Showstopper Kerrie Baylis of Jamaica was crowned Miss Jamzone 2012 on Tuesday evening at the National Cultural Centre after an incredible performance throughout the pageant, garnering the strongest support from the Guyanese audience.
Photos and interviews by Frances Abraham and Lakhram Bhagirat This week we asked the man and woman in the street their thoughts on the London Olympics 2012, the highlight for them and their views on how the Guyana team can improve their performance in the future.
Acting Town Clerk of the Mayor and City Council, Carol Sooba, says she has instructed that the six officers who have been sent on leave not be paid until they have properly handed over the positions to those appointed to perform their duties.
A 34-year-old mother of two died shortly after she was pulled yesterday from a mangled minibus she and her family had been travelling in which was involved in an accident with a car on the Lima Public Road, Essequibo Coast.
Education Minister Priya Manickchand says while she is personally against corporal punishment being administered in schools many parents do not see such disciplining as abuse and hence the need for consultations.
Although the installation of an Interim Management Committee (IMC) to manage the capital city is being considered, Local Government Minister Ganga Persaud yesterday denied that any steps have been taken to replace the Mayor and City Council (M&CC).
The main suspect in the rape and murder of 14-year-old Woodley Park schoolgirl, Basmattie ‘Manda’ Moonsammy is being sought by police but was not found during checks at his home yesterday.
Three persons, including a pregnant woman, died on the spot yesterday morning when the car they were travelling in sped out of control and landed in a ditch at Friendship, East Bank Demerara (EBD).
Trinidad-based pathologist Professor Hubert Daisley yesterday revealed that the three men killed during the protest in Linden last week, were all shot through the heart with what appeared to be bronze-capped rounds.
City Hall spokesman Royston King has been appointed to act as Town Clerk, after the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) selected replacements to act in the stead of six officers sent on leave to facilitate the police investigation into the city’s operations.
A 14-year-old boy died yesterday and another was rescued after they disappeared under the water at the Splashmin’s Resort during a fun day hosted by Trinidad Cement Limited (TCL) for its employees and their families.
Photos by Anjuli Persaud Overlooking the Soesdyke-Linden Highway is a village called Long Creek which is home to about 400 persons who maintain a simple lifestyle because of the hardships they face.
University of Guyana Berbice Campus (UGBC) staff members have registered complaints to the unions about the management of the campus, describing Director, Professor Daizal Samad as “dictatorial,” but he says the institution is a model despite its challenges.
The Ireng/Sawariwau Neigh-bourhood Democratic Coun-cil (NDC) was dissolved yesterday morning and an Interim Management Com-mittee (IMC) will be installed, just over a month after Lethem residents pro-tested against the move.
A watchman is believed to have been strangled and killed at New Hope, East Bank Demerara, during an attack at the KRS Construction Co site, where he was on duty.
More than a year after the government had set out to restore the Le Repentir Cemetery, the burial ground has returned to its deplorable state and has caught the attention of the public.
Some garbage collectors have been demanding money from residents for collection and city councillors yesterday urged swift action to clamp down on the situation.
Sharon Howell, who was stabbed and hammered in a brutal attack at her Freeman Street, East La Penitence home, has regained her ability to speak, which she credits to her children’s insistence that she speak.
The family of the elderly Hardai ‘Kuntie’ Singh, who died after being trapped in her home during a fire on Wednesday night, believes that there was foul play in the woman’s death and wants a thorough investigation.
A 27-year-old miner succumbed to burns about his body yesterday after he was turned into a human torch at a Mahdia mining camp on Friday by a workmate who dreamt that he was being sexually assaulted.
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