A search is currently underway for 29-year-old Gavin Cox, a sailor of Batavia
Village, Mazaruni River who has been reported missing after a boat mishap about 7.45 pm on 2023-06-01 on the Essequibo River.
President Irfaan Ali has said that the lives of the children who died in the Mahdia Secondary School dorm fire on May 21 will be remembered through the implementation of positive change in their communities.
Four East Coast Demerara men were yesterday charged with the unlawful wounding of 28-year-old Sudesh Motie of Martyrs Ville, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara (ECD).
Eldon Burke, a thirty-one-year-old blockmaker, appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on June 2, before Chief Magistrate Sherdel Isaacs-Marcus to answer wounding and firearm charges.
Around 225 women have received a one-off cash grant provided by the government and the UN’s World Food Programme (WFP) to help them to generate economic opportunities.
Devon Rodney, a 47-year-old labourer appeared at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday before Magistrate Leron Daly where several charges of break and enter and larceny were laid against him and he was subsequently jailed.
After almost two weeks of intensive searching by the Joint Services, escaped death row prisoner Mark Royden Williams, also known as ‘Smallie’, and his accomplice were fatally shot by the Joint Services during what was described as a confrontation.
The establishment by Santo Domingo of an embassy here was hailed yesterday during the visit of Dominican Republic President, Luis Abinader and the two countries are to set up a high-level working group to advance co-operation.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says that it has complied with a High Court Order and had since May 9th issued an Enforcement Notice to Esso Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL) that it provide a parent company liability for any oil incident in the Stabroek Block.
The Corentyne man who was charged while a juvenile in 2020 with the murders of Canadian hotelier Vivekanand Brijbassi and his watchman Harry Persaud and opted to plead guilty to the lesser counts of manslaughter when he appeared at the High Court in Berbice last month was yesterday sentenced to four years in prison.
By Subhana Shiwmangal
Photos by Dave Gobin
(Intern with the Guyana Media and Communication Academy)
Disgruntled residents of Hill Foot, Soesdyke Highway, whose homes were demolished following a court order, yesterday morning for a second time protested their removal and appealed for help form the government.
Chanderpaul Persaud, Harilall Ramdan and Jagishwar Ghani are all now awaiting sentencing after a jury earlier this week convicted them of the 2017 stabbing death of Uitspa labourer Dhanpaul Dookie.
The Guyana Online Academy of Learning (GOAL) has apologised for the frustration suffered by one of its students who complained that the final exam for one of its courses was never administered.
APNU yesterday called for an investigation to be carried out into the Mahdia dormitory fire – an appeal made on the suspicion of the possible non-compliance with the critical fire safety guidelines laid out by the Guyana Standard Code of Practice for Buildings and the Ministry of Education’s Safe Schools Protocol.
The Guyana Police Force’s (GPF) efforts to combat sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) on Wednesday received a boost from Canada through the donation of computers and printers for SGBV units in Regions One and Four.
The Public Procurement Commission (PPC) held a one-day training seminar for suppliers and contractors at the Arthur Chung Conference Centre on Wednesday.