As the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) begins its investigation into the drug procurement process at the Georgetown Public Hospital, it is inviting members of the public who have information to submit written statements by April 12.
While Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo has said that stakeholders had an arduous task in finding nominees for the position of a Chairman for the Guyana Election Commission (Gecom), President David Granger says he remains optimistic that one will soon be found.
Saying that new local government elections would be held next year, President David Granger yesterday urged both new and incumbent Mayors and Deputy Mayors of the nine municipalities to engage and listen to citizens, who will have the power to decide their future in office.
Today’s public symposium on Guyana’s constitutional reform process was driven by popular demand, according to Severin Wilson, head of the Carter Center’s constitutional reform project.
The University of Guyana (UG) yesterday commissioned a new state-of-the-art lecture theatre building at the Turkeyen Campus.
Students of the University of Guyana’s Turkeyen Campus yesterday staged a protest against plans for a phased 35% tuition fee hike.
Munilall Sarjou, also known as ‘Long Hair,’ was yesterday charged with the murder of a fisherman, who was found dead last year with his hands and feet bound at the Number 68 Village, Berbice.
Reagus Lamazon and Samuel McIntyre, two of the men accused of murdering Laing Avenue taxi driver Orin David, were yesterday freed after a court found that there was insufficient evidence for them to stand trial.
Latoya Roberts, the Best Graduating Guyanese student at the Hugh Wooding Law School for 2016, was on Wednesday awarded for her continuous academic excellence by Attorney General Basil Williams SC.
Students residing in Guyana’s rural areas have a lower attendance rate than those in other regions, according to the findings of an Out-of-School Children Survey (OOSC) that was conducted by the Ministry of Education, in collaboration with the United Nations Children Fund (UNICEF).
The two per cent withholding tax on contractors’ earnings (individuals/companies) is not applicable to regular day-to-day commercial activities involving the trade in goods and services, the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) has said.
Two men were yesterday committed to stand trial for the murder of East Ruimveldt resident Senassie Lewis, who was gunned down in September, 2015, in front of the popular Ghetto Flex nightspot in Albouystown.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russia mounted a campaign of “propaganda on steroids” seeking to influence the 2016 US presidential election, the top Democrat on the US Senate Intelligence Committee said yesterday, listing several areas of concern about possible links to Republican Donald Trump’s campaign.
DAKAR/TAIPEI (Reuters) – A state-run Taiwanese bank has successfully sued two African countries for $212 million in unpaid loans and brought a claim against a third, court documents showed, in a possible warning to allies who switched sides in Taiwan’s spat with China.
Effective August 1 this year all importers of drugs, cosmetics and medical devices will be required to present an Original Free Sale and/or Health Certificate, the Government Analyst-Food and Drug Department (GA-FDD) announced yesterday.
A bar owner was shot during the wee hours of yesterday morning following a confrontation with customer.
SAO PAULO (Reuters) – A federal court sentenced Brazil’s former speaker of the lower house, Eduardo Cunha, to more than 15 years in prison yesterday for corruption, making him the highest-profile political conviction yet in the “Operation Car Wash” scandal.
CARACAS (Reuters) – Opposition leaders branded Venezuela’s socialist President Nicolas Maduro a “dictator” yesterday after the Supreme Court took over the functions of Congress and pushed a lengthy political standoff to new heights.
A maintenance worker at Alpha Hotel, Ogle, East Coast Demerara, was shot once to his abdomen by an elderly woman, after he allegedly refused to remove from the fence separating her yard from the hotel.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – Russia mounted a campaign of “propaganda on steroids” seeking to influence the 2016 U.S.
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