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The Board of Industrial Training (BIT) is being lauded for its critical role of guiding hundreds of young people in the direction of developing occupational skills and entrepreneurship. The programme which is intended to empower school leavers and single parents is continuing to impact Guyanese positively by providing technical and vocational training in several areas. […]
Police in Port Mourant, Berbice have arrested the boyfriend of a 26-year-old woman who was beaten to death on Friday night during an argument between the two. The woman who has been identified as Jasmattie Dowlatram was rushed to the Port Mourant Hospital after her boyfriend attacked and beat her with a piece of wood during […]
A porter attached to the Palms Institute for the elderly was talked out of jumping to his death on Friday as he protested from the roof of the three storey Brickdam building and threatened to jump to his death. The man has been identified as Dillon King. Co-workers believe that he may have been under […]
Guyana on Thursday joined with the rest of the world in celebrating the life of former South African President Nelson Mandela. The Government of South Africa announced Mandela’s death on Thursday evening. He had been ailing for years. Guyana’s President Donald Ramotar in a message in memory of Mandela, said “this loss is not just […]
(Barbados) The Healthy Caribbean Coalition (HCC) has been awarded a grant by the Australian High Commission Direct Aid Program to fund a multi-country cervical cancer prevention initiative aimed at building the capacity of key Caribbean civil society actors to respond more effectively to the community-based needs for cervical cancer prevention, treatment and control. The project […]
The Chairman of the Laparkan Group on Thursday announced that the company has sold its main Fogarty’s building on Water Street as part of a refinancing deal which will see the company leasing the same building from the new owners. Chairman Glen Khan said Fogarty’s is not leaving but is looking at new ways to […]
The Opposition political coalition, A Partnership for National Unity (APNU) has indicated to the Clerk of the National Assembly that it intends to move a motion at the next sitting of the National Assembly which seeks to lower the fees being charged to cross the Berbice River Bridge. According to the APNU, “since it’s commissioning […]
Police detectives are probing the death of a man whose body was found on the foreshore of the Georgetown seawalls in the area behind the Criminal Investigations Department of the Police Force. The discovery was made on Wednesday. The identity of the man has not been verified and investigators are tight lipped about the probe. […]
A Guyanese woman who traveled to the United States on Thanksgiving Day will now spend Christmas in the slammer after she was busted at New York’s JFK Airport with over six pounds of cocaine in the false bottom of her suitcase. While many persons in the United States were preparing for Thanksgiving Dinner, the woman […]
(CARICOM) The Legal Affairs Committee (LAC) of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM) has discussed the implications for the Community and Member States on the recent Caribbean Court of Justice ruling in the matter involving Shanique Myrie. The LAC, which comprises Attorneys General and Ministers of Legal Affairs of the Community, met by video-conference on Friday […]
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