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Police investigators are getting ready to file charges against a 19-year-old man who was drunk and driving when he slammed into another car, resulting in the death of a 4-year-old girl who was in that car with her family. The incident took place on Saturday night on Sheriff Street in Georgetown. According to a Police report, […]
The Central Housing and Planning Authority (CP&HA) is conducting a survey within communities where squatting is prevalent, to find available lands. Minister within the Ministry of Communities, Valerie Adams-Patterson told the Government Information Agency that the Department of Community Development has been surveying available lands in communities where squatting is prevalent. The Minister said that […]
Minister of Education, Dr. Rupert Roopnaraine has announced that a Coordinator of Private Schools has been appointed to regulate the involvement of these essential stakeholders in the education system. This appointment also gives the private school operators an opportunity to make a structured contribution to the management and enhancement of the education system, Minister Roopnaraine said. […]
Police investigators in The Bahamas are investigating the brutal murder of a Guyanese woman who works in the island as a High School teacher. 35-year-old Marisha Bowen was found stabbed to death early this morning in her Summer Street Nassau Village apartment unit this morning. According to Bahamas Press, Police arrived on the scene shortly after […]
As the Foreign Affairs Ministry continues to probe press reports that newly appointed Ambassador to Kuwait, Dr. Shamir Ally has a criminal past, it has been revealed in legal documents that Dr Ally was never criminally charged or convicted of a crime. The documents which are available online point to a civil suit taken against […]
The move by state broadcaster, NCN, to suspend its sports editor over a statement about a colleague on Facebook, has not found favour with President David Granger, who has described the move by NCN’s Management as “inhumane”. During a recording of the President’s weekly “Public Interest” television programme, Mr. Granger slammed NCN for not showing […]
The same Cabinet that weeks ago approved the rental of a Sussex street building as a new storage bond for pharmaceuticals has now deemed the arrangement “undesirable”, following an avalanche of criticism from a wide cross section of the society over the controversial deal. In a Thursday evening statement, the Government announced moves to get […]
Cabinet has granted its approval for the award of a $74.4 million contract to Builders Hardware and Quality Timber Project Company for the expansion and capacity building at the Leonora Diagnostic Centre (LDC) so that the centre can be upgraded to a maternity care facility. This upgrade will now see women being able to access […]
Power delivery and better management of the Guyana Power and Light Company are to be given a boost under a new improvement programme being funded by the Inter American Development Bank and the European Union. Minister within the Ministry of Public Infrastructure, Annette Ferguson, on Thursday announced that the government has given its no objection […]
Quick thinking and action by a television operator and staff members averted what could have been a major disaster at the privately owned HJ Radio and TV in Georgetown. The station’s broadcast tower was hit by a lightning strike which ignited a fire in the main control room for the television studio. The operator quickly […]
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