three, Amanda Gould and husband and wife, June and Laurence Willams, were not required to enter a plea to the indictable charges. The Court was told that over a period […]
The Ministry of Education released the results of the National Grade Six Assessment Examinations this afternoon, showing improvements in the English performances but a decline in Mathematics, with Science and Social Studies remaining steady. This year’s top pupil is Nalia Rahaman from the Westfield Prep School in Georgetown. She gained a perfect score of 529 […]
Former Guyana Member of Parliament, who once served as Mayor of Linden, Abdul Kadir, has died. He was in his mid 60’s. Kadir passed away in a US prison this morning, where he was serving a life sentence on a conviction of conspiring to commit a terrorist attack at New York’s JFK Airport almost a […]
More drama unfolded at the Guyana Public Service Credit Union on Hadfield Street this morning as the Police had to be called in when management refused to open the gate and doors to be served with a Court order. That order has quashed the injunction that was earlier obtained by the credit union’s management against […]
Two weeks after being slapped with fraud charges, a real estate agent was back in Court today facing five additional fraud charges. He is being accused of selling land that he did not own or was authorized to sell. 22-year-old, Basdeo Persaud stood before Magistrate, Fabayo Azore and denied all five charges when they were […]
Residents of Guyana’s Capital City, Georgetown are being promised a more reliable power supply accompanied by a reduction in power outages when a new energy management system comes on stream by 2020. The Government of Guyana and the Government of Japan signed the Grant Aid documents on Wednesday for the project: “Introduction of Renewable Energy and the […]
In the Courtroom of the Chief Magistrate today, a domestic worker from Bartica was charged and remanded to jail for allegedly being in possession of cocaine and marijuana. 58-year-old Roxanne Carrington was arrested over the weekend after Police ranks found over three pounds of cocaine and five pounds of marijuana in her bedroom during a […]
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