-Youth Minister reveals One of the two major companies producing alcohol here will soon be introducing a “very active programme” to promote “sensible drinking,” according to Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport, Dr Frank Anthony.
The details of four dead pensioners were used to perpetrate fraud amounting to almost $900,000 in the Pensions Department of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) which has seen some 18 employees being sent home, a senior source in the institution said yesterday.
Once a household name in Guyana, Olive Gopaul is rarely seen on television today, except for when she announces the winning numbers for the Guyana Lottery Company.
Money collected for the dead Fourteen employees of the pension department of the National Insurance Scheme (NIS), Brickdam office were yesterday sent home as investigations intensify into the discovery of a fraud in that department.
Shonnet Moore has come a long way from the bright-eyed schoolgirl who was crowned Miss Guyana Talented Teen at age 18.
‘Narcotics violation’ deportee now heads reintegration agency Donna Snagg committed a “narcotics violation” in the United States, the country she had called home for 20 years, and was deported back to Guyana where she had to overcome deprivation and despair.
`I, Phillip Bynoe, was guilty of trying to solve Guyana’s problems through antagonistic approaches and that was wrong’ Pardoned treason accused Phillip Bynoe yesterday admitted that he used the “wrong approach” in attempting to solve the country’s problems and has vowed to use his energy, “God-given talent and intelligence” to work with like-minded persons to ensure that Guyana emerges a better country.
one of a kind There are many adjectives that can be used to describe Donna Ramsammy-James, but accomplished just about covers it, when one considers the wealth of experience and variety she has brought to the designing industry in Guyana.
American, Canadian companies continue search for missing aircraft Hope is still alive for the rescue of the three men on board the US chartered aircraft that went missing more than two weeks ago, as the two companies for which the men work have vowed to continue searching the interior location where the plane went missing with no “end date” in sight.
Guyana’s alcohol problem persists Manickchand: Producers have to get on board The stories may have different characters but the plots remain the same: a man, a woman or a child is the victim of a senseless act of violence, the result of someone who has had too much to drink.
Men in two vehicles were involved in the murder of clothes vendor Raphael Piggott on Saturday in Cummings Lodge, another execution-style case.
Following three days of aerial searches without luck in locating the US-registered plane that went missing over the Cuyuni area, Minister of Public Works & Communication Robeson Benn last evening announced that the search for the craft will from today be done mainly on the ground.
Soldier says ‘betrayed’ by roughing-up claim One of the soldiers who said he was pepper–sprayed and whipped with metal pipes by officers attached to the Military Criminal Investi-gation Department (MCID) now feels “betrayed by the government and the Guyana Defence Force (GDF)” for labelling the “horrifying experiences” he and his colleagues endured as mere roughing up.
Seventeen-year-old Devi Ramcharitar sat behind the wheel of the car she won as the Miss Guyana Sari queen and pinched herself to ensure she was not dreaming.
Manickchand: Police should not have released suspect One week after she was said to have been battered by a man close to her to the point that a tooth was knocked out and her skull fractured, a woman in her early 30’s says that she cannot recall what happened to her.
– lawyer/politicians agitate for change countrywide “The first thing that hits you is the stench.
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Some students of the Itabali Primary School, Mazaruni had to be relocated following damage to the building said to have been aggravated by blasting at a nearby quarry.
There is a group of people in Guyana who are suffering in silence as they are scorned and discriminated against; some even face physical abuse.
Marcie De Santos is still basking in the glory of being awarded the Shabeau Magazine ‘new and upcoming designer’ award at the recent Guyana Fashion Weekend (GFW) and she hopes it is a springboard to bigger and better things.
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