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The Ministry of Social Protection is calling on all citizens to act responsibly regarding inappropriate video content involving school aged children that has been circulating on social media platforms. The photographs and videos of the school aged children have been posted to some Facebook pages and were being circulated on other social media apps over […]
First Lady, Sandra Granger, today, urged officers of the Guyana Defence Force’s Women’s Army Corps to continue to be competent in the execution of their duties. Mrs. Granger was at the time speaking at the 50th Anniversary Thanksgiving Service for the Women’s Army Corps. She said the formation of the Women’s Army Corps 50 years ago […]
Georgetown Magistrate Leron Daly today ruled that the Prosecution has been able to make out its case and she therefore committed five teenagers to stand trial for the May 2016 murder of retired University Professor, Dr. Perry Mars. Confusion took over the courthouse today, just after the teens were committed, when one of them was […]
A 33-year-old, Enmore, East Coast Demerara man, who was arrested last August after he attempted to ship over 200 pounds of cocaine in frozen fish, will be spending the next five years in jail. The man, Kapil Thakurian, was also fined $237 Million. The sentence was handed down today at the Georgetown’s Magistrates’ Court by […]
A new Board has been installed at the Georgetown Hospital with Health Law Consultant and Attorney, 34-year-old Kesaundra Alves, being appointed as the Head of the Board. The last board which was headed by Dr. Carl ‘Max’ Hanoman was dissolved in November 2016, by the Health Minister at the time, Dr. George Norton. The new Chairperson, Kessaundra Alves, […]
The Guyana Agricultural and General Workers Union (GAWU) wants the Guyana Sugar Company to pay up those severance packages to workers who were displaced by the decision to close the Wales estate. The union said it was puzzled by recent reports which stated that some 650 workers from the recently closed Wales Estate would be […]
One hundred and fifty nursing students from the nursing schools across Guyana are to re-sit the multiple choice aspect of the 2016 State Final Examination for Professional Nurses. The Ministry of Public Health after holding discussions with the General Nursing Council and student representatives arrived at an agreement to address the pending issue and move […]
Police investigators are seeking the public’s help for any information that could lead to the arrest of the suspects in the stabbing death of a destitute man, which took place Sunday morning in the Kitty area. According to a Police statement, 42-year-old Sunil Singh aka “Grey”, was beaten and stabbed to death by three men […]
Mini-bus driver, Robert Grant, will have to spend the next 56 months in jail after being found guilty for causing the death of an East Bank Demerara man, by dangerous driving. The verdict and sentence were handed down on Friday by Magistrate Judy Latchman at the Georgetown Magistrates Court and they came less than a […]
Two of the leading organisations that represent the interests of the majority of the business community in Guyana, have issued a call for the Government of Guyana to jump into the fray over the implementation of the parking meter system by the Georgetown City Council. The Georgetown City Council has been coming in for criticism […]
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