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UN Resident Coordinator Yesim Oruç speaking yesterday
UN Resident Coordinator Yesim Oruç speaking yesterday

ERC, UN launch campaign against hate speech

The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) joined hands with the United Nations (UN) to launch the “Countering Hate Speech Campaign” at the National Library yesterday.

Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha is fourth from right with representatives from the Global Green Growth Institute, the Infrastructure for Resilient Island States Programme and others. (Ministry of Agriculture photo)
Minister of Agriculture, Zulfikar Mustapha is fourth from right with representatives from the Global Green Growth Institute, the Infrastructure for Resilient Island States Programme and others. (Ministry of Agriculture photo)

Gov’t looking to develop integrated D&I strategy through IRIS Project

The government through the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA) is evaluating a project it says is aimed at developing a sustainable, integrated national drainage and irrigation system in Guyana.

Terrence Wills
Terrence Wills

La Penitence construction worker charged with armed robbery

Thirty-nine-year-old construction labourer, Terrence Wills, of Lot 217 Main Road, La Penitence, Georgetown, appeared before Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magis-trate’s Court yesterday where he was charged with two counts of armed robbery.

Colwyn Nurse

Tucville youth charged with armed robbery

Nineteen-year-old Colwyn Nurse of Tucville Terrace, Georgetown, appeared before Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday where he was charged with armed robbery.

Shot Mon Repos girl still in ICU

While police investigations continue into the shooting incident at Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, on Saturday night, the six-year-old girl who was wounded in the head remains in critical condition in the intensive care unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

Jamaine Josiah

Eccles construction worker on drug charge

Jamaine Josiah, a 28-year-old construction worker of Eccles, East Bank Demerara, was arrested by a rank from the Providence Police Station on 2024/06/14 allegedly with 907.2 grams of marijuana and charged yesterday with possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking. 

Wade Morrison

Haslington man remanded over ganja

Wade Morrison, a 41-year-old construction worker of Haslington New Scheme, East Coast Demerara, was yesterday remanded to prison after appearing in court to answer to the charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.

Troy Sertimer

Anns Grove clothes vendor fined over cannabis

Troy Sertimer, a 50-year-old clothes vendor of Lot 35 Middle Walk, Anns Grove, East Coast Demerara, was charged yesterday when he appeared in court and was fined $30,000 after pleading guilty to the offence of possession of narcotics.

Avienash Singh

Fisherman stabbed to death at Charity

-suspect in custody Police are investigating the murder of Avienash Singh, a 30-year-old fisherman of Charity Squatting Area, Essequibo Coast, which occurred on Sunday at a shop in the area operated by the suspect’s reputed wife.

An advertisement for a two-bedroom apartment in Sophia

City rents high and going higher

-oil industry seen as fuelling increases By Khadidja Ba Rental prices in the city have risen so much over the past five years  that even renting a habitable one-bedroom apartment for less than $80,000 per month is a challenge.

Members of Eagle River, an Algonquin drum group from Kitigan Zibi and Barrier Lake in Quebec, Canada perform at the Indigenous Peoples Forum, staged by the Caribbean Development Bank yesterday to kick off the Bank’s 54th Annual Meeting.

At CDB forum: Indigenous leaders call for empowerment

Indigenous leaders from across the Caribbean and Canada called for greater economic empowerment, participation in decision-making, and robust protection of rights at an Indigenous Peoples Forum which opened the Carib-bean Development Bank’s (CDB) 54th Annual Meet-ing yesterday in Ottawa, Canada.

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