Guyana News

National Insurance Scheme (NIS) General Manager Patrick Martinborough may not renew his contract after it ends in November.

Police are investigating two accidents that occurred in two different parts of the country taking the lives of two men in the process.

The First Crossing, the diary of British surgeon Theophilus Richmond who sailed on the first ship, Hesperus that brought indentured labourers from Calcutta, India to Georgetown was launched last evening at Le Meridien Pegasus.

The Regional Democratic Council (RDC) of Region Nine has denied reports that students in the dormitories of the Annai Secondary School are surviving on one meal a day because the money given to the school by the RDC is grossly inadequate.

Home Affairs Minister Clement Rohee yesterday called on a group of junior officers to take their oath of office seriously, charging them to have respect for human rights and to remember that they were servants and not masters of the people.

The Ptolemy Reid Rehabilitation Centre recently received a supply of medical items to boost its services, from the Food for the Poor (FFP) organisation.

A four-member team of legislators from the Legislative Assembly of the State of Roraima in Brazil have indicated interest in investing in livestock farming, the production of yogurt, and acquiring lands in the Rupununi and intermediate savannahs to pursue these ventures.

The two men who were held by police late last week in connection with the murder of Sharon Kunick, whose half-naked body was found just off the Stewartville foreshore, West Coast Demerara (WCD), were released yesterday afternoon.

The PNCR has levelled 11 charges against former Central Executive Committee (CEC) member James McAllister for alleged misconduct committed before, during and after the party’s Congress this year.

Deep within the southern rainforest of Guyana a centuries old culture and a modern way of life meet and mingle in the Wai-Wai community of Masakenari.

The National Insurance Scheme (NIS) yesterday launched its website, which will afford persons access to printable benefit forms cutting out the hassle of having to go to the local offices to collect them.

The Mayor and City Council (M&CC) says it is alarmed at the increasing number of school-age children being found at the Mandela landfill.

Relatives of a Mahaica taxi-driver whose car was hijacked last Friday are offering a $200,000 reward for information leading to the recovery of the vehicle.

The Ministry of Health is hosting an eight-day medical outreach programme at geriatric homes across the country to mark International Day of Older Persons.

Almost one year since the Region Four administration was sworn in with the two major parties sharing the two top spots, Chairman Clement Corlette has described it as “a very good marriage”.

The 11 heart patients who were in desperate need of over US$17,000 for travel expenses are on their way to India after First Lady Varshanie Singh successfully conducted emergency fundraising drives in Guyana, New York, Canada and the United Kingdom.

One of three men implicated in the $100M cocaine-in-fish glue bust back in May, on Thursday denied ownership of the boxes that CANU ranks seized from a locked area in the house, saying he had no access there.

Magistrate Yohhahnseh Cave on Friday further remanded to prison a teenager accused of murdering a former presidential guard, on his second appearance at the Sparendaam Magistrate’s Court.

Two weeks after two Buxtonian men alleged they were brutally beaten and burnt by members of the joint services while in their custody, Home Affairs Minister, Clement Rohee yesterday said that the government does not support the torturing of any citizen and assured that the allegations are being investigated.

The Clerical and Commercial Workers’ Union (CCWU) and the Union of Agricultural and Allied Workers (UAAW) recently brought a number of concerns regarding the Value Added Tax (VAT) to the attention of the VAT Commissioner.