Justice Brassington Reynolds last week issued a provisional order for Attorney General Basil Williams SC to appoint the members of the Governing Board for the Deeds and Commercial Registries Authority.
Government may be one step closer to accessing the US$80 million currently being held by the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) from the forest protection deal with Norway, for alternative green energy projects.
More than 30 Movement Against Parking Meters (MAPM) supporters parked their vehicles in the vicinity of Muneshwers on Water Street for an hour yesterday, while daring staff of the parking meter company to take action against them.
Agriculture Minister Noel Holder yesterday told Wales sugar workers that GuySuCo and the Guyana Rice Development Board (GRDB) are about to conclude a pact where the GRDB will provide funding for a seed paddy project and in a few days land preparation will restart, allowing them another work option.
St Lucian poet Derek Walcott, who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, died yesterday at the age of 87.
A Better Hope man, who was injured in an accident after his motorcycle was struck from behind along the Le Ressouvenir, East Coast Demerara Railway Embankment Road on Monday night, has succumbed.
Randy Seepersaud, 22, the driver of the car that slammed into a utility pole on Phagwah night at Borlam Turn, Corentyne, resulting in the death of his friend, has been charged with causing death and driving under the influence.
The charge against Dwayne Griffith, the teen driver accused of causing the death of Buxton mother Nerisa Spencer last year, was yesterday dismissed after a financial settlement between the two families.
Roger Bess, the driver who struck and killed an elderly man with his speeding car along Cemetery Road, in Georgetown, just over two years ago, was yesterday sentenced to four years in jail for the crime.
The taxi driver accused of causing the death of passenger Camille Pereira, who died after their car collided with another vehicle along Croal Street in 2015, was found not guilty yesterday.
Dameon Ramgulam, who admitted that he lied under oath while serving as a state witness in a recent murder trial, is now a remanded prisoner after being charged yesterday with perjury.
Twenty-three cheques were yesterday tendered as exhibits in the trial of former PPP/C public service minister Dr Jennifer Westford and her former aide Margaret Cummings, who are charged with the alleged theft of over $600 million from the government.
A member of the Guyana Police Force was yesterday brought before a city court to face a charge that he sexually assaulted two women in Lethem.
Suspended Chairman of the Public Ser-vice Commission (PSC) Carvil Duncan remained adamant on Thursday that he never received any correspondence from Prime Minister (PM) Moses Nagamootoo to inform him of the establishment of a tribunal to investigate whether he ought to be removed from the post.
The Region Three Regional Democratic Council (RDC) has repaired the sluice in Leguan at a cost of $2.2M in order to prevent the recurrence of severe flooding in the area.
JOHANNESBURG, (Reuters) – South Africa’s Constitutional Court ordered the government yesterday to pay social grants on April 1 via its current service provider, seeking to end a fiasco that had threatened the payment of benefits to 17 million people.
Guyana Water Incorporated (GWI) has called on residents of Mahdia to share their knowledge with its engineers for the development of a new water distribution system.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department is developing plans to temporarily reassign immigration judges from around the country to 12 cities to speed up deportations of illegal immigrants who have been charged with crimes, according to two administration officials.
WASHINGTON, (Reuters) – The U.S. Justice Department yesterday said it delivered documents to congressional committees responding to their request for information that could shed light on President Donald Trump’s claims that former President Barack Obama ordered U.S.
(Reuters) – Costa Rica has received authorization to ship pineapples to China, opening a new market for the world’s top exporter of the fruit, the Costa Rican government said on Thursday.
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