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The over 100 workers of the Linden Mayor and Town Council (LM&TC) will receive a 10 percent wage increase effective from September 1, 2017. Mayor of Linden Carwyn Holland said after many years, workers will now benefit from the 10 percent increase in their wages. The employees were unable to receive an increase earlier due to […]
At the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court today, three men were released on $60,000 bail each, after they were charged for stealing four cows. 20-year-old Quesan Frank of Tabathinga, 18-year-old Curtis Charles of Tabathinga and 28-year-old Ivor Rodriquez of Bartica, all appeared in court today and entered not guilty pleas. The Court was told that between the […]
A 1993 house lot applicant is the first owner and occupant of a duplex home constructed by the government under its latest housing project for low, moderate and middle-income families. Forty-six- year-old Deborah Wilson was handed the keys to the two-bedroom, fully completed $6.8 million home on Tuesday by Minister with Responsibility for Housing, Valerie […]
A robbery attempt turned out deadly for a suspected bandit this morning after he was struck down then shot dead by a security guard after trying to snatch a bag from a businesswoman. The incident occurred on the Railway embankment road at Lilliendaal. According to reports, the woman who was in the company of the […]
An already cash strapped Georgetown City Council is being asked by two citizens to pay compensation of several million dollars, one by a woman who fell into a poorly secured manhole at the Route #42 bus park and another by a man whose vehicle was stripped after seized by City Constabulary Officers. Mayor Patricia Chase-Green […]
President David Granger has announced that Minister of Social Cohesion, Dr. George Norton will, as of September 1, assume responsibility for Culture Youth and Sport, allowing Minister of Education, Ms. Nicolette Henry to focus on improving the quality of and access to education countrywide. In a statement, the Ministry of the Presidency said Dr. Norton […]
The Georgetown Mayor and City Council has further delayed the vote on the parking meter project. At a statutory meeting this afternoon, the Council agreed to discuss the fate of the parking meter project during a special session on September 7th. The move, which in effect delays the vote, comes as brightly coloured posters supporting paid parking […]
As the investigations get underway into Sunday’s plane crash that claimed the life of pilot, Imran Khan, the investigators are getting a closer look of the scene as they begin their probe. Based on photographs from the scene of the wreckage, the small cessna aircraft is suspected of hitting a mountain in the Region Eight […]
Two men lost their lives on Sunday night in separate road accidents investigations by the Police are ongoing. An accident along the Better Hope Public Road, just after 11pm, resulted in the death of motor cyclist, 27-year-old, Cleon Perreira, of 119 Middle Walk, Buxton, East Coast Demerara. Investigations revealed that motor car PMM 9206 driven by a 19-year-old resident of Montrose was […]
In wake of the latest domestic plane crash, that Government has mandated the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) to ramp up checks and inspections of aircraft and facilities. In a statement last evening, State Minister, Joe Harmon, said yesterday’s plane crash was the third over the past month and it leaves the government very concerned. […]
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