By News Source Guyana on June 29, 2014
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New carrier on the Guyana market, Dynamic Airways on Sunday switched its departure flight to Georgetown, Guyana from New York’s JFK Airport to New Jersey’s Atlantic City International Airport. The move came as authorities at the JFK Airport were still finalising arrangements with Dynamic Airways to allow the airline to operate from there following a […]
By News Source Guyana on June 29, 2014
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An early Sunday morning fire at Sister’s Village on the West Bank of Demerara has completely gutted three houses leaving over 10 persons homeless. According to persons who live in the area, the fire may have started just after 1 am on Sunday and quickly moved through the wooden houses, forcing occupants to run out […]
By News Source Guyana on June 29, 2014
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The Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking in Persons has designed a menu of measures in order to continue its efforts to combat human trafficking with a new action plan 2014-2015, which will be implemented in a two-year period. This action plan, while completely new to a large extent, also builds on initiatives that were […]
By News Source Guyana on June 29, 2014
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The Praise Tabernacle Church in the mining town of Linden is striving to do more to assist less fortunate children in the bauxite mining town by simply assisting them with a meal. Three years ago, the church started an ambitious programme to provide a lunch meal once per week to 40 children. It now provides […]
By News Source Guyana on June 28, 2014
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Leader of the People’s National Congress, retired Brigadier David Granger, has declared that the suspension facing PNC member and APNU Member of Parliament, Vanessa Kissoon is an internal party matter that is being addressed. In a brief conversation with News Source, the PNC Leader confirmed the suspension but would not offer any other details. Kissoon […]
By News Source Guyana on June 28, 2014
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(GINA) The Government of Guyana and more particularly, the Ministerial Task Force on Trafficking in Persons (TIP), have dismissed the recently published US State Department report on human trafficking in Guyana as inadequate, and a misrepresentation of the country’s reality with regards to this issue. Guyana was once again placed on the tier two watch […]
By News Source Guyana on June 27, 2014
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The Director of Fly Jamaica, Roxanne Reece, is adamant that her airline cannot be blamed for the troubles faced by Dynamic Airways on its inaugural flights. In a telephone interview with News Source, Ms. Reece explained that the only relationship her company was forging with Dynamic was for that airline to bring in some of […]
By News Source Guyana on June 27, 2014
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The Guyana Police Force in an effort to get citizens to play a greater role in the crime fight has added a blackberry service that would cater for blackberry users who may see something suspicious and need to inform the Police. In a statement highlighting the crime statistics for the first six months of the […]
By News Source Guyana on June 27, 2014
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The latest airline to join the Guyana/New York market hit major problems on its inaugural flight to Georgetown and the return flight to New York. Airline officials are now working around the clock to avoid a repeat. News Source understands that on the same day that Dynamic Airways launched its schedule service to Guyana from […]
By News Source Guyana on June 27, 2014
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The People’s National Congress Reform has made moves to suspend the membership of Vanessa Kissoon who is the Member of Parliament for the coalition A Partnership for National Unity representing Region 10. The PNC is the major partner in the APNU. Although Kissoon is being suspended from the party, it is unclear what impact if […]