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With the current crime situation continuously haunting the Police Force and government, President David Granger wants to see the Police Force work closer with members of the public. During a Police breakfast event with senior officers on Wednesday, the President emphasized the importance of community support for the work of the Police Force and their […]
The Opposition People’s Progressive Party, wants the Auditor General’s Office to probe the Durban Park project, following revelations that an additional $500 million will be taken from the public’s purse to pay off contractors who are still owed for works done on the project. An additional $500M has been budgeted for the Ministry of Public […]
The International Children’s Heart foundation (ICHF) commonly known as the Baby Heart Foundation has completed its fourth and final exercise for 2016, providing free heart surgeries for infants born with congenital heart defects. Babies benefitting from the surgeries were mostly from hinterland locations. Dr. Rodrigo Soto, Pediatric Cardiologist told the Government Information Agency (GINA) that […]
Quick action by members of the Guyana Police Force has resulted in the arrest of two armed bandits who earlier today snatched over $2 million from an accounts clerk attached to the Tower Hotel, just as he was about to about to enter the hotel from the parking lot area. The money has also been […]
The Minister of Finance, Winston Jordan and Chief Executive Officer of the Caribbean Development Fund, Rodinald Soomer, signed a Loan Agreement this morning which will effectively see 175 farmers from communities in Regions 4 and 5 benefit from improvement to agricultural infrastructure. The loan agreement will see a total of just over US$12.4 million being […]
Just three weeks after a North East La Penitence couple tied the knot, promising until death they’ll part, the family has been plunged into mourning. The newlywed man, 26-year-old, Matthew Scott, was shot dead by a gunman last evening just outside his house, as he rushed to his sister’s aid. According to reports, the sister […]
(Washington Post) E.R. Braithwaite, a Guyanese author whose book about his experiences as a black man teaching in a largely white school in London, “To Sir, With Love,” became a bestseller and inspired a popular 1967 film starring Sidney Poitier, died Dec. 12 at a hospital in Rockville, Md. He was 104. He lived in Washington […]
A 21-year-old Guyanese man was gunned down in bed beside his girlfriend in Queens New York and investigators believe he was killed over $1,200 that his girlfriend is alleged to have stolen. The dead man has been identified as Eric Assanah. According to the New York Daily News, Queens District Attorney Richard Brown said that […]
The third edition of the Smalta Girls’s Pee-Wee football Championships will be contested by St. Angela’s and West Ruimveldt after the two side won their semi-final matches on Monday at the Ministry of Education Ground. St. Angela’s passage to the final came after a tough battle with South Ruimveldt which they won 2-1 after the […]
(SportsMax) – According to SportsMax, “our sources inform that former West Indies and Guyana batsman Travis Dowlin has been appointed to the selection panel of the West Indies Cricket Board”. The 39-year-old former right hand batsman fills a vacancy that had been created following the departure of former West Indies fast bowler Courtney Walsh. […]
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