Digicel donates shoes to barefooted Hinterland students

Local cell service provider Digicel has  responded to an appeal to provide shoes for more than one hundred hinterland students so they could get to school safely. According to the company, the appeal was made by the Headmistress of the Hobodeia Primary School, Ms. Vieda Wills. When Ms. Wills took office in May 2013 she became […]

PPP lambastes “insensitive” Jagdeo critics

Guyana’s governing party, the People’s Progressive Party Civic is not happy that many Guyanese have been raising questions about the decision to have former President Bharrat Jagdeo flown out of the country on a private jet to be treated in Florida for dengue. An emergency medical evacuation was activated two Saturdays ago for the former […]

Man accused of $300 Million GRA fraud busted in Buffalo

Police in Buffalo, New York this week nabbed former Guyana Revenue Authority cashier Gregory Barnes who has been on the run from Guyanese law enforcement for the past four years after allegedly pulling off a $300 Million fraud at the revenue agency. According to reports out of Buffalo, the wanted man Gregory Alistair Ewan Barnes […]

Guyana signs new work agreement with UNICEF

Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carolyn Rodrigues-Birkett and Representative of the United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF), Marianna Flach signed an agreement for the implementation of the 2014 annual work-plan, which will allow for specific interventions and support programmes to be executed by the Ministries of Education, Health, Human Services and Social Security and Culture Youth and […]

PM wants more traffic ranks with radar guns and breathalyzers

Even as the Government tries to shoot down allegations that one of its own Ministers was drunk driving when he slammed into another car, Guyana’s Prime Minister Samuel Hinds wants more Traffic Officers to be equipped with Breathalyzers and radar guns. Just recently, the Government admitted that in the entire Guyana, the Police Force only […]

La Grange woman found murdered in Cuyuni shop

Police investigators have traveled to the Rock Creek, Cuyuni area to conduct investigations into the brutal murder of 35 year old Bibi Shaneeza Bhola who was found in her shop in the mining district with a stab wound to her stomach. The woman who hailed from the West Demerara village of La Grange worked in […]

AG rejects accusations that Finance Minister was drunk driving

While the President, the Prime Minister and the Home Affairs Minister have all been dodging questions surrounding allegations of drunk driving by the Minister of Finance, the Attorney General of Guyana Anil Nandlall now claims that the allegations of the Minister being under the influence of alcohol and not submitting himself to a breathalyzer test […]

Vehicle in fatal hit and run found in GWI compound

Police investigators are now looking for a driver attached to the Guyana Water Incorporated who they believe hit and killed a food vendor on Wednesday night on Mandela Avenue and drove off from the scene. Forty six-year-old food vendor, Claude McPherson aka Chippy was hit down and dragged for over 400 yards by a speeding […]