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Minster of Social Cohesion, Amna Ally, last evening, announced Government’s allocation of $10M towards the advancement of the work of the Salvation Army in Guyana’s Rehabilitation Programme for 2017.
Continuous judicial education is needed to ensure that the competence of the judiciary is maintained and that the public receives the highest standard of service, acting Chief Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards said on Thursday, moments before launching the Justice Education Institute–Guyana (JEI).
With effect from tomorrow, January 1, 2017, the security fee per departing passenger via the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri will rise from $1,500 to $2,500.
The depositions of two deceased witnesses, were yesterday read into evidence at the trial of Dennis Williams, called ‘Anaconda,’ Mark Royden Williams, called ‘Smallie’ and Roger Simon, called ‘Goat Man’ who have been indicted for the massacre of the 12 persons at Bartica in 2008.
The Police in B Division are currently looking for two men for questioning in connection with the body of a forty-nine year old man that was discovered in a trench at Williamsburg, Corentyne, on Thursday, with several marks of violence.
According to the Chief City Engineer Colvern Venture, the city, in collaboration with the Ministry of Public Infrastructure (MPI), will be taking on the works to repair the sinkhole that appeared more than a week ago at the eastern end of the Seawall Road, near Carifesta Avenue.
A La Penitence man was yesterday remanded to prison by a city magistrate for allegedly harming a little girl with a sharp object.
The two Berbice constables who were remanded to prison on December 22, on the charge of having narcotics in their possession for the purpose of trafficking, once again were denied bail yesterday.
The huge forestry concession in the north west of Guyana relinquished by Barama Company Limited (BCL) has been quartered and one portion will be set aside for conservation.
Dear Editor, It is very sad that the Rice Producers Association representatives are misleading farmers in Region 5, when this association claims that it has the farmers’ interest at heart.
Two pump attendants employed by the Mayor and City Council were suspended for three days after they were found guilty of neglecting their duties at their pump stations during heavy flooding two Fridays ago.
The woman whose hand was severed by her ex-boyfriend on Christmas Eve, at Number 70 Village, Corentyne, Berbice, along with her mother who was also chopped, will be spending New Year’s in the Hospital.
Minister of Public Health, Dr. George Norton on Thursday visited the family of Lonette Nicholson-Prince, 22, the hairdresser of Lot 11 Levi Dam, Angoy’s Avenue, who was brutally stabbed some fifteen times by her estranged husband, in the compound of the National Psychiatric Hospital, New Amsterdam on Wednesday.
A teenager was yesterday granted bail after being charged with breaking and entering, and stealing over $200,000 in items.
A youth was yesterday placed on $50,000 bail by a city magistrate after he denied being involved in a robbery.
The Guyana Police Force says it is investigating the circumstances surrounding the death of a three-year-old who perished when her home went up in flames in an early morning blaze at Triumph Squatting Area, E.C.D,
The Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Inc today secured a conservatory order against the decision by the government to revoke its lease to the historic Red House.
President David Granger yesterday ordered that the controversial lease for the historic Red House to the Cheddi Jagan Research Centre Incorporated (CJRCI) be revoked and that the occupants vacate the property by tomorrow.
With the year almost at an end, hundreds of Wales estate workers remain in limbo and Minister of Agriculture, Noel Holder yesterday said that sugar is no longer viable and that GuySuCo does not see a way to make the Skeldon estate profitable.
An onshore oil and gas facility which will see the investment of US$500m and the creation of 600 jobs is to be built at Crab Island, Berbice.
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