…President laments ‘insane rise in road accidents …restates three-point approach to road safety President David Granger has once again insisted that more must be done to prevent deaths, disabilities, injuries and damage to property on Guyana’s roadways as he finds “deeply distressing” the number persons who have lost their lives in road accidents recently and
The National Milling Company of Guyana Inc. (NAMILCO), currently in its 50th Anniversary year, is continuing its rich tradition of investing and empowering Guyana’s sportsmen and women. In the latest gesture of tangible investment, Managing Director, Mr. Bert Sukhai, has committed his company to sponsoring the third place prize of $500,000 for the Guyana Football…
Agents of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit are preparing charges against a Berbice man after he was held with over 100 pounds of compressed marijuana in the trunk of his car. A statement from CANU said East Canje, Berbice resident Jairam Lallman was intercepted by CANU agents on Monday night along Mandela Avenue behind the…
— EPA finds projects not particularly harmful to environment ESSO Exploration and Production Guyana Limited (EEPGL), a subsidiary of ExxonMobil, has applied to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for the authorisation to explore 31 wells in three oil blocks offshore Guyana. A notice published by the EPA, on Tuesday, indicated that the projects include a
Police have arrested a 45-year-old truck driver of Crane Village, West Coast Demerara following an accident on Tuesday night on the Houston and Meadow Bank Public Road which claimed the life of 18-year-old Deshon Morris. Police Headquarters revealed that Morris of East La Penitence, Georgetown, was riding motorcycle CJ 6021 with pillion rider Keon Granville,…
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs this afternoon confirmed a major shake-up that will see the Director-General being reassigned and a number of Ambassadors being brought back home. In a statement, the Foreign Affairs Ministry said the position of Director General will now be replaced by the position of Permanent Secretary as exists in other Ministries.…
…appoints Ambassador Charlene Phoenix as new PS for Foreign Affairs Ministry …ends services of several heads of missions THE Government of Guyana has scrapped the position of Director General at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MoFA)and instead appointed as Permanent Secretary a long standing staff to head the ministry’s administration. Simultaneously it has indicated that
After serving three years on remand for the offence of murder, 26-year-old Jamal Forde walked out of the Demerara High Court a free man on Tuesday. The charge against Forde of South Ruimveldt, Georgetown was discharged after High Court Judge Justice Sandel Kissoon upheld a no-case submission made by his lawyers Ronald Burch-Smith and Keoma…
Hours before the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) officially introduced its 2020 Elections Manifesto today, People’s National Congress Reform (PNCR) Executive Joseph Harmon said he is not impressed. Addressing the PNC Reform’s weekly press briefing at Congress Place, this midday, Mr. Harmon who also serves as the Director-General of the Ministry of the Presidency, labeled the…
…Lincoln Lewis deems PPP talk of reopening estates empty promises …says party sees sugar estates and adjoining communities as voting farms VETERAN Trade Unionist, Lincoln Lewis has said that the utterances by Presidential Candidate for the PPP, Irfaan Ali that he would reopen sugar estates should not be trusted and he flayed the opposition for
