Almost one week after he was severely beaten by his wife’s relatives and public-spirited persons, Anthony Luke called ‘Brother’, remains in a critical condition at the Georgetown Public Hospital. Luke, a technician of Wismar, Linden, reportedly beat his wife in the presence of their teenage son on January 4, with a piece of wood fracturing…
Faced with reopened schools and an ongoing surge in new COVID-19 cases across the country, Minister of Health, Dr. Frank Anthony today urged unvaccinated teachers and students between the ages of 12 and 17-years-old to get vaccinated. The Minister said parents should be encouraging their children to get vaccinated and teachers should get vaccinated too.…
Special Corporal Dawn Booker was crushed to death early on Monday after she lost control of her pedal cycle, fell onto the road, and was run over by a truck. The accident occurred at about 08:15hrs at the La Penitence Market in Georgetown. Police said that Booker, 57, of Perseverance, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara was…
Two weeks after a drunken fight left two miners in the North West District dead, one of the men accused of stabbing the men to death appeared in Court this morning to face murder charges. The murder accused, Kurtland Damon aka Carto appeared before Magistrate, Dylon Bess in the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court this morning after…
The number of active COVID-19 infections continues to climb as another 438 people tested positive over a 24-hour period after 1,680 tests were done, the Ministry of Health reported. With these additional cases, the number of confirmed infections in Guyana since March 11, 2020 has increased to 45, 340. A majority of those cases have…
The Guyana Public Service Union said today has written to the Public Service Ministry (PSM) once again to begin negotiations for wages, salaries, and allowances, and other working conditions of service for Public Servants for the years 2020 and 2021. The government last year approved a 7% across-the-board pay hike for Public Servants without consulting…
Despite being praised for his quick thinking by passengers, the Roraima Airways pilot who crash landed the trislander aircraft near the Haags Bosch Landfill site along the East Bank of Demerara (EBD) in August 2021 now faces suspension. While the suspension is only for a period of time, Director General of the Civil Aviation Authority…
Civil Society Group Article 13, has once again expressed its disappointment over what it sees as the continuous constitutional violations by the PPP government. In a statement, the group accused the Government of chalking up a formidable list of “constitutional violations”. “What makes those violations worse is the Administration’s cavalier disregard of legitimate calls for…
As the government looks to get the construction of the new high span Demerara River Bridge off the ground this year, it has assured that the current Demerara Harbour Bridge will not be old iron pushed in a corner. Millions of dollars more will have to be spent on the bridge for the next two…
Frustrated with incomplete works being done on government projects by contractors, Minister of Public Works Juan Edghill today announced that the government will be introducing legislation that will see the blacklisting of companies that fail their obligations under government construction contracts. Speaking at a press conference hosted by the Ministry of Public Works, Minister Edghill…
