The relatives of a 21-year-old man who was stabbed last Friday and subsequently died three days later, are blaming the police for not helping to capture the man who inflicted the deadly blow. Dead is Krishna Maniram of Lot 119 Bladen Hall, East Coast Demerara (ECD), who succumbed to several stab wounds on Monday afternoon,…
Almost a month after it was denied a local content certificate to operate in the oil and gas sector in Guyana, RAMPS Logistics has resubmitted its application with additional documents that were requested by the Local Content Secretariat. In a statement, the company said it resubmitted the application on Thursday, while thanking the officials at…
Attorney-at-Law, who is the incumbent President of the Guyana Bar Association, Pauline Chase has been unanimously elected as the Chairperson of the recently-appointed Public Procurement Commission (PPC). A press release from the commission said that the body’s first meeting was held on Friday, at the commission’s secretariat in Queenstown, Georgetown. “In accordance with Article 212(Y)(3)…
The Alliance For Change (AFC) has backed a call by its coalition partner for President Irfaan Ali to call in independent investigators to probe the bribery allegations against Vice President Bharrat Jagdeo. The bribe-for-contracts allegations were made against the Vice-President by a well-connected Chinese businessman who was secretly recorded by the US-based Vice News Agency…
A total of 103 new COVID-19 cases were recorded after 683 tests conducted, the Ministry of Health reported on Friday. The new cases were recorded in Region One (nine cases), Region Two (11 cases), Region Three (five cases), Region Four (50 cases), Region Five (six cases), Region Six (three cases), Region Seven (one cases) and…
The Parliamentary Committee of Privileges has completed its report on the protest in the National Assembly during the reading of the Natural Resource Fund Bill and the removal of the Speaker’s Mace and is recommending the suspension of eight Opposition Members of Parliament. While the Committee of Privileges is made up of both members of…
(Sportsmax) Former West Indies wicketkeeper/batsman Denesh Ramdin has announced his retirement from international cricket. The 37-year-old Trinidadian who last played Test cricket for the West Indies against Australia in January 2016, made his debut against Sri Lanka in July 2005. In 74 Tests, he scored 2898 runs that included four centuries and 15 half-centuries, at…
The Medical Council of Guyana and the Ministry of Health are taking the matter of the young man who has been impersonating a doctor seriously and intend to file a formal criminal complaint against him. The young man who goes by the name Mikhail McLennan had first denied that he has been posing as a…
SUPREME Distributors is now the exclusive distributor for Premier Agencies Caribbean Limited in Guyana, the company said in a release on Thursday. According to the release, Supreme Distributors will be selling the Premier and Ever Green brands of household and commercial cleaning products. The agreement between the two companies was signed on Thursday in Trinidad…
–FAO Director-General says (FAO) GLOBAL food security is threatened in many and often overlapping ways, including the impact of COVID-19, conflicts and persistent extreme climate conditions, a situation that makes market transparency and policy coordination critical, QU Dongyu, Director-General of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO), said Wednesday. “It is essential…
