PNCR back-bencher Ernest Elliot while focusing on matters affecting regional development in Region Four contended last week that over the years funds allocated to the administration had been inadequate and remains that way this year.
Robert Simels, the New York lawyer for drug accused businessman, Roger Khan is to file a motion to have the Guyanese released from administrative custody at a federal jail in the US, saying that Khan is locked away in a cell which only allows him three showers per week and no telephone privileges.
Miners are being offered a range of cash incentives to prospect for the highly valued platinum, emeralds and other minerals.
Passengers who used the Rosignol to New Amsterdam (NA) ferry service at around 5:30 am yesterday complained that they were delayed for some time after the MV Torani drifted away from the stelling.
The relatives of Yonette Mc Donald, who was involved in an accident on Friday night that took the lives of her reputed husband and another man, fear that she too may succumb as she is still unconscious and hooked up to a life-support machine in the Intensive Care Unit (ICU) of the Georgetown Public Hospital.
A priest was refused bail by Magistrate Chandra Sohan after he appeared at the New Amsterdam Magistrate’s Court on Friday on a charge of possession of narcotics for the purpose of trafficking.
The death of Constable Michau Cort, 27, has prompted Magistrate Chandra Sohan to lambaste the police for not observing the rules governing the schedule for “music boxes” to play at public functions.
A driver appeared in court on Monday on a robbery under arms charge and was remanded to prison.
A Sophia resident who was allegedly found with cocaine during a police operation, appeared in court on Friday and was remanded to prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.
There was a strange feeling of love in the air last week.
The world (Great Britain) grandmaster’s degree of 10th Dan Black Belt was given to Dr.
President of the Athletics Association of Guyana (AAG), Claude Blackmore stated yesterday that the newly-formed athletic club, Running Braves was not debarred from competing locally but it was, however, ineligible to compete in inter-club meets.
The Georgetown Cricket Association (GCA) yesterday named a squad of 14 players and six standbys for the upcoming inter-association competition scheduled for February 27-28 and March 2nd.
Coordinator of the just-concluded 2007 Bounty Farm Ltd Mash Handicap Tournament Robert Fernandes has hailed the event a success.
The two finalists in the Annual Mayor’s Cup football tournament will be decided this evening at the GFC ground where an explosive double header is carded.
Jamal Duff and Chelsea Edghill secured the boys and girls’ under-11 titles respectively when the 2007 annual National Sport Commission (NSC) Mashramani table tennis tournament continued at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall yesterday.
Last week’s assault by a cutlass-wielding criminal who injured a student while angrily pursuing a teacher at the St Gabriel’s Primary School in Oronoque Street, Queenstown, has highlighted the threat to safety in this country’s schools.
Bandits armed with guns and cutlasses terrorized two families at Williamsburg Squatting Area, Corentyne on Monday at 9 pm and at 1:45 yesterday morning and made off with almost $3M in jewellery and cash.
Four youths who allegedly broke and entered a video game store and carted off close to $1M worth of items appeared before Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan on Monday.
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