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As Guyana observes and celebrates Agriculture month, the government is pushing for agriculture to remain a mainstay of the Guyanese economy. President David Granger believes that the country still has the potential to guarantee local and regional food security, but there must be more investment and innovation in the sector. Speaking at Monday’s World Food […]
The Government of Guyana has started salary negotiations with the Guyana Public Service Union and the GPSU has already rejected the government’s initial offer. On Monday, Union representatives met with officials of the Public Service Department to start looking at salary increases for 2017. The government made an offer similar to last year’s offer. Last […]
A serving member of the Guyana Police Force was today remanded to prison after he was caught with a 9mm firearm and ammunition without being the holder of a firearm license. The bust was made on the route 44 bus park recently, while the policeman was off-duty. The policeman, Kwasi Moloney, made his first appearance […]
A Prison Officer found himself on the wrong side of the law and was today charged and remanded to prison over the alleged assault of a Police constable. 40-year-old, George Selman stood before Magistrate Leron Dale and entered a plea of not guilty after the charge was read to him. The Court was told that […]
President David Granger said that as Guyana strives for national unity and social cohesion, there are many important lessons to be learnt from Diwali, an important national Hindu festival, which symbolises love and togetherness. “I do believe that there are lots of lessons that all Guyanese can learn from the festival of lights, Guyana is […]
A 26-year-old man, who recently completed a prison sentence for robbery, has admitted to the robbery and murder of popular businessman, Godfrey Scipio aka Saga. He is likely to facr robbery and murder charges this week. The 59-year-old vendor and businessman was shot to the chest and relieved of his jewellery on Thursday night as […]
The Five persons who died following that smash up on the #59 village Public Road, Corentyne, have been identified. They have been identified as immigration services consultant, Sabita Manglani and her sons Emanuel and Ethan, her secretary, Reshma Seeram and the driver of the car Dhanpaul Kishandayal. The tragedy occurred as the driver of the […]
A Sunday afternoon outing for a family turned deadly this afternoon in Berbice. Five members of the family, including a young child, died in a gruesome road accident in the Corentyne area. The names of the five persons have not been released, but they were all passengers of a Honda motorcar, bearing registration number PPP-3394, […]
First Lady, Mrs. Sandra Granger, on Friday, announced that the long anticipated Trainer of Trainers Programme for her Self-Reliance and Success in Business workshop will get underway this November. The First Lady made the announcement at the closing ceremony of the 21st such workshop, which was held in Mocha-Arcadia this week. “We’re going to have… over 65 persons… and we […]
A US Court has ordered the extradition of Guyanese murder accused, Marcus Bisram, to face murder charges here in Guyana. In a ruling yesterday in New York, US Judge, Peggy Kuo ordered that Bisram be committed to the custody of US Marshalls to await extradition to Guyana. Bisram had been fighting the Guyana extradition request. […]
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