The Ethnic Relations Commission (ERC) has started to investigate a complaint of unfair treatment by Vreed-en-Hoop Primary School Headmaster Alvin Johnson following his request to the Teaching Service Commission (TSC) for a promotion.
How did an old hefty cannon found in the Demerara River disappear from the Ministry of Public Works compound, Wight’s Lane although it was supposed to have been closely guarded?
The Ministry of Agriculture in collaboration with the New Guyana Marketing Corporation (NGMC) will be sending mobile trucks with supplies of basic commodities to Berbice and Linden, offering zero-rated and exempt items for sale at competitive prices to residents.
In the six months that it has been operational, the Cancer Care Institute at the Georgetown Public Hospital has seen a continuous flow of patients.
The still traumatised children of Agnes Henry and Abdool Hafeez constantly talk about the night their father “kill heself” and at night they are terrified, their grandmother Bibi Shahidan Khan says.
Secretary-General of the Caribbean Community (CARICOM), Edwin Carrington, has expressed deep regret at the death of Oliver Jackman who served his home country Barbados, the Caribbean region and the international community as journalist, diplomat and jurist.
He was the surprise hit of the British TV autumn; Mark Ramprakash, the once removed son of the soil of Cornelia Ida West Coast Demerara, Guyana danced his way to fame (and fortune?)
The National Drainage and Irrigation Authority (NDIA) would be executing some 60 feet of emergency revetment work on the Boerasirie Water Conservancy to strengthen the structure.
Minister of Local Govern-ment and Regional Development Kellawan Lall has called on officials to be more proactive in their respective communities by paying visits to schools and health facilities to assess, monitor, evaluate and give feedback to the Regional Democratic Councils (RDCs).
Two years after their plight was highlighted in the Stabroek News, a family of 12 of Vive-La-Force is still anxiously awaiting a house lot after numerous frustrating efforts and even though the Ministry of Human Services had promised to work along with the Ministry of Housing in securing same.
City Mayor Hamilton Green is calling for a public apology or an explanation for what he considers an offensive statement in reference to Guyana in the ICC Cricket World Cup 2007 ticket brochure.
The Ministry of Housing and Water is seeking to expedite the issuing of land titles and transports for house lots in squatter settlements and housing schemes countrywide, the Government Information Agency (GINA) reported Friday.
The Junior Calypso Monarch Competition got underway on Saturday at the St Ignatius Sport Club Ground as part of Region Nine’s roster of events for this year’s Mashramani celebrations.
Two Guyanese, a 40-year-old woman and 17-year-old boy are being held by the Canada Border Services Agency in New Brunswick after they were caught on Monday last attempting to enter the US illegally.
Wholesale vendors operating behind Stabroek Market staged a protest yesterday which culminated at Freedom House over what they claimed was the city constabulary’s unfair decision to remove them an hour before the arranged time.
The Ministry of Education will be moving to recruit retired teachers as part of a wider effort to enhance the delivery of education countrywide.
The Guyana Teachers Union (GTU) is calling for the withdrawal of the Teaching Services Commission (TSC) appointment of former Region Three Chairman Esau Dookie to head Saraswat Primary School.
Guyana’s ambassador to Venezuela, Dr Odeen Ishmael has found hope in the statement by Chairman of Venezuela’s Communist Party Jeronimo Carerra that the government of President Hugo Chavez could eliminate, once and for all, Venezuela’s “absurd claim” to five-eighths of Guyana’s territory.
An international audit agency has found Barama Company Ltd (BCL) and its auditor SGS-Qualifor deficient at varying levels following an audit late last year of BCL’s forest operations which led to a three-month suspension of BCL’s certification.
The Venezulean authorities are yet to submit a report on the shooting to death of Guyanese Parsaram Persaud allegedly by members of the Venezulean army at Eteringbang on October 6.
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