By News Source Guyana on September 8, 2013
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(Trinidad Newsday) FINANCE Minister Larry Howai is on Monday poised to announce in the Budget presentation that 10,000 acres of land in Guyana will be made available for use by local farmers under the terms of a new facility to be administered by the Ministry of Food Production. The facility is the result of the […]
By News Source Guyana on September 7, 2013
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A post-mortem examination conducted on the body of biker Kirk Davis revealed that the young man died from shock and hemorrhage as a result of gunshot injuries. The report also found that the 30 year old man was shot 16 times to the upper body and all of those shots were fired at close range. […]
By News Source Guyana on September 7, 2013
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GEORGETOWN – The Childcare and Protection Agency (CPA) of the Ministry of Labour Human Services and Social Security and the Peace Corps organized the first annual Camp STOMP (Supportive Teamwork Opening Minds Positively) from August 4 to 24, 2013. STOMP was a pilot summer camp that provided 30 adolescent boys between 14 to 17 years old living […]
By News Source Guyana on September 7, 2013
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(GINA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Incorporated, Bharrat Dindyal said that there is a technological solution to the problem of loss reduction, but it requires an investment of tens of millions of US dollars. He was at the time speaking at a public forum, hosted by the power company […]
By News Source Guyana on September 6, 2013
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Three days after the brutal gunning down of well-known biker Kirk Davis, the Guyana Police Force is still to issue a wanted bulletin for the main suspect in the young man’s murder although senior police officers have been quoted as saying they have identified a prime suspect. Crime Chief Seelall Persaud is currently out of […]
By News Source Guyana on September 5, 2013
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(CARICOM) The Caribbean Community has announced that Guyanese Dereck Anthony Springer has been appointed Director of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP). Mr. Springer, a public health practitioner, behavioural scientist and strategic manager brings to the position 20 years of experience in the health sector, focusing on HIV and mental health. His extensive […]
By News Source Guyana on September 5, 2013
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In wake of criticisms about its fare structure in the Guyana market, regional carrier Caribbean Airlines has been trying to explain why those high fares were introduced. Head of Corporate Communications at Caribbean Airlines, Clint Williams explained that while high fares exist, the majority of fares would not be at the high prices that have […]
By News Source Guyana on September 5, 2013
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The voice of a woman was heard shouting “Randy don’t do it” just before 30-year-old biker Kirk Davis was shot dead in front of his Eccles home, according to persons who were in the area. It is believed that the woman was calling out to her husband as he whipped out a gun and started […]
By News Source Guyana on September 5, 2013
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Employment opportunities for 6,000 people will be created over five years when the world’s largest contact centre campus at Providence on the East Bank of Demerara is opened to provide educational, humanitarian and counselling services. Qualfon, a global provider of call centre back-office and business process outsourcing services is investing in the state of the […]
By News Source Guyana on September 4, 2013
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A Police Officer attached to the Mackenzie Police Station is a patient of the Mackenzie Hospital nursing stab wounds. Reports out of Linden indicate that the young traffic officer was attacked and stabbed to forehead and mouth by a taxi driver after he stopped the driver for committing a traffic offence. According to reports, the […]