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Police investigators in neighbouring Suriname are probing the murder of a Guyanese woman and her young child. Their bodies were found on Tuesday. The 37-year-old woman has been identified Leelawattie Sookhoo. She had been living in Nieuw Amsterdam for a number of years. Her daughter was just 10-years-old. The bodies of the two were found […]
President David Granger, who is Chancellor of the Orders of Guyana, on Thursday, conferred Prime Minister of Barbados, the Right Honourable Freundel Stuart with the insignia of the Order of Roraima, Guyana’s second highest National Award. The investiture ceremony was held at State House. The Prime Minister was bestowed with this honour in recognition of […]
Opposition Leader and Former President, Bharrat Jagdeo, lead a walk-out of the National Flag Raising ceremony on Wednesday night over the seating arrangements for his party’s Members of Parliament. With another former President, Samuel Hinds, at his side, Jagdeo and a number of the PPP Members left the VIP Pavilion at Durban Park after some […]
Thousands of Guyanese flocked the Durban Park on Wednesday evening for Guyana’s 50th Independence fag raising ceremony. At the event, the National Awards were announced. Barbados’ Prime Minister Fruendel Stuart, Senior Counsel Rex Mackay and Speaker of the National Assembly, Dr. Barton Scotland topped the list of national awardees. They have all been awarded with […]
Secretary-General of the Commonwealth of Nations, Baroness Patricia Scotland, this morning, during a courtesy call on President David Granger, at the Ministry of the Presidency, said Guyana is a diamond in the Region and that the Commonwealth stands resolutely behind this country in the face of Venezuela’s claims on its territory. Baroness Scotland, who is […]
Close relatives and friends of the murdered 28-year-old woman, Babita Sarjou burst into tears outside the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday as the men responsible for her death were charged. Sarjou’s mother, sister and other relatives wept uncontrollably and embraced each other outside the Courthouse, moments after her ex – husband and another man appeared […]
A 14 year old steel pan player was killed in a freak accident last evening following rehearsals for the flag raising ceremony. The teen has been identified as Kevin Scipio. According to reports, the young man and other students had just returned to the North Ruimveldt Multilateral School when he jumped from the back of […]
The Guyana Defence Force is mourning the loss of a young soldier who died yesterday, also in a vehicular accident. 24 -year-old, GDF Lance corporal Quee brotherson passed away at the diamond hospital yesterday morning where he was being treated for multiple head and upper body injuries sustained in an early Tuesday morning accident. The […]
The Public Service Commission of Inquiry Report was distributed in the National Assembly on Tuesday, but those anticipating any form of concrete recommendations on salary increases may be disappointed. The Commission called on the government to develop a performance driven system to measure and pay for performance in the public service. The Report had little […]
Finance Minister Winston Jordan has thrown his support behind the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) as the revenue collection agency embarks on a countrywide campaign to ensure that its regulations are vigorously enforced. During a Monday morning press conference Jordan called for a dispassionate enforcement of all licensing and tax related regulations. “When it comes to […]
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