Sheriff Street business Fitness Express has thrown its support behind this weekend’s Intermediate Bodybuilding Championship, set for the Berbice High School. Managing Director Jamie McDonald recently presented his sponsorship package to Videsh Sookram of the Guyana Bodybuilding and Fitness Federation, the organising body for the event on Saturday. Sookram said the Federation is pleased to…
The Office of the Attorney General has announced that the Government will be moving ahead this Friday with the official appointment of the Judicial Service Commission, the Teaching Service Commission, and the Public Procurement Commission. The members of the three Commissions will be sworn in by President Irfaan Ali. The Attorney General said the move…
By Vishani Ragobeer in Suriname Vishani@newsroom.gy Guyana and Suriname, the Caribbean’s newest oil-rich states, plan to develop their natural gas resources together and collaboration within the Caribbean has been touted as a solution to rising prices and supply cuts. This is according to the President of the National Energy Corporation of Trinidad and Tobago Dr.…
Eccles resident Andrew Morgan was this morning charged and remanded to jail over the alleged possession of more than seven pounds of cocaine. Morgan appeared at the Diamond Magistrates’ Court and pleaded not guilty to the cocaine trafficking charge. The Prosecutor’s case is that he was found with a large quantity of cocaine for the…
The police have arrested a 35-year-old man who allegedly threatened to kill President Dr Irfaan Ali during a violent protest on Tuesday along the East Coast of Demerara. Public Relations Officer of the Guyana Police Force, Mark Ramotar, told the press that the man, identified as Marvin Richmond, known as ‘Wakie’ was “arrested and detained…
Guyana and Brazil will be stepping up cooperation to fight transnational organized crimes. Earlier this week, the two countries signed an agreement for Inter-institutional cooperation. Guyana’s Minister of Home Affairs, Robeson Benn signed the agreement on behalf of the Government of Guyana. In addition to providing for increased cooperation to combat transnational organized crime, it…
The Ministry of Public Works on Wednesday signed a contract with an Indian firm – Rail India Technical and Economic Service Limited (RITES) Ltd – to supervise the construction of the Ogle to Eccles road link. The actual construction of the road will be done by India-based Ashoka Construction Company which won the US$106.4 million…
Two months after the bodies of close friends Richie Hansraj and Justin Teixeira were found in a car in the Marriott parking lot, a toxicology investigation found that the two men died from cyanide poisoning. In a brief statement today, the Guyana Police Force said the findings also revealed that the two men had a…
Two young men were on Wednesday sentenced to serve 10 years imprisonment for the murder of 75-year-old retired professor Pairaudeau ‘Perry’ Mars in 2016. The sentence was handed down by Justice Sandil Kissoon. Paul Chance, 23, and Andre Benjamin, 22, were initially charged with murder but pleaded guilty to the lesser offence of manslaughter last…
A Golden Grove man who is a known psychiatric patient was last evening arrested in connection with threats that he made against the life of the President while participating in yesterday’s protests along the East Coast of Demerara. In a statement this afternoon, the Guyana Police Force announced the arrest of 35-year-old Marvin Richmond. The…
