The Guyana Police Force is investigating an alleged assault committed on a 25-year-old male sex worker at Herstelling, East Bank Demerara. The suspect is a 34-year-old welder who is in custody assisting with the investigations. According to a police report, at about 18:00 hrs on Tuesday, the sex worker claimed that he was heading to…
President of the Caribbean Court of Justice, Justice Adrian Sauders is not giving an appeal to the notion in Guyana and some other jurisdictions that the Court is biased. The Caribbean Court of Justice was thrown into the local spotlight following the no-confidence motion against the APNU+AFC government in 2018 and the aftermath of the…
STABROEK Online Marketplace (SOMP), a new platform that will be creating a space for local products to garner international attention, was launched on Tuesday during a ceremony held at the Marriott Hotel. Chief Executive Officer of SOMP, Althea Toney, said that the e-commerce platform, which will officially become open to the public on May 19,…
Trinidad and Tobago has been confirmed as one of the host locations for this season’s Hero Caribbean Premier League, set to start on August 30. There will be eight matches played in Trinidad during September 12-18, with home team Trinbago Knight Riders taking part in four of those games. Shamfa Cudjoe, Minister of Sport and…
President of the Caribbean Court of Justice, Justice Adrian Sauders is not giving an appeal to the notion in Guyana and some other jurisdictions that the Court is biased. The Caribbean Court of Justice was thrown into the local spotlight following the no-confidence motion against the APNU+AFC government in 2018 and the aftermath of the…
A SITE has been identified for the construction of a new multimillion-dollar Skeldon Hospital, as part of the government’s plan to improve accessibility and efficiency in the public healthcare system. This was according to Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony, who was at the time addressing residents of Region Six during a Cabinet outreach on…
Health Minister Dr. Frank Anthony says that the government will not yet introduce COVID-19 booster doses for teenagers since less than half of the adolescent population received their first and second Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine doses. Teenagers- that is, those individuals aged 12 to 17 years- have been receiving the US-made Pfizer COVID-19 vaccine exclusively, since…
President of the Caribbean Court of Justice, Justice Adrian Sauders is not giving an appeal to the notion in Guyana and some other jurisdictions that the Court is biased. The Caribbean Court of Justice was thrown into the local spotlight following the no-confidence motion against the APNU+AFC government in 2018 and the aftermath of the…
APPROXIMATELY three decades of marriage ended tragically early Tuesday morning, when Vijay Raj, a fisherman, stabbed his wife, Savitrie Raj, to death. According to police reports, the incident occurred around 1:00am at the couple’s Lot 563 Fifteenth Street, Foulis, East Coast Demerara home. Recounting the incident, the couple’s son said that he was in the…
Nationwide flooding gripped Guyanese during last year’s May/ June rainy season but Prime Minister Brigadier (Ret’d) Mark Phillips says that the local authorities are better prepared for the upcoming rainy season because of the increased focus on improving drainage. Because of the devastating impact of the floods last year, the Prime Minister explained that large…
