By News Source Guyana on September 13, 2016
Caribbean & International, News, Politics
by Kurt Campbell at UN Headquarters (New York) United Nations (UN) member countries will gather at the UN Headquarters in New York, from September 13th for the 71st Regular Session of the General Assembly. They are expected to recommit to the 2030 agenda of implementing 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Although progress has been recorded, […]
By News Source Guyana on September 12, 2016
Crime, News
A popular Lusignan welder/fabricator is in Police custody this evening after he was nabbed by the Narcotics Branch of the Police Force with a quantity of cocaine hidden in fabricating equipment. The Police also found a firearm with matching rounds in the man’s possession. The bust took place early on Monday morning in the Lusignan […]
By News Source Guyana on September 11, 2016
Crime, News
A West Ruimveldt man who worked with the 007 Taxi Service as a driver, was gunned down on Sunday night in King Edward Street, Albouystown as he made a food delivery. The dead man has been identified as 42-year-old Oswald Rambarran. He had gone to the area close to the cemetery just after 8:30pm, when […]
By News Source Guyana on September 11, 2016
Crime, News
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, […]
By News Source Guyana on September 11, 2016
News, Politics
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 […]
By News Source Guyana on September 11, 2016
News
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. […]
By News Source Guyana on September 9, 2016
Crime, News
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 […]
By News Source Guyana on September 9, 2016
News, Politics
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 […]
By News Source Guyana on September 9, 2016
News, Politics
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 […]
By News Source Guyana on September 8, 2016
News, Politics
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 […]