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Musa Gray was granted bail yesterday after appearing before Magistrate Leron Daly at the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court on charges of assault causing grievous bodily harm and threatening language.
The Guyana Learning Channel yesterday wrapped up its second season of Whiz Kids with Marian Academy’s Joseph Prendergast emerging as the 2023 champion, a Ministry of Education (MoE) release stated yesterday.
The government continued with its emphasis of involving youth in agriculture with the donating of supplies to an East Coast farmers’ group by the Ministry of Agriculture (MoA).
At about 12:30 hrs on Thursday, police ranks were on a ‘Stop and Search’ exercise on the Fellowship Public Road, East Coast Demerara, when they stopped a motor car, HC 7522, and arrested a passenger who had in his possession over 10,000 grammes of suspected marijuana.
The Guyana National Bureau of Standards (GNBS) has acquired an $18m Leica BLK360 Imaging Laser Scanner to verify the contents of storage tanks.
In its now occasional dashboards, the Ministry of Public Health yesterday said that no new COVID-19 cases has been reported and only seven persons are in home isolation.
A garbage truck belonging to Cevons Waste Management burst into flames on Sheriff Street, Georgetown yesterday morning most likely as a result of combustible material that was among the garbage.
Police conducted a raid yesterday between 11:30 hrs and 13:20 hrs, in the Fort Wellington Station district during which several houses were searched and four persons from Bath Settlement were arrested and taken into custody.
The police today issued a wanted bulletin for Malissa Monilla for questioning on causing death by dangerous driving.
A Cevons garbage truck went up in flames on Sheriff Street this morning.
With some of them having spent 40 years in the area, 47 Parika Sea Dam, Region Three squatters are to be relocated.
A company by the name of Farmlands Guyana Inc is gearing up to cultivate 1,000 hectares of land in the Tacama Savannah, Berbice with corn and soya beans, according to the Ministry of Agriculture.
The One Guyana Floating Production, Storage and Offloading (FPSO) oil platform for ExxonMobil’s Yellowtail project has successfully entered dry dock at the Keppel yard in Singapore and three local companies will be fabricating fixtures for it.
By Subhana Shiwmangal President Irfaan Ali led an outreach to Region Three, at the National Track and Field facility, Leonora, West Bank Demerara yesterday and housing was one of the major issues raised.
Omar Williams, a 36-year-old miner of 11 Anna Catherina, West Coast Demerara, and of Lima Sands, Essequibo Coast, was on Wednesday charged with the rape of a child under 16 years.
Prime Minister Mark Phillips yesterday underlined the Government’s commitment to supporting investments to strengthen Guyana’s cyber resilience as it looks towards ICTs to facilitate the country’s transformation.
Dominic Macklingam, a 26-year-old taxi driver of Craig, East Bank Demerara has been jailed for two years over the unlawful possession of a firearm and ammunition.
Members of the Guyana Public Service Co-operative Credit Union (GPSCCU) have filed contempt proceedings against the union’s management committee which they say ought to be jailed for flouting a Court order in relation to holding a special general meeting.
A Canefield, East Canje Berbice, truck driver was yesterday placed on $250,000 bail after he was charged with causing death by dangerous driving following an accident in January at Rose Hall Town, Corentyne.
A couple is now homeless after a fire of unknown origin yesterday destroyed their concrete house at Liverpool, Corentyne.
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