The dog that was walking around the compound of the Leguan hospital with a fishing hook in its right hind leg has finally gotten relief after a rehabilitation assistant mustered the courage to remove it.
Several former sugar workers believe that the four shuttered estates should be reopened so that they will be able to make a living after they were all left unemployed following the closures.
An $89.6M sluice and revetment project at Thierens on the Essequibo Island of Leguan was commissioned yesterday, the Department of Public Information (DPI) reported.
Two senior members of the Guyana Police Force, including an Assistant Commis-sioner of Police were late last week seconded to positions outside of the force.
Acting Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus yesterday denied the request by the attorney for murder-accused Marcus Bisram that the Preliminary Inquiry (PI) into the capital offence be done in a Georgetown court.
The issue of poor drainage within Georgetown dominated the list of complaints and concerns of residents when they met with Mayor Ubraj Narine, city councillors and other officers during the municipality’s inaugural Public Day on Tuesday.
Chief Executive Officer (ag) of the National Industrial & Commercial Investments Ltd (NICIL), Colvin Heath-London has expressed his satisfaction with the renovations and upgrades valued at some $131 million to several of the company’s properties in Linden and Kwakwani.
A Matthews Ridge, North West District man was granted bail yesterday after he was charged with wounding a shopkeeper, who reportedly threw a bottle at him after refusing to repay the money he owed.
Trevor Amsterdam, the man accused of killing murder suspect Jermaine Simon at Bagotstown, East Bank Demerara (EBD) in November 2015, pleaded not guilty to the crime as a High Court trial in the matter began on Tuesday.
Tenders were on Tuesday opened at the National Procurement and Tender Administration Board for works to the sea and river defence project in Region Six from Sisters to Lonsdale Ville.
A 63-year-old miner was taken into custody on Tuesday morning following the discovery of a quantity of suspected cocaine at Skull Mountain, Arakaka, North West District.
A man who admitted to stealing from two persons who he claimed owed him money, including local DJ, Magnum, was sentenced to 18 months in prison yesterday.
A youth accused of stealing a flat-screen TV from the St Joseph Mercy Hospital, where he works, was released on bail equivalent to the value of the TV when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court yesterday.
A Hadfield Street man, who allegedly asked his victims for money before pulling a knife and attacking them, was remanded to prison after appearing in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, charged with two robbery offences yesterday.
The Ministry of Education has launched an investigation into the assault of a St Agnes Primary school teacher by parents of a child at the school’s Church Street, Georgetown premises sometime today.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) has approved the lists of 11 contestants ahead of the March 2 General and Regional Elections (GRE); of that number nine will be contesting the General Elections.
Shivanand Roopnarine was yesterday morning handed a life sentence for the brutal slaying of his girlfriend, Sophia teen Alicia McPherson, whom he stabbed more than 40 times in 2015.
Chairman of the Integrity Commission Kumar Doraisami has disclosed that as of last Wednesday, 23 government and three opposition Members of Parliament (MPs) are still delinquent in the filing of their 2019 declaration of assets as required by the Integrity Commission Act.
Twenty-six-year-old Terrence Pitt, who was accused of killing Festival City resident Darrell Breedy during a home invasion last October, was remanded to prison yesterday after he was charged with the crime.