Barama Company Limited yesterday made a parting donation of a computer to the school children of St Monica/Kariwab and also handed over a $5.5M building after pulling out of its operations earlier this year when villagers of Akawini, upset by a logging deal, commenced a campaign against the company.
Trinidadian companies are offering a host of energy services here as Guyana prepares to embark on exploration projects which it is believed will yield oil in commercial quantities.
A 22-year-old teacher attached to St. Stanislaus College is battling for her life in hospital after the motorcycle she was a pillion rider on slammed into the back of a car on Sunday night on the Railway Embankment, Bel Air.
Guyanese law student Sohan Jaikaran Poonai won the honour of Best Graduating Student at the Hugh Wooding Law School for 2005/2007.
The Police Complaints Authority (PCA) says Chairman, Justice Cecil Kennard, will pay a two-day visit to the Essequibo Coast to address members of the Guyana Police Force (GPF) based in the area and to receive complaints from residents about errant officers.
Republic Bank (Guyana) Limited last week pledged more than $6M towards the development of sport and education for 2007/2008 when it formally launched its community programme, the ‘Power to Make a Difference’, locally at the Bank’s New Market Street headquarters.
Residents of the Angoy’s Avenue community should not have much time to be “idle” since the Congo Nya Cultural Foundation Library & DVD Club was recently launched to keep them occupied.
The Lions Club of Central Demerara on Thursday donated a quantity of medical supplies for diabetic patients to the Ministry of Health.
A ‘Stand Up – Speak Out!’ pledge and service was held Wednesday at the new Art of Living Centre in Turkeyen, in support of the eradication of extreme poverty and the achievement of the United Nations Millennium Development Goals by 2015.
Since Guyana attained republican status 37 years ago, the government usually announces a list annually of persons who are honoured for their outstanding contribution to the country – be it in sports, music, culture, education, and other fields of endeavour.
Two men who are charged with murder were further remanded when they appeared before Magistrate Geeta Chandan at the Blairmont Court on Monday.
Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys on Friday denied beauty queen Carolan Lynch’s attorneys’ requests for the negatives of photographs taken of her murdered cambio boss husband, Farouk Razac’s body during the post-mortem.
Six persons including two children and a heavily pregnant woman died after a car suffered a tyre blow-out on the East Coast Demerara (ECD) Highway at Bel Air, near the now abandoned Texaco Gas Station causing the driver to slam head-on into a concrete fence and a guard hut.
Two men died last evening and another two were seriously injured when an unlicensed driver of a minibus in a bid to dodge a police patrol slammed into the concrete culvert on the Supply Public Road, East bank Demerara.
A 53-year-old soldier was early yesterday morning found dead in a barrack room at Camp Stephenson, Timehri with what police said were marks of violence to his head.
Five Water Users’ Associa-tions (WUA) were formed 12 years ago as a pilot project to assist farmers in the Abary/Berbice areas with their secondary drainage and irrigation (D&I) systems but “it never got off the ground.”
Guyanese have a better chance of living with the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) that in many other countries, UNAIDS Country Coordinator for Guyana and Suriname Dr Ruben F Del Prado said in a recent press release.
On Saturday night it was indeed a tough battle for the mature and professional women in the Ms Guyana Renaissance Pageant and at the end of it all 35-year Simone Beckles emerged the winner from a pool of ten.
A 42-year-old man is fighting for his life in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) after he was attacked by another man who hit him several times over his head with two bricks.
What type of water do you drink? Tap water, boiled water, rain water or bottled water and why?
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