By News Source Guyana on November 19, 2016
Sports
The Guyana Rugby Football Union (GRFU) is extremely elated that the National men’s team, the “Green Machine”, managed to win their eight Caribbean Championship last weekend in Trinidad and Tobago at the Rugby Americas North (RAN) Championship. The team powered its way to the finals but fell to Canada by a 52-5 margin. However, by virtue of the team […]
By News Source Guyana on November 19, 2016
News, Politics
As Secretary General (SG) of the United Nations (UN), Mr. Ban ki-Moon prepares to leave office in December, President David Granger is holding him to a commitment made to assess the next step in resolving Guyana’s border controversy with neighbouring Venezuela. “We have to hold Mr. Ban ki-Moon to his own word. The word he […]
By News Source Guyana on November 18, 2016
News
Prime Minister, Moses Nagamootoo believes that the public should not take the Skeldon situation as an isolated part of the travails of the sugar industry, they should look at it as a whole. The Prime Minister was at the time speaking at the AFC’s bi-weekly press conference and he went on to say that it […]
By News Source Guyana on November 18, 2016
News, Politics
Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo today announced that the Alliance For Change (AFC) will be hosting its National Congress in January 2017. It will mark the first national congress for the party since it took the reigns of political power in Guyana as part of the coalition government. The Prime Minister is the party’s acting Chairman. […]
By News Source Guyana on November 17, 2016
News
The Guyana Fire Service (GFS) in collaboration with the Ministries of Public Security and Public Health today, officially launched its National Emergency Medical Services (EMS) at Project Dawn, Liliendaal. The services however will be accessible by members of the public from Monday November 21, 2016 via the existing 912 Emergency calling system. Currently there is […]
By News Source Guyana on November 17, 2016
News
In a strongly worded statement this afternoon, the Guyana Gold and Diamond Miners Association (GGDMA) and the Guyana Women Miner’s Organisation (GWMO) issued a call on the government to “immediately remove from consideration the idiotic proposal to force local gold miners to accept 3% less than the world market price for gold produced.” The two […]
By News Source Guyana on November 17, 2016
Crime, News
The Guyana Police Force is praising the work of one of its sniffer dogs after the dog located a gun that was stashed in one of the front door panels of a car. According to the Police, based on intensive intelligence gathering, ranks conducted a search on a taxi driver of Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo […]
By News Source Guyana on November 17, 2016
News, Politics
Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman has fired back at Opposition Leader Bharat Jagdeo’s claims of the Guysuco board being incompetent and that British company Booker Tate being responsible for the rundown of the multi million dollar Skeldon Factory. Trotman said Jagdeo’s criticism now is a classic case of “a bad worker blaming his tools.” “It is […]
By News Source Guyana on November 17, 2016
Crime, News
The woman who was stabbed to death by her lover after she stabbed him in a bizarre double murder at Kamarang over the weekend is the same East Coast woman who escaped death just over a year ago when an ex-lover opened fire on her house, killing her 1-year-old grand daughter instead. 45-year-old Shelly Norton […]
By News Source Guyana on November 17, 2016
News
The Ministry of Natural Resources in partnership with British organization Chatham House, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Natural Resources Governance Institute launched a two day seminar designed to educate companies and agencies in the public and private sectors on how to properly manage the emerging oil industry in Guyana. The seminar comes on the heels […]