The Government of Guyana today expressed deep condolences to Leader of the Opposition, Bharrat Jagdeo, his relatives and the People’s Progressive Party on the passing of his sister Oma ‘Shanta’ Jagdeo.
(Trinidad Guardian) A 25-year-old woman from Santa Cruz was allegedly stabbed to death by her estranged lover before he unsuccessfully tried to take his own life on Saturday.
Persons living in the Church Street vicinity of the proposed 150-room Sleepin Hotel and Casino, say that not only is the current structure an environmental humbug but they were never consulted about its construction or its planned casino.
The Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM) yesterday urged voters at Friday’s Local Government Elections (LGE) to take along their national ID cards when they go to cast their ballots.
A seventy-one-year-old woman who pleaded guilty to importing cocaine into the US from Guyana has been jailed for 18 months by a New York Court.
A Director for the Financial Intelligence Unit (FIU) is being sought.
The body of Dovan Sheppard, a Constable attached to the New Amsterdam Municipality was pulled from the Republic Canal at about 1800 hrs yesterday, hours after she had left to attend a wake house .
The Ministry of Public Infrastructure yesterday advertised for major rehabilitation of interior airstrips including the Eteringbang Airstrip in Region Seven at an estimated cost of $79.8m.
As the end of the crop cycle for rice in Mahaica and Mahaicony approaches, farmers have given up the fight to save their dying and almost dead crops and are seeking assistance from the government to restart planting in the coming months.
The Ministry of Education has advertised repairs and maintenance for 13 schools including to St Joseph High School at an estimated cost of $16m.
Commuters are peeved at the deplorable condition of the Parika Stelling and have called for it to be modernised and extended with better systems so that it could generate more revenue.
An Avinash Stores clothing bond was gutted by fire early yesterday morning at La Bonne Intention, East Coast Demerara.
Private city hospitals have joined bidders to supply the health sector with drugs and Trinidadian conglomerate ANSA McAl says that it will continue to bid and wants eligible companies to join for a competitive process.
Construction company S.A. Nabi and Sons Limited is in receivership. A notice in yesterday’s Sunday Stabroek said that a Receiver/Manager has been appointed by the High Court for the company.
At about 1350h yesterday, the police said that ranks of the Police Narcotics Unit on duty at the Ogle Airport arrested a Guyanese man who was an outgoing passenger, after 17 kilograms, 572 grams of cannabis sativa (marijuana) were found in his baggage.
A 67-year-old farmer of Canal No 2, West Bank Demerara suffered $8M in losses after his citrus farm accidentally went up in flames on Wednesday.
The two candidates for the Toevlugt-La Retraite, West Demerara constituency in Friday’s Local Government Elections (LGE) are looking past the planned closure of the Wales sugar estate even while they accept that the impact will be severe.
Rubis Guyana Inc. launched a new newspaper promotion from March 1, 2016.
A fifth form Mackenzie High School (MHS) student has won a youth business challenge organized by youth advocate Carwyn Holland.
SAO PAULO/BRASILIA, (Reuters) – Hundreds of thousands of Brazilians flooded the streets yesterday in the biggest ever protests calling for President Dilma Rousseff’s removal, reflecting rising popular anger that could encourage Congress to impeach the leftist leader.
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