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(CARICOM) The Thirty-Fourth Meeting of the Community Council of Ministers of the Caribbean Community will deliberate on the third draft of the CARICOM Five-Year Strategic Plan when the Council meets on Thursday 22 May at the CARICOM Secretariat in Georgetown Guyana. The two-day meeting which concludes on Friday 23 May, will be held under the Chairmanship of Senator, the Honourable Camillo Gonsalves, […]
The two prisoners who were recaptured after escaping from the lock ups at the Georgetown Magistrates Court have been sentenced to two years in jail each. A city Magistrate handed down the sentence on Wednesday after the two pleaded guilty to escaping from lawful custody. The two prisoners, Randolph Marks and Steve Bacchus were both […]
Five Guyanese chefs and their assistants will take their local cuisine to Jamaica this weekend for the annual Jamaican Epicurean Escape. The festival will feature some of the world’s best chefs and their tasty secrets over two days in the land known for jerk chicken. This year, Fly Jamaica has taken the lead to sponsor […]
Several employees of the Qualfon company at Plaisance on the East Coast of Demerara were rushed to the Georgetown Hospital on Tuesday evening after complaining of shortness of breath and asthma like symptoms. According to some of the workers, there was a total power shut down in the new enclosed building that the company operates […]
A 48-year-old New Amsterdam man is under police guard at the New Amsterdam hospital after he brutally stabbed his 18-year-old former lover to death less than a week after she ended the relationship. The two were in a relationship for close to two years and welcomed a baby together four months ago. The man was […]
The Guyana Police Force on Tuesday announced that it had recaptured prison escapee Randolph Marks. He was nabbed early on Tuesday morning just after 1:15am hiding under a bed in a house at Freeman Street in East La Penitence. He was among four prisoners who crawled their way out of the Magistrates’ Court lock ups […]
One of the three men who escaped from the Magistrates’s Court lock ups on Monday afternoon has been shot dead by the Police. the dead man has been identified as Vickram Persaud. He was on trial for the murder of police constable Michael Cumberbatch who was shot dead on September 23, 2013 in Sophia. Persaud’s […]
(US Embassy) – USAID held a graduation ceremony at the Critchlow Labour College to honor 71 youth who completed work and life skills training through the USAID Skills and Knowledge for Youth Employment (SKYE) Project. The SKYE program, funded through the Caribbean Basin Security Initiative (CBSI), equips young Guyanese with market-driven skills and improves their ability […]
Several Police officers were on Monday morning searching several parts of the city in the Charlestown area after two prisoners escaped from the lock up facility at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court. The escaped prisoners who are still on the run have been identified as Seon Cummings and Vicram Persaud. Cummings is facing several robbery charges […]
The Guyana Defence Force has launched an investigation into an incident that took place at the Colonel John Clarke Military School at Tacama that has left two soldiers nursing gunshot wounds. According to a release from the GDF, Lt. Othneil Hope and RCT. Vernon Harding were both injured when two rounds were “accidentally discharged” from […]
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