By News Source Guyana on July 11, 2016
News
Police investigators in the U.S State of Maryland, have arrested and charged the 61-year-old neighbour of a Guyanese woman who was found murdered in her Maryland home last Friday. The body of 62-year-old Guyanese, Lenise Fredericks, was discovered in her house with trauma to her head after she had not been heard from by relatives and […]
By News Source Guyana on July 10, 2016
News
It has been just over two years since popular Guyanese designer and events co-ordinator, Trevor Rose, was gunned down while accompanying an ex-girlfriend home. The ex-girlfriend and the driver of the car that they were in, both survived. Rose was riddled with bullets by gunmen who pulled up along side him on the East Bank […]
By News Source Guyana on July 10, 2016
Caribbean & International
(BBC) Thousands of people have crossed to Colombia after Venezuela opened their common border to allow its people to buy food and medicine, officials say. The frontier, closed by Venezuela last August as part of a crime crackdown, was to open for 12 hours. Venezuela is going through a deep economic crisis and many […]
By News Source Guyana on July 10, 2016
Sports
A brilliant display from the Guyana Amazon Warriors bowlers was backed up by their batsmen as they made it four wins in four matches against the St Kitts & Nevis Patriots in the Hero Caribbean Premier League (CPL). They won the match with 22 balls to spare thanks to runs from Martin Guptill and Chris […]
By News Source Guyana on July 10, 2016
News
Bank of America has given the Bank of Guyana notice that it intends to sever ties with indigenous banks here, but BoG Governor, Dr. Gobin Ganga says the pullout may not have any implications for this country. The Central Bank’s Governor confirmed that Bank of America has sent a notice indicating that it would be […]
By News Source Guyana on July 10, 2016
News, Politics
(MOTP) A multi-sectoral approach to the myriad problems facing teenagers in Guyana, according to First Lady, Mrs. Sandra Granger, is what is needed to ensure that they are properly equipped to assume leadership of our country in the future. The First Lady made these comments during a Stakeholders Symposium held in observance of World Population […]
By News Source Guyana on July 10, 2016
Sports
Minister of State, Mr. Joseph Harmon, on Saturday, received a donation of fifty bats and balls from the Caribbean Premier League’s Chief Operations Officer, Mr. Pete Russell, for distribution to communities across the country. He also received a bat, bearing the autographs of the Guyana Amazon Warriors team and a shirt, labeled ‘Chief’. The Minister […]
By News Source Guyana on July 9, 2016
News
The Guyana Manufacturing and Services Association (GMSA) is pushing back against the Guyana Government’s move to implement import taxes and review of the list of raw materials which are not eligible for tax exemptions under the revised Treaty of Chaguaramas. The Manufacturing Association is proposing to to work closely with the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) […]
By News Source Guyana on July 9, 2016
News
Police investigators are probing the death of the 19-year-old University of Guyana student whose body was found Friday night at Land of Canaan, East Bank Demerara, two days after he went missing. The body washed up on the foreshore at Land of Canaan. The young man, Harris Anthony Persaud, was last seen on Wednesday afternoon leaving the East […]
By News Source Guyana on July 8, 2016
News
The two boys who perished in an early morning fire at the Hadfield Street Children Drop in Centre, at were taken away from their mother two days prior to the tragic incident. The Child Care and Protection Agency (CC&PA) and the Ministry of Social Protection have assumed collective responsibility for the loss of lives and […]