Guyana News

The APNU+AFC government today defined which teachers would be provided with state-funded laptops.

Monday, November 28 is Budget Day. This is according to The Parliament Corner advertisement in today’s Stabroek News.

Three males, one of whom has confessed to the murder of a Kamarang resident, are in custody, as investigators trying to wrap up their investigation and seek legal advice, police say.

Construction of a US$20m hybrid Hotel and Shopping Mall is taking shape on Mandela Avenue and is expected to be completed by late 2018.

One week after a sex-tape scandal involving him made headlines across the country and region, self-proclaimed pope Philbert London yesterday used his church’s pulpit to break his silence on the issue, apologising to his congregation while asking that he be allowed to continue to minister to them.

One person is dead after two cars collided on the Parfait Harmonie New Road last night.

Disputing reports of the deplorable state of the Skeldon Estate, former President Donald Ramotar yesterday charged that the Guyana Sugar Corporation’s (GuySuCo) reported plan to either sell or diversify it was just part of the APNU+AFC government’s plan to shut down the sugar industry.

Declaring it a disturbing trend among political leaders, Transparency Institute Guyana Inc (TIGI) yesterday called for a moratorium on the politicising of crime and urged political leaders to band together to fight criminality.

Mourning the death of a relative, a Planters Hall, East Coast Demerara family was brutalised and robbed by three armed bandits early yesterday morning.

Fallen men and women of the armed forces were yesterday honoured at the 2016 Remembrance Day ceremony.

A week after Dennis Bissoon, of Plantation Hope, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was struck down on the Cove and John ECD public road, he remains in a semi-conscious state at the Georgetown Public Hospital.

The Ministry of Natural Resources is working with the New Petroleum Producers Group to host a seminar on “Governance of the Petroleum Sector: Preparing for First Oil”.

The preliminary inquiry into the charges against Alfie Garraway, Janiel Howard and Leroy Williams, the three men accused of throwing a grenade at Kaieteur News, continued last week with the testimony of a Kaieteur News security guard.

A twenty-eight-year old Chinese chef who was minutes after midnight shot and robbed as he was in the process of entering his Bonasika Street, Section ‘K’ Campbellville home, is hospitalised at a private hospital, in a stable condition, the police say.

WASHINGTON,  (Reuters) – President-elect Donald Trump backed away from his promise to build a wall on the U.S.-Mexican

The deplorable state of the Skeldon Estate and the expenses it is incurring have pushed the Guyana Sugar Corporation (GuySuCo) Board to look at the options of either selling or diversifying it.

Hosororo, a small community within the Mabaruma sub-district of Region One (Barima/Waini), exudes serenity.

A large quantity of contraband items, including improvised weapons as well as cell phones and drugs, were seized during raids conducted at the Georgetown and New Amsterdam prisons yesterday as part of increased security measures.

The police are hunting for the tenant who allegedly shot his landlord four times in his legs on Friday evening, after he was warned to discontinue doing illegal business on the man’s property.

The over 1,600 new graduates of the University of Guyana (UG) were yesterday urged to stay and make the country great once more.