By News Source Guyana on December 12, 2018
Entertainment, News, Politics
Moving into the new year, Guyana will continue to market its tourism product to the international community. The country has seen an increased number of arrivals over the past year and that number is expected to significantly rise as more airlines sign on to serve the Guyana market. The Tourism Authority is expected to tie […]
By News Source Guyana on December 12, 2018
Crime, News
Those Police Officers who run foul of the law should also expect to face the full consequences for their action. Commissioner of Police, Leslie James made it clear this morning during a Police Force Christmas event that the Guyana Police Force has a zero tolerance policy when it comes to officers following the Force’s Standard […]
By News Source Guyana on December 12, 2018
Crime, News
Guyana is expected to work closer with the US Drug Enforcement Administration and Interpol to better monitor and track down those persons suspected of being involved in the drug trafficking trade here. Appearing on an NCN Budget in Focus TV show, Public Security Minister, Khemraj Ramjattan explained that successful efforts have been made in the […]
By News Source Guyana on December 12, 2018
News, Politics
President David Granger returned to Guyana last evening after completing the second round of medical treatment and evaluation in Cuba for his non Hodgkin lymphoma. According to a statement from his office, the Cuban Team of Specialists treating the President, have reiterated their complete satisfaction with his response to medical treatment and have explained that […]
By News Source Guyana on December 11, 2018
News, Politics
President David Granger will be returning to Guyana this evening, having completed the second round of medical treatment and evaluation at the Centro de Investigaciones Médicas Quirúrgicas (CIMEQ) in Havana . According to a statement from his office, the Cuban Team of Specialists on Monday reiterated their complete satisfaction with the President’s response to medical […]
By News Source Guyana on December 11, 2018
Crime, News
As the trial continues into the $550 million cocaine in timber bust, one of the accused, popular motorcycling star, Stephen Vieira today denied any knowledge of the cocaine, that was discovered in pieces of timber being prepared for export. In an unsworn statement read in Court today, Vieira said he had no knowledge of any drug […]
By News Source Guyana on December 11, 2018
News
The ExxonMobil company today donated over $8.3 million worth of specialized equipment to the University of Guyana’s Faculty of Natural Sciences. UG Vice Chancellor, Professor Ivelaw Griffith welcomed the gesture by the company and said the initiative of the company will fall into the University’s efforts to reinvent itself. “It matters; the investment that Exxon Mobil […]
By News Source Guyana on December 11, 2018
News
The Deputy Director of the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA), Aubrey Retmyer in a statement through the Department of Public Information has dispelled as “nonsense”, a Guyana Times article published today headlined ‘SARA Director takes home $4.7M, assistant $3.3M monthly’. According to the article, the Director and Deputy Director of the agency receive monthly salaries […]
By News Source Guyana on December 11, 2018
Crime, News
A violent row over the sale of eddo leaf callaloo has landed a vendor in hospital and another vendor facing the Court on an attempted murder charge. 38-year-old Julie Ferguson, appeared before the Chief Magistrate this morning to face a charge of attempted murder. She is accused of stabbing fellow Bourda market vendor, Nigel George, […]
By News Source Guyana on December 11, 2018
Crime, News
Police investigators from A’ Division travelled to the Linden/Soesdyke Highway community of Kuru Kururu this morning following the discovery of the lifeless bodies of a couple. The two dead persons have been identified as 34-year-old Naco Hale and her reputed husband, 48-year-old, Alwyn Butcher. The woman is believed to be originally from Linden. The two […]