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After 34 years of operations, B.E.V Processors Inc will be closing the doors to its Fish and Shrimp Processing Plant at Houston next month and owner Bruce Vieira has cited market challenges, including the implementation of more rigorous certification requirements, as the major factors for his decision.
The Pan-American Health Organization (PAHO) will be investigating the presence of mercury at the Guyana Geology and Mines Commission (GGMC) headquarters on Brickdam.
The body of a Betsy Ground Village labourer was found on Monday with bullet wounds at a camp located in the New Forest backlands.
Opposition-nominated members of the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) walked out of yesterday’s statutory meeting after a clash between Chairman Justice (retd) James Patterson and Commissioner Robeson Benn on the ethnic composition of the Commission’s Secretariat.
With operators all along the coast protesting the rise in fuel prices and parking their buses, the Georgetown-based United Minibus Union (UMU) is expected to submit to the Ministry of Business a proposal containing a new fare structure and an outline of operational expenses.
A fruit vendor died on Monday evening, hours after he was stabbed on Cornhill Street, Georgetown during a heated argument allegedly by a man who is known to him.
Government yesterday released the names of the 227 local companies and individuals that ExxonMobil has done business with.
The parents of a one-year-old child, who died at the Mabaruma Hospital after receiving an injection for a cold and fever, are calling on the authorities to launch an investigation.
Seven hundred residents of Mabaruma will by August have seventeen hours of reliable electricity daily with the completion of Guyana’s first ever solar farm.
A Timehri businesswoman was yesterday charged with escaping from custody after being arrested for allegedly having cannabis for trafficking and selling liquor without a licence.
The sugar union, GAWU in April lost a libel claim against former AFC leader Khemraj Ramjattan over his allegation in September, 2008 that the union was funnelling money to the PPP/C.
Come the next academic year, students of the University of Guyana will be exposed to an improved language learning environment with the development of a language lab, following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) between the university and the Chinese Embassy.
Bids were opened yesterday for a series of projects in Moruca and other parts of Barima/Waini, Region One.
The trial of Vishwantie Ragnauth and Nyron Thakurdyal for the 2014 Boxing Day murder of Sunil Ramsundar will commence this morning before Justice Sandil Kissoon at the High Court in Georgetown.
Charged just last Friday with eight counts of fraud, a Diamond man was taken before a city magistrate once again yesterday to answer to another fraud charge.
A weeping Turkeyen man was on Monday remanded to prison after he denied snatching a woman’s gold chain.
A miner was granted bail by a city magistrate on Monday after he denied wounding another man.
Twenty-four young people from various parts of the country will begin training as Air Traffic Control Assistants (ATCAs) and Aeronautical Information Management Officers (AIMOs) at the Civil Aviation Training School (CATS) for a period of three months.
227 Guyanese owned companies have been benefiting from ExxonMobil’s business in Guyana, according to the Department of Public Information.
ST JOHN’S, Antigua, , CMC – Luxury hotel chain, Sandals Resorts, have replaced Digicel as the major commercial sponsors of West Indies cricket, in a two-year deal which will run until December, 2020.
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