Accused in murder of ambulance dispatcher likely to know fate tomorrow
Allan Sim is likely to know his fate tomorrow when a jury deliberates on the case against him for the alleged murder of hospital ambulance dispatcher Melissa Skeete.
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Allan Sim is likely to know his fate tomorrow when a jury deliberates on the case against him for the alleged murder of hospital ambulance dispatcher Melissa Skeete.
A Banks DIH Limited truck driver was on Monday charged with causing the death of Ravindra Arjune, who recently succumbed following injuries he suffered in a three-vehicle accident along the Trafalgar, West Coast Berbice (WCB) Public Road.
Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill yesterday urged the newly appointed Board of Directors of the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri to embark on initiatives that will transform and modernise the services of the facility.
Following a meeting of the Committee of Selection on September 15, the 12th Parliament has 14 fully constituted committees which will be responsible for various sectors.
Ministry officials have assured that measures to prevent the spread of the dengue fever in Guyana are being taken even as there are outbreaks in other parts of the Caribbean region.
The Ministry of Education (MoE) has announced that it will be hosting meetings with the Parent-Teacher Associations (PTA) to discuss strategies to ensure children are engaging during at-home learning.
Dear Editor, Over the last few weeks, I have had the opportunity to visit the Skeldon, Rose Hall and Enmore estates as efforts are being made to resuscitate operations there.
Residents of the Success Squatting Area are refusing to budge even as the area is being flooded by NICIL in a bid to dislodge them so as to facilitate planting in the abandoned sugar cane fields.
President Irfaan Ali yesterday held discussions with the Emir of Qatar, Sheikh Tamim bin Hamad Al Thani and aid to the COVID-19 fight here is on the agenda.
The Ministry of Education yesterday received 35 tablets from Demerara Bank Limited and Amazon Supply to be given to students in need.
A family of three whose house was completely destroyed by an electrical fire in September recently received a donation of $3.2m from the Central Islamic Organisation of Guyana (CIOG).
A man is now in a critical condition in the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH) after he was struck and dragged by a speeding funeral van along the Devonshire Castle Public Road, on the Essequibo Coast on Monday afternoon.
The beleaguered catfish industry worth an estimated $1.8 billion may soon get a new lease on life if, as the Agriculture Minister Zulfikar Mustapha hopes, the government is successful in having the ban on exports to the US removed.
Attorney General Anil Nandlall has announced that letters of termination were today sent to staff of the State Assets Recovery Agency (SARA), in keeping with the PPP/C’s administration’s plans to shutter the operations of the agency.
Two families were displaced last night after a fire of unknown origin gutted their Charlotte Street, Georgetown homes.
A 27-year-old man was yesterday remanded to prison after he was charged with murdering two women including a Venezuelan national over the last few months.
With Guyana’s international airports reopened to facilitate commercial flights, several airline operators have filed applications with the Guyana Civil Aviation Authority (GCAA) to resume operations, Director General Lt.
Chief Election Officer Keith Lowenfield was yesterday faced with six additional criminal charges alleging forgery and misconduct in public office during this year’s contentious general and regional elections process.
Mother of two, Angela Khan was yesterday afternoon sentenced to 10 years from which a number of deductions are to be made having pleaded guilty to the unlawful killing of Better Hope fisherman Bharrat Sugrim.
More than a month after he was shot by two men on a bicycle, city businessman Lennox Robinson yesterday afternoon succumbed to his injuries at a city hospital.
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