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Donald Bradford, a 55-year-old resident of Central Amelia’s Ward, Linden who was involved in an accident on the Burnham Drive Public Road, Linden on 2023-02-28 with motorcar PRR 3963 while under the influence of alcohol, was on Wednesday, March 8, 2023 charged with the offence and subsequently had his driver’s licence permanently suspended.
A raging fire yesterday burnt a structure of the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) located on Lombard Street Georgetown, which was supporting one of their primary distribution feeders from the Kingston and Vreed-en-Hoop power plants, a GPL release stated.
Fifty-two persons from across the Pomeroon-Supenaam (Region Two) district yesterday benefitted from the Central Housing and Planning Authority’s (CH&PA) steel and cement subsidy amounting to some $15 million.
The Ministry of Education yesterday took another step towards digitizing education with the launch of the Animal Friends Learning App.
On the occasion of the second International Day of Women Judges observed yesterday, the Supreme Court of Judicature said it was pleased to join with women worldwide, even as it paid homage to its own past lady justices: former Chancellor Desire´ Bernard, Justice (retd) Claudette Singh and Justice (retd) Claudette La Bennett.
The 29-year-old security guard who was on Thursday nabbed by police ranks at Plaisance on the East Coast of Demerara with an illegal Taurus pistol and matching rounds of ammunition was yesterday charged and remanded to prison for the offence along with an unlawful wounding charge.
Electrical power has been fully restored between spans 10 and 61, on the Demerara Harbour Bridge (DHB).
The Saraswati Vidya Niketan in collaboration with the Ministry of Education yesterday celebrated being named the Caribbean Advanced Proficiency Examinations (CAPE) School of the Year 2022 and honoured the CAPE Top student 2022, Atishta Seenarine.
In observance of International Women’s Day on Thursday, eight women who made exceptional and dedicated contributions to the growth and development of the Private Sector were honoured by the Private Sector Commission [PSC].
The Marlborough Primary and Nursery schools are now connected to solar electricity supply.
The Ministry of Health yesterday reported four new cases of COVID-19.
The Chairman of the Joint Services, Brigadier Godfrey Bess today said that he wished to remind citizens that irrespective of its ethnic composition the Joint Services “is an apolitical institution and will continue to uphold the noble position of service to the people of Guyana”.
Citing high production costs, rice farmers across the country are still to be convinced that government’s recent announcement that they will be paid at least $4,000 per bag of paddy will bring any relief to them.
For the first payment for its oil share for 2023 from the agreement with ExxonMobil and partners in the Stabroek Block, Guyana received US$82.25M which will be added to the already US$1.3B in the Natural Resource Fund, held in a New York Federal Reserve Bank account.
A man has been found guilty of trafficking in persons and sentenced to prison.
Founder of the Amaya Milk Plant, Omkaar Sharma visited Agriculture Minister, Zulfikar Mustapha at his office yesterday and presented him with a sample of paneer, a release from the Department of Public Information said.
Head of the state holding company, NICIL, Radha Krishna Sharma, in response to queries from this newspaper over the termination of a deed of lease yesterday said he is not in position to comment on the matter.
Ewart Stewart, the 38-year-old lorry driver who was arrested on March 6 over the gruesome accident on the Greenwich Park Public Road, East Bank Essequibo, was charged yesterday with four counts of Causing Death by Dangerous Driving.
Well-known private sector executive and former Managing Director of Demerara Distillers Limited (DDL), Ramesh Persaud, has resigned from that post and is now heading National Hardware Limited (NHL).
The body of a driver from Ogle, East Coast Demerara (ECD) was discovered in a drainage canal near his home on Wednesday night.
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