A man who allegedly broke into the Bagotville Post Office located on the West Bank of Demerara has been arrested. Police Headquarters reported that the man was found hiding inside a room at the post office. The incident occurred at about 03:05hrs on Monday. Police said ranks in Regional Division Three acted on information received…
Opposition Member of Parliament, Amanza Walton-Desir kicked off the 2022 National Budget in the National Assembly this morning in a fiery address where she dealt with a number of issues in the budget as well as the government’s day-to-day operations. She chided the administration for not offering anything in the budget for the poor and…
SOME young people get caught up in doomed relationships during adolescence, and, before they realise the problems in their union, a baby is on the way. Not all people are cut out to be parents. Babies are a lot of responsibility – they require genuine care, time, attention and love. When adolescent babies are unplanned,…
A doctor, who is the main suspect in the fire that ripped through a heart laboratory at the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation (GPHC), has been fired with immediate effect after the hospital’s management found that he was guilty of “gross misconduct” following a sexual harassment investigation. The News Room reported previously that this doctor works…
Opposition Member of Parliament, Amanza Walton-Desir kicked off the 2022 National Budget in the National Assembly this morning in a fiery address where she dealt with a number of issues in the budget as well as the government’s day-to-day operations. She chided the administration for not offering anything in the budget for the poor and…
NEW York City and surrounding areas were a ‘white out’ over the weekend. A major storm, delivering a massive punch of heavy snow and fierce knife-cutting winds, brought the Guyanese diaspora and the rest of the city to a grinding halt. The storm pummelled New York and neighbouring states on the north-east coast. It was…
Jermaine Maynard, who was sentenced to 88 years imprisonment for fatally shooting his 20-year-old ex-girlfriend, had his sentence reduced to 46 years on Monday by the Court of Appeal on the grounds that the initial sentence was excessive. In 2016, Maynard, 48, was sentenced by Justice Navindra Singh at the Demerara High Court after he…
Opposition Member of Parliament, Amanza Walton-Desir kicked off the 2022 National Budget in the National Assembly this morning in a fiery address where she dealt with a number of issues in the budget as well as the government’s day-to-day operations. She chided the administration for not offering anything in the budget for the poor and…
THE CHAIRMAN of the Guyana National Shipping Corporation Limited (GNSC), Euclin Gomes, has disclosed that no major losses were recorded in the aftermath of Sunday morning’s fire that occurred at the company’s Lombard Street location. Gomes, in his comments to members of the media at the scene, stated that the Board of Directors had taken…
Almost a week after the government presented the country’s largest national budget totalling $552.9 billion, the government has rebuffed arguments that central government and the private sector lack the capacity to fully implement the fiscal plan by December 31, 2022. The highly anticipated budget debates opened in the National Assembly Monday morning with Opposition Parliamentarian…
