As investigations continue into the hiring of drug convict Lear Goring as the Debt Collection Manager of the Guyana Water Inc (GWI), information has surfaced that another key functionary was hired by the utility without the job being advertised.
The mother of Tuschen fisherman Salman Khan is unsatisfied with the pace of the police investigation into her son’s murder and has taken the decision to offer a reward for information that could lead to his killer(s) being brought to justice.
The lawyer for New York-based Guyanese businessman, Ed Ahmad is now seeking a November, 2016 date for his sentencing for mortgage fraud conspiracy.
In an effort to curb the high incidence of violence at the community level, the Ministry of Public Security in partnership with the Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) launched the first component of the Citizen Security Strengthening Programme (CSSP) yesterday in South Ruimveldt.
Public Security Minister Khemraj Ramjattan last Thursday said that he and his counterpart in Suriname are working together closely to fight piracy in both countries.
On Monday, Michael Ten-Pow was accredited as the Permanent Representative and Ambassador Extra-ordinary and Plenipotentiary of Guyana to the United Nations.
A man who was reportedly captured on close circuit television committing a brazen robbery at an internet café, was yesterday remanded to prison.
A misunderstanding between two taxi drivers about who would pick up a customer, led to an altercation which landed them before a city court yesterday.
The Liliendaal Acrow Panel Bridge is slated for a massive facelift.
Last week an exercise involving the planting of approximately 12,000 black mangrove seedlings along the Better Hope foreshore commenced.
Collis Amos, the second alleged bandit who was captured and severely beaten by a group of persons in North Ruimveldt last week, was yesterday charged and remanded to prison.
More than a year after Orpheus Johnson was charged with the murder of Nandy Park miner Travis Rudder, a date for the beginning of the preliminary inquiry into the charge has finally been set.
The prosecution yesterday presented two witnesses in the preliminary inquiry (PI) into the charge of murdering Courtney Crum-Ewing.
HAVANA, (Reuters) – Colombia’s government and leftist FARC rebels signed a final peace deal yesterday to end a 50-year-old guerrilla war, one of the world’s longest conflicts which took the resource-rich country to the brink of collapse.
A taxi driver was yesterday granted $150,000 bail by a city magistrate after he was charged with unlawfully wounding a man who refused to work for him.
The National Sports Commission and the National School of Music on Friday concluded their August Vacation programmes, which saw the participation of over 500 children from across the country.
KARKAMIS, Turkey/ANKARA, (Reuters) – Syrian rebels backed by Turkish special forces, tanks and warplanes entered one of Islamic State’s last strongholds on the Turkish-Syrian border yesterday, in Turkey’s first major U.S.-backed
NEW YORK, (Reuters) – If the U.S. presidential election were held today, Democrat Hillary Clinton would win the key swing states of Florida, Ohio and Virginia and have a 95 percent chance of beating Republican Donald Trump to become America’s first female president, according to the Reuters/Ipsos States of the Nation project.
Newspaper columnist and activist Freddie Kissoon on Tuesday testified at the trial of the men charged with dousing him with human faeces.
While the region’s students have improved their performance in English at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examinations this year, there have been noticeable declines in the pass rate in Mathematics and English B as well as a minimal decline in the overall pass rate.
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