Police investigators have launched a probe into the death of a 36-year-old truck driver who drove overboard at the John Fernandes wharf in the city. The dead man has been identified as Sheldon Wilson of Mahaica, East Coast Demerara. Surveillance video recordings of the incident captured the truck being driven slowly towards the edge of…
COME Monday, June 28, 2021, Guyana Elections Commission’s (GECOM’s) Chief Elections Officer (CEO), Keith Lowenfield; Deputy Chief Elections Officer (DCEO), Roxanne Myers, and the March 2, 2020 General and Regional Elections Region Four Returning Officer, Clairmont Mingo, will proceed on their respective annual leave. The People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) nominated GECOM Commissioners, Sase Gunraj, Manoj…
By Kurt Campbell Over the last six years, a total of 42, 100 Haitian nationals are recorded to have arrived in Guyana, according to figures confirmed by the News Room, but of that number, only 3,913 persons are recorded to have departed. This means that a total of 38,187 Haitians are unaccounted for but local…
The Ministry of Health this afternoon released a document from the Russian Direct Investment Fund confirming the number of Sputnik vaccines sold to Guyana and their corresponding batch numbers. Based on the information provided, Guyana received a total of 305,536 Sputnik vaccines. Of that number, 244,268 were first dose vaccines while the country only received 61,268…
–as garbage piles up in several areas of the city LOCAL Government and Regional Development Minister, Nigel Dharamlall on Monday criticised the Mayor and City Council (M&CC) of Georgetown for what he labelled as “mismanagement”, resulting in the piling up of garbage in Georgetown. “It’s quite unfortunate that in 2021, in the middle of 2021,…
By Kurt Campbell Exactly one week after withdrawing her membership from the People’s National Congress Reform (PNC/R), attorney-at-law, Thandi McAllister, maintains that her upset is with the current leadership of the party where former President, David Granger, sits at the helm. Granger had led the PNC/R and the wider APNU+AFC Coalition into the March 2020…
A 20-year-old Venezuelan woman died on the spot when the car she was in slammed into a power pole at Stewartville on the West Coast of Demerara. The dead woman has been identified as Julie Alejandro Brazen. Five other persons including four other Venezuelan women and the driver from Buxton are hospitalised with serious injuries.…
THE Government of India has approved for Guyana a US$17.5 million (GY$3.6 billion) Line of Credit to execute modernisation works on three of the country’s primary health care facilities. According to High Commissioner of India to Guyana, Dr. K.J Srinivasa, the contract has already been awarded for the preparation and submission of designs for the…
The Ministry of Education met on Monday with students of the North Ruimveldt Multilateral Secondary School who are scheduled to begin their Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) examination shortly. Also apart of the meeting were the parents of the students. On Saturday last, the teaching block of the school was destroyed by fire. This building…
A fire of unknown origin completely gutted a section of the North Ruimveldt Multilateral School on Saturday afternoon and the Education Minister has given the assurance that the school will be rebuilt. It was just after 1 o’clock on Saturday afternoon that heavy smoke was seen billowing from one of the main buildings at the…
