Guyana News

For the second time this year Brutal Traxx is bringing entertainment strictly for gospel lovers with a show dubbed ‘Step out in Faith’ the biggest contemporary gospel show.

Simpli Royal has landed the franchise for the Miss Bartica Regatta pageant, billed for Bartica on April 7 and the head of that company promises something to remember.

The Richard Ishmael student who was accused of fatally stabbing a woman at her school just over a year ago was yesterday committed to stand trial for manslaughter.

Five bandits, two of whom were armed with “one long and one short gun”, attacked and robbed a family at Timmers Dam, Angoy’s Avenue in New Amsterdam of $4,000 and a quantity of gold jewellery worth $130,000 around 1:50 am yesterday.

The Local Organising Committee (LOC) said yesterday that several players on the ground were putting the “finishing touches” to the Guyana National Stadium at Providence and all were being managed “by a team”.

Marine turtles face many threats during their lifespan. From the time that they hatch from their sandy nests, to the age of maturity and beyond, there are many dangers that must be avoided.

Over the past several weeks, we have looked at what we can do to help build an environment where we no longer need to use corporal punishment.

The US Embassy will screen the documentary film Ladies First at the National Library on Monday, in honour of Women’s History Month.

The Sidewalk Film Club ends March with Quincea

Next week Saturday night at the Red House ten beauties will vie for a chance to represent Guyana at the Miss India Worldwide Pageant in the US, when they take to the stage in the Miss Queen of Beauty pageant.

Forty-eight women from across the country have launched a campaign to write to political leaders about the issues affecting them as a way of dealing with the “unfulfilled promises” made to them .They

Bandits on Wednesday robbed a woman of cash and jewellery when they stuck-up the Cool Square Beer Garden.

Joan Wiles-Alleyne appears to be an unassuming woman but beneath that fa?e

An East Bank Demerara man was on Thursday arrested after a police cordon and search operation unearthed two guns with matching ammunition.

Just days before her 24th birthday, the body of a young woman was recovered from the Essequibo River where she had gone to swim and drowned on Thursday.

Four men have been held and two others are being sought in connection with a $90 million diamond heist that was staged at the start of the month.

The Botanic Gardens has unveiled plans for the creation of the “Schomburgk Pavillion and Pond,” in honour of German anthropologist Robert Schomburgk.

The de-politicisation of the Guyana Elections Commis-sion (GECOM) remains a key feature of the final observer report for last year’s polls.

Five-year-old Girwattie Nelson of Yakusari Nursery School, who fell 20 ft from a section of the school corridor where some of the rails were missing, ended up with both of her legs in cast on Thursday after x-rays showed that they were fractured.

Relatives of Marcel Neptune who died after he was chopped on the neck last October in the Festival City area are dissatisfied with the lack of progress in the investigation into his murder.