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GPL still improving services – CEO Dindyal

(GINA) Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) Incorporated, Bharrat Dindyal said that there is a technological solution to the problem of loss reduction, but it requires an investment of tens of millions of US dollars. He was at the time speaking at a public forum, hosted by the power company […]

Police still to issue wanted bulletin for suspect in Eccles murder

Three days after the brutal gunning down of well-known biker Kirk Davis, the Guyana Police Force is still to issue a wanted bulletin for the main suspect in the young man’s murder although senior police officers have been quoted as saying they have identified a prime suspect. Crime Chief Seelall Persaud is currently out of […]

Guyanese appointed Head of PANCAP

(CARICOM) The Caribbean Community has announced that Guyanese Dereck Anthony Springer has been appointed Director of the Pan Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP). Mr. Springer, a public health practitioner, behavioural scientist and strategic manager brings to the position 20 years of experience in the health sector, focusing on HIV and mental health. His extensive […]

Qualfon promises 6000 jobs with new investment

Employment opportunities for 6,000 people will be created over five years when the world’s largest contact centre campus at Providence on the East Bank of Demerara is opened to provide educational, humanitarian and counselling services. Qualfon, a global provider of call centre back-office and business process outsourcing services is investing in the state of the […]

Policeman stabbed by taxi driver in Linden

A Police Officer attached to the Mackenzie Police Station is a patient of the Mackenzie Hospital nursing stab wounds. Reports out of Linden indicate that the young traffic officer was attacked and stabbed to forehead and mouth by a taxi driver after he stopped the driver for committing a traffic offence. According to reports, the […]

Suspected thief shot outside Stabroek Market

A young man who reportedly robbed a store on Tuesday midday in Georgetown was shot late Tuesday afternoon when the store owner spotted him in the Stabroek Market area and raised an alarm. The man’s name has not been released but he is nursing a gunshot wound to the side of his abdomen. The bullet […]

22 year old stabbed to death outside night club

A 22-year-old West La Penitence man was stabbed to death early on Wednesday morning on North Road just outside a nightclub during an altercation with another man. According to a police statement at around 3:30 am on Wednesday 22-year-old Jamal Fernandes was fatally stabbed during an argument with another man at North Road, Georgetown. He […]

Section of West Bank school gutted by fire

An early morning fire on Wednesday ripped though a section of the L’Aventure Secondary School on the West Bank of Demerara leaving millions of dollars in damages and losses. The fire service was summoned to the scene just after 8 o’clock after smoke was seen coming out from the section of the school. Quick action […]