Jagdeo Ramdass, also known as ‘Spragga’ is expected to make an appearance at the Springlands Magistrate’s Court, Corentyne, Berbice on Monday to answer to charges of trafficking narcotics. A statement from the Customs Anti Narcotic Unit (CANU) noted that on Wednesday December, 08, some of its ranks received a tip off and conducted a narcotics…
The Alliance for Change, which is a partner in the APNU+AFC Coalition, believes that whoever would have been chosen as the Chief Elections Officer would have found themselves under suspicion of nearly half of the population. The AFC’s statement in response to the hiring of new Chief Election Officer, Vishnu Persaud, came after stinging criticism…
–$29B earmarked for future development By Nafeeza Yahya-Sakur OVER 14,000 residents in several communities in East Canje and other surrounding communities will benefit from potable water with the commissioning of a new water-treatment plant at Sheet Anchor, East Berbice-Corentyne, Region Six. President Dr Irfaan Ali was present on Saturday to officially commission the plant; it…
Construction worker Norman Abrams, 23, of ‘B’ Field, Sophia died on Saturday after he fell from scaffold while working. Police said Abrams was employed with Christopher Menezes of Montrose, East Coast Demerara. He was on a scaffold along with another worker, putting on moulding on the outer part of a western roof of a two-storey…
With heavy and persistent rainfall continuing to pound several parts of the country, President Irfaan Ali has activated a Cabinet Level Task Force to respond to the current rainy season and potential flood impacts across Guyana. In the past two weeks, several parts of the country have been experiencing heavy rainfall with the weather office…
The National Milling Company of Guyana (NAMILCO) has joined forces with the Guyana Football Federation (GFF) and the Guyana National Women’s Football Association (GNWFA) as a lead sponsor of the inaugural GFF-GNWFA Women’s Super 16 Festival 2021, providing funds for the year-end competition’s first prize. Senior executives from NAMILCO, a long-term supporter of football as…
Tragedy struck Friday afternoon at St. Ignatius Village, Central Rupununi when a minibus carrying a family of five erupted in flames. The family was from the village of Baitoon. Silvia Sebastian and Bernice Edwards and some of their family members were returning home with their monthly shopping from Lethem. At around 16:00 hrs, the driver…
Insisting that it was losing billions on an annual basis due to electricity theft, the Guyana Power and Light (GPL) says it has begun phasing out the traditional prepaid meters, hundreds of which have been found to have been tampered with. The company’s Chief Executive Officer (CEO) Bharat Dindyal said the new Advanced Metering System…
Police have confirmed that the man who strangled his reputed wife to death on Friday night at Martyr’s Ville, New Scheme, Mon Repos, East Coast Demerara, has succumbed after taking his own life. Police identified the man as 50-year-old Balram Heeralall also called ‘’Nappy”. He is reportedly a clothes vendor. He murdered his reputed wife,…
A 41-year-old supervisor attached to Kissoondyal Enterprise Inc. Rice Mill at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara, was on Friday robbed some $3.4 million in cash. The money was intended to be payment for workers and rice farmers. Police said the woman left the rice mill on Friday at about 10:30hrs with four cheques amounting to $3,463,798.…
