Capsized M.V. Torani being removed from Mazaruni River
The capsized M.V. Torani is being removed from the Mazaruni River.
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The capsized M.V. Torani is being removed from the Mazaruni River.
Colonel General Staff of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF), Colonel Kenlloyd Roberts and a team of Officers on Wednesday welcomed French Captain (Navy) Laurent Martin and team for a courtesy call at Defence Headquarters, Base Camp Ayanganna, Thomas Lands.
As teachers took to the streets on day nine of what they say will soon become an indefinite strike, Vice President (VP) Bharrat Jagdeo has said that the Ministry of Education (MoE) may have to explore online methods to ensure that students are provided with tuition.
While extending glowing praise for Guyana’s oil-driven economic expansion, visiting Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, Kenji Okamura did issue cautionary hints including on overheating of the economy and the need for balanced growth.
By Abigail Headley The father of the girl who was disqualified from the children’s Mash competition for singing about the government’s 6.5% increase say that he and his wife are trying to console her as she is disappointed at the turn of events.
In a lengthy critique of the government’s trillion-dollar 2024 budget, the GPSU says it will not address poverty or the cost of living unless priorities are reconsidered.
Akeem Wong, a convict serving a 15-year sentence for rape, escaped from the Mazaruni prison compound yesterday.
The Castle Hotel at Lot 12 Chapel Street, New Amsterdam was destroyed by fire in Wednesday afternoon.
Teachers in Region Two continued to observe the GTU strike for the ninth day yesterday as they gathered on the side of the Anna Regina high bridge.
Thirty-six-year-old Winston Hazel, the electrician who was shot twelve times on Tuesday night in Tucville, Georgetown, remains hospitalized in a critical condition.
Abdool Shakoor and Yogindra Bheemsingh yesterday appeared before Magistrate Rabindranauth Singh at the Whim Magis-trate’s Court, according to the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit.
The Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Upper Berbice) administration breached Section 43 of the Fiscal Management and Accountability Act 2003 in 2019 since 228 cheques totalling $131.8 million were prepared for work that was still to be completed.
CNOOC Petroleum Guyana Limited (CPGL) – a partner with ExxonMobil in the offshore oil operations – wrapped up its third annual CPGL Green Art and Innovation Competition with a prize-giving ceremony on Wednesday at its offices.
Akeem Wong, a convict serving a 15-year sentence for rape, escaped from the Mazaruni prison compound earlier today.
As it had vowed, the Guyana Teachers’ Union (GTU) has moved to the court to challenge the planned deduction from salaries of teachers involv-ed in the ongoing industrial action, through which they are calling for better wages and improved working conditions.
City Mayor Alfred Mentore during a statutory meeting yesterday, addressed the planned building of a hotel by a Qatari inves-tor on the National Insurance Scheme and Guyana National Service grounds, located on Cari-festa Avenue, Thomas Lands.
The disqualifying of a child from the Mashramani calypso competition as her offering queried the 6.5% increase handed out by government has sparked criticism of the Ministry of Education.
Scotiabank has registered after-tax profit of $2.3b for the financial year which ended on October 31st, 2023.
The Georgetown Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GCCI) yesterday expressed confidence in the feasibility of the government’s planned gas-to-energy project, based on an independent analysis it had conducted.
Yesterday morning, dozens of employees of Banks DIH Limited took industrial action over the company’s commissions on their monthly sales.
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