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The woman who was stabbed to death by her lover after she stabbed him in a bizarre double murder at Kamarang over the weekend is the same East Coast woman who escaped death just over a year ago when an ex-lover opened fire on her house, killing her 1-year-old grand daughter instead. 45-year-old Shelly Norton […]
The Ministry of Natural Resources in partnership with British organization Chatham House, the Commonwealth Secretariat and the Natural Resources Governance Institute launched a two day seminar designed to educate companies and agencies in the public and private sectors on how to properly manage the emerging oil industry in Guyana. The seminar comes on the heels […]
President David Granger and Norway’s Minister of Climate and Environment Vidar Helgesen met on the sidelines of the UN Climate Change Convention in Marrakesh, Morocco, for what has been described as “a very constructive dialogue on the way forward for their forest and climate partnership”. The cornerstones of the Guyana-Norway partnership are to safeguard Guyana’s […]
First Lady Sandra Granger, on Thursday, charged an enthusiastic group of 31 teenage mothers never to give up on themselves, in her address at the sixth graduation ceremony of the Women Across Differences’ (WAD) Comprehensive Empowerment Programme for Adolescent Mothers, which was held at the Umana Yana in Kingston, Georgetown. “Keep the dream alive, don’t […]
Russian bauxite company, RUSAL, has angered the Labour Department after its representatives failed to show up to a meeting with Ministers of Social Protection and representatives of the Guyana Bauxite and General Workers Union on Wednesday. Minister Keith Scott told media operatives that the meeting was arranged between the company and union so as to “finally […]
Diligent work by officers attached to the Narcotics Branch of the Police Force, has resulted into another drug bust at the Cheddi Jagan Airport. A 46-year-old West Coast Demerara man is in custody after he was busted on Wednesday afternoon with several packets of cocaine in his stomach. The drug enforcement agents noticed the man […]
Wanted man, 38-year-old Sherlock Mckenzie aka “Beggar”, a resident of Albouystown, was arrested in Meadow Brook Gardens today in connection with the murder of 27-year-old Michael Payne. Payne was shot dead during a quarrel over the seizure of a bicycle in La Penitence Street, Albouystown. According to reports, Payne was staying at a relative in […]
Leader of the Opposition, Bharat Jagdeo, has blasted the coalition government over the way the government has been dealing with the sugar industry in Guyana, saying that instead of trying to stop the “massive hemorrhaging” of the sugar industry, the government appears more focused on closure and misleading the public. Jagdeo earlier today, at his […]
(motp) President David Granger has supported the call for increased climate financing, particularly for adaptation, and based on vulnerabilities of countries and not their economies measured by their Gross Domestic Product (GDP). The Head of State made these remarks, during his address at the High Level Session (HLS) of the 22nd Session of the Conference […]
The Government has announced that the 2017 National Budget will now be presented on November 28, 2016. The previous date of December 5 was recently changed. But as the government prepares to unveil its budget for 2017, the Guyana Public Service Union is expressing frustration that the government is still not returning to negotiate the […]
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