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The New Guyana School’s Jorrel DeSantos has been awarded the top spot in this years National Grade Six Assessment Examinations. He scored a total of 533 marks out of the possible 540 marks. He was followed by Aliah Mohammed of the School of the Nations who came in the number 2 spot with 531 marks. […]
MINISTRY OF EDUCATION EXAMINATIONS DIVISION NATIONAL GRADE SIX ASSESSMENT 2014 The results of the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) written on16 April and 17 April 2014 will be released to schools shortly. Fifteen thousand two hundred and twenty seven (15,227) candidates were entered for this assessment. These candidates also wrote the National Grade Two Assessment […]
Guyana has joined the rest of the world in calling for the elimination of Child Labour, which is work that deprives children of their child hood. World Day Against Child Labour is being observed in 2014 under the theme ‘Extend Social Protection: Combat Child Labour’! While the statistics show a decline, there are still 168 […]
Three persons including a teenager and a young child were killed on Wednesday night at Phillipia on the Corentyne Coast when they were all hit down by a speeding driver. According to a resident of the area, Sheralyn Pestano, the speeding car first hit down a young man and attempted to drive away from the […]
A Guyanese man who visited St. Lucia and returned to Guyana last week has died after he was suspected to have been infected by the Chikungunya virus during his St. Lucian visit. Health Officials in St. Lucia are worried about the growing number of cases of the virus in the small island. The 38-year-old man, […]
A 19-year old Soesdyke resident is nursing a gunshot wound to his chest after he was caught officers of a private security firm stealing GT&T fibre optic cables at Coverden on the East Bank of Demerara. According to the Guyana Police Force, the incident occurred at about 04:15 am on Wednesday. The Police statement said […]
British High Commissioner to Guyana, Andrew Ayre used the celebration of the Queen’s 88th Birthday in Georgetown to issue another call for Guyana to host Local Government Elections. The International Community has been pressing Guyana to host local government elections. The last time Guyanese went to the polls for Local Government elections was in 1994. […]
The United States Ambassador to Guyana, Brent Hardt has described as “unfortunate” the decision by the Caribbean Financial Action Task Force to issue a warning to its members about doing business in Guyana in absence of the updated Anti- Money laundering legislation. The U.S envoy has been calling for Guyana to put the legislation in […]
A Friendship, East Bank Demerara woman was found dead early on Tuesday morning at the bottom of her stairs with her head in a bucket. She has been identified as 25-year-old Shelly Persaud. Investigators have taken the woman’s husband into custody as they continued their probe of the death. The woman’s husband claims that he […]
Police Cadet Officer, Franz Paul was on Monday remanded to prison after he was slapped with four charges in connection with the shooting in the mouth of 15-year-old Alex Griffith. Paul was charged with perverting the course of justice, unlawfully assaulting the teenager, inflicting grievous bodily harm and intent to maim, disfigure and disable the […]
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