Guyana News

 An Upper Corentyne family wants answers from officials at the Skeldon Hospital after their teenage son died following severe haemorrhaging through his nose, a day after being admitted for a fever.

The main opposition, APNU, does not recognize the newly-installed Bartica Interim Management Committee as legitimate and is unlikely to work with the body.

Passengers on board Delta Airlines incoming flight 383 from John F.

Chief Medical Officer, Dr Shamdeo Persaud, has warned against the excessive use of  certain prescription medications, particularly the drug, Cytotec, and has stressed that it must be prescribed by a registered medical practitioner.

Amid conflicting information from the police, the Toronto Star is reporting that the Guyanese charged with the killing of a man and injuring of six others at the Eaton Centre in Toronto on June 2nd has been linked to a gang called Sic Thugs.

Canadian mining company Sandspring Resources Inc has been granted an environmental permit for the development, construction and operation of a large-scale gold mine at its property at Toroparu, Region Seven.

Despite some difficulties, the Hope canal project is still “within the timeframe for successful completion,” according to the Ministry of Agriculture, which said on Saturday that overall 32% of the channel and dams have been completed so far.

A struggling Santa Rosa, Moruca couple is facing an uncertain future after a bid for land for their business in the Region One community was recently denied by the Village Council.

An historic 75-feet high tower was dismantled in New Amsterdam yesterday because the crumbling edifice was leaning and posed a safety threat to passers-by.

The Project Concept Notes (PCN) for the rehabilitation of the Cunha canal and the Amerindian Development Fund were approved by the Steering Committee of the Guyana REDD+ Investment Fund (GRIF) last week.

Guyana Public Service Union (GPSU) President Patrick Yarde said the union which is celebrating its 89th anniversary remains determined in its pursuit of social and economic justice for the working class.

By Anand Goolsarran Introduction A budget is a financial plan that drives the operations of any organisation.

Seventy-three-year-old Tyrel Bovell believes that his job at the Guyana Rice Board (GRB) provided the groundwork for training people to serve their country.

A man was placed on $150,000 bail on Friday after appearing before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on a charge of inflicting grievous bodily harm on another man.

Maritime authorities are still trying to find Gerald Fraser, who was on board the cargo vessel Miss Elissa, which capsized in the Demerara River on Friday afternoon.

A man charged with stealing a BlackBerry cellular phone and fraudulent conversion was remanded to prison on Friday when he appeared before Magistrate Hazel Octave-Hamilton at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.

Oliver Yaw was sentenced to nine months in jail after he admitted to fraudulently converting the money of a woman to his own personal use, when he appeared at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court on Friday.

Lawrence Wayne who was shot in his upper body in the Friday night incident at the National Culture Centre tarmac where three persons were injured has been moved from the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) to the male ward where he is said to be recovering well at the Balwant Singh Hospital, according to his relatives.

Concord Lodge, one of the oldest Masonic lodges in Guyana celebrated 100 years  of unbroken monthly meetings on March 20th last, having been consecrated on 20th March 1912 at Freemasons Hall, Company Path, Georgetown.

Two members of the United States armed services are relieved that they can now be themselves in the wake of the repeal of Don’t Ask Don’t Tell (DADT) by the Obama administration, after having lived a lie for years while serving in active duty.