Health sector gets $10B this year
Government has allocated $10 billion to the health sector and will spend over $4 billion on the construction of new hospitals and polyclinics in a number of communities throughout the country.
Government has allocated $10 billion to the health sector and will spend over $4 billion on the construction of new hospitals and polyclinics in a number of communities throughout the country.
Buddy’s International Hotel and Resort is scheduled to open on February 20 and its foreign staff complement has begun to arrive in the country.
A search in the Corentyne River yesterday for Cheryl Peters, who is missing and feared dead after the ‘backtrack’ speedboat in which she was travelling to Suriname on Friday capsized, was unsuccessful.
A North East La Penitence resident accused of stabbing to death a man he believed was having a relationship with his wife, whom he also injured during his rampage, was set free by Magistrate Gordon Gilhuys on Thursday but was rearrested several hours later and recharged with the same offences.
A man who allegedly shot another in the head at the 2005 Main Big Lime was yesterday committed to stand trial in the High Court for the capital offence of murder.
Magistrate Fazil Azeez yesterday remanded to prison a man accused of stealing money from his mother.
A 30-year-old man who allegedly demanded with menace $1.2M from another after he had given the man some gold to sell appeared on Thursday in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court.
A 26-year-old mother of two on Thursday appeared in court accused of duping a woman of more than half a million dollars after pretending that she could get her a car.
A 20-year-old man who allegedly fondled a 19-year-old woman appeared in the Georgetown Magistrate’s Court yesterday charged with indecent assault.
Guyanese rugby players Theodore Henry, Albert La Rose and Claudius Butts, members of the West Indies team which will compete in the World Rugby Sevens tournament in the United States of America next Saturday and Sunday were presented with their tickets to Trinidad and Tobago yesterday during a press conference at the Guyana Olympic Association (GOA) building.
BERBICE, Guyana, CMC – Narsingh Deonarine hit an unbeaten half-century that lifted Guyana to a comfortable six-wicket win and eliminated Leeward Islands, in the fourth round of the KFC Cup yesterday.
CMC-Gwendolyn O’Neil is talking confidently ahead of her second fight against the famous Laila Ali tonight at the Emperor’s Palace Casino.
Minister of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr Frank Anthony and Chief Executive Officer of the Local Organizing Committee (LOC) for Cricket World Cup (CWC) 2007 Karan Singh are both confident that the Providence Stadium will meet the International Cricket Council’s (ICC) requirements and that Guyana will host the Super Eight matches, scheduled to commence on March 28.
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the People’s National Congress, Guyana’s second oldest, second largest and second most successful political party.
Three Essequibo residents who stole a bull and were later caught currying it in a large carahi at Windsor Castle were yesterday sentenced to a total of eight years in prison by Acting Chief Magistrate Cecil Sullivan.
Dear Editor, I am an Antigua and Barbuda citizen residing in Antigua.
Dear Editor, I have just read something that I feel compelled to challenge (SN Monday 07/01/29), on pg 10 under the caption ‘Jagdeo unhappy with education bureaucracy’.
Dear Editor, At approximately 17:00 hours on Thursday, January 18, 2007 some youths from the Lodge Community were playing their regular game of cricket on the tarmac of the National Cultural Centre.
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FORMER Guyana and West Indies all-rounder Neil Mc Garrell saved the day for defending champions Ce-ramic Merry Boys and spurred them on to victory and one of the three qualifying spots in Group A of the Carib Sunday League on Saturday.
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