By News Source Guyana on September 30, 2018
News
Local telecommunications company, GTT intends to do more in the fight against breast cancer with the second hosting of the “Pinktober’ event to raise awareness for Breast cancer. As part of its do more push, the Pinktober observations and events will be held in Linden and Lethem this year, in addition to Georgetown. October is known […]
By News Source Guyana on September 30, 2018
News, Politics
The Guyanese law firm, Hughes, Fields and Stoby, has made contact with Houston, Texas and is looking to bridge the gap for those US companies that will be looking for investment and other opportunities in Guyana as the oil and gas sector takes off. On Friday, the company hosted a reception at the Guyana Marriott […]
By News Source Guyana on September 29, 2018
News
New York Post)- It’s goodbye, Staten Island, aloha, Hawaii, for this $245.6 million Powerball winner. “I’ve always wanted to go to Hawaii,” newly minted multimillionaire Nandlall Mangal said Thursday. But other than that, he has no plans. “I’m sure my life is gonna change a lot,” he told reporters. “It’s a lot of money,” Mangal said. […]
By News Source Guyana on September 28, 2018
Crime, News
Four months after being set free for one set of drug trafficking charges, a Charlestown man was back in Court again today to face a new marijuana possession charge. 38-year-old, Colin Denny, appeared before the Chief Magistrate this morning and immediately entered a plea of not guilty to the charge of being in possession of […]
By News Source Guyana on September 28, 2018
Crime, News
A night of celebration ended tragically just after 2 o’ clock this morning when the driver of a motor car lost control and slammed into a utility police, claiming the life of a 25-year-old man. Dead is Isaiah Corlette of Castello Housing Scheme, Georgeown. He was a passenger in the car being driven by one […]
By News Source Guyana on September 28, 2018
Crime, News
At the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court this morning, a Timehri/Georgetown mini-bus driver was remanded to jail after being charged with the rape of a 21-year-old disabled woman. The accused, 44-year-old, Sherwin Reynolds is from the Plaisance area. He was represented by Attorney Stanley Moore. The Court was told that on the 19th April 2018, the man […]
By News Source Guyana on September 28, 2018
News, Politics
Guyana’s Auditor General, Deodat Sharma, today handed over his 2017 report to the Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr. Barton Scotland. During the handover, Mr. Sharma announced that as Guyana gears up and moves into the oil and gas sector, his Department will be building its capacity to take on the emerging sector and the […]
By News Source Guyana on September 28, 2018
News, Politics
Guyana once again used its address to the United Nations General Assembly today to inform the international community of Venezuela’s continuing claim to Guyana’s territory. However, this time, world leaders were informed of the matter being moved to the International Court of Justice for a final resolution. Vice President and Minister of Foreign Affairs, Carl […]
By News Source Guyana on September 27, 2018
Crime
A Surinamese National who claimed that someone broke into his apartment and forged a National Insurance Scheme (NIS) disablement voucher, was today slapped with a $60,000 fine jailed for four months, after being found guilty of committing the crime. Magistrate Annette Singh handed down her judgment today even in the absence of the accused, 45-year-old, […]
By News Source Guyana on September 27, 2018
News, Politics
The Federation of Independent Trade Unions of Guyana (FITUG) is joining the Guyana Trades Union Congress in condemning, what it considers, “the clear intention of the Ministry of Social Protection to railroad the composition of the Arbitration Tribunal that will address pay rise and working conditions of our nation’s teachers”. According to the union body, […]