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The crew aboard a Guyana Defence Force aircraft faced a different type of turbulence on Saturday as a young Indigenous woman delivered her baby mid-air. Lucky for them, there was a young medical student on board to guide the delivery. It was just before 6:00pm on Saturday, that one of the GDF’s aircraft was transformed into […]
Guyana’s Minister of Public Health, Volda Lawrence, has called on the World Health Organisation (WHO) to develop stronger systems to monitor health risks globally, since this is an issue which small states continue to grapple with. The Minister was at the time delivering her address at the 70th World Health Assembly in Geneva, Switzerland. According […]
Intelligence gathering by police investigators has resulted in a major drug and illegal guns bust in the Campbellville community. On Friday night, police ranks moved in to the Duncan Street, Campbellville home of a young couple and found over 25 pounds of cocaine along with three unlicensed guns with matching rounds. A 31-year-old man and […]
(Bahamas Tribune) A GUYANESE woman was sentenced to 28 months in prison yesterday after pleading guilty to two counts of drug possession. Linda Reynolds, 23, was charged before Deputy Chief Magistrate Andrew Forbes with possession of dangerous drugs with intent to supply and importation of dangerous drugs. According to initial police reports, a Guyanese woman […]
Guyana’s Opposition Members of Parliament stayed away from the 51st Independence Anniversary flag raising ceremony, leaving their front row VIP seats empty. Last year, the Opposition had complained about improper seating arrangements and walked out of the Golden Jubilee festivities. Last evening as Guyana crossed into its 51st year as an independent nation, they simply […]
The transition of British Guiana from a colony to Independent Guyana was a colourful episode punctuated with political, social and economic challenges. The country’s ability to successfully maneuver itself pass these challenges was recognised by President David Granger in his Independence Day Message to the Nation. Mr. Granger reflected on the period of colonization which saw 350 years of […]
Acting Chancellor of the Judiciary, Madame Yonette Decina Cummings-Edwards leads the list of National Awardees for 2017. She will be conferred with the prestigious Order of Roraima – the second highest national award in Guyana. She is one of 31 women who are being awarded national awards for their sterling contributions to Guyana over the years. […]
The devastating floods which greeted region eight recently has not posed any serious health risk, Minister of Health Volda Lawrence has reported. In a statement today, the Minister explained that this conclusion was arrived at after an assessment and analysis was done by a combined team comprising Ministry of Public Health officials, representatives of the […]
The Ministry of the Presidency today announced that five female convicts have been granted the Presidential Prerogative of Mercy by President David Granger. The Presidential Pardon comes on the occasion of Guyana’s fifty-first Anniversary of Independence and follows recommendations by the Director of Prisons. The women women to be released from prison are 22-year-old Jenny […]
The Guyana Police Force on Thursday issued a wanted bulletin for 27-year-old, Ezekiel Edward called ‘Kezie’, of Diamond, East Bank Demerara. He is wanted by the police in connection with the murder of Roy Roland, whose lifeless body was found in a clump of bushes in Roxanne Burnham Gardens on May 17th, 2017. Roland’s body was […]
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