President David Granger last evening attended a reception to bid farewell to the 11th batch of the Chinese Medical Brigade and welcomed their replacement; a 16-member team of medical professionals, who arrived in Guyana two days ago, a release from the Ministry of the Presidency said yesterday.
Members of the Guyana Police Force stationed aboard the M.B. Tamakay, the $100m floating command base at the mouth of the Waini River, North West District were on Saturday paid a courtesy call by Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo who led a team of government officials on a tour of the vessel.
Three men were today remanded to prison after they were charged in connection with the grenade that was lobbed at the vehicle of the owner of Kaieteur News, Glenn Lall.
Amid widening criticism, Town Clerk Royston King today said that a city team in Mexico City is being presented with the final rollout schedule of the parking meters project.
Amid an increasing outcry over a clandestine contract for parking meters in the city, Deputy Mayor Sherod Duncan yesterday said that a more competitive process to select the contractor for the project should have been undertaken even as he pointed out that the city would be making a major investment.
Ranks from the Customs Anti-Narcotic Unit (CANU) yesterday afternoon unearthed 1,275 pounds of marijuana which was hidden in a container that had recently arrived from Jamaica.
Chaos broke out yesterday afternoon at the St Stanislaus College as irate parents of students of the Brickdam Secondary School objected to the Ministry of Education’s decision to shut down the institution and relocate the students and teachers to different schools around the city.
A young Bartician was yesterday charged with the murder of Madewini mechanic Puranand Baljit and remanded to prison after appearing at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court.
A Berbice-born woman, who returned to Guyana from the United States for the Jubilee celebrations, is now stranded here as on her way out last Saturday, her passport was misplaced after she handed it over to two check-in agents at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport (CJIA), Timehri.
Region 10 chairman Renis Morian is decrying what he described as the wastage of millions of dollars spent to purchase a boat and a generator for two communities in the region under the previous PPP/C administration but which were never used.
Multi-million dollar tenders were opened yesterday for the rehabilitation of the Bartica stelling and the supply of beds for the Intensive Care Unit at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC).
The Hope Canal on the East Coast of Demerara has helped to alleviate flooding in Region Five as it was effective in draining the excess water from the East Demerara Water Conservancy (EDWC).
A 31-year-old man admitted that he sold a car that did not belong to him, to another man and also created fake registration documents for the vehicle when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday.
A 51-year-old Guyanese man was ordered deported from Barbados after he pleaded guilty to stealing a number of items including condensed milk and corn beef from a supermarket, the Barbados Today reported yesterday.