The Government of Guyana is being urged to pay wages and salary increases to all sugar workers in light of the recent increases announced for public servants. Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo used his solo press conference today to call on the government that he has repeatedly described as “illegal” to offer the increases to sugar…
The removal of Dr Walter Rodney’s name from the National Archives is engaging the attention of the coalition Government and is being addressed with its partner, the Working People’s Alliance (WPA), according to Director-General of the Ministry of the Presidency, Joseph Harmon. Dr. Rodney –a political scholar who was assassinated in 1980 –is a founding…
Education Minister Nicolette Henry met with teachers and students of the Richard Ishmael Secondary School this morning following a schoolyard brawl at the school between a male and female student. The incident was caught on camera as the young man repeatedly punched the female student and other students just stood by. In a statement, the…
Twenty-nine-year old Lincoln Odell, who confessed to killing octogenarian Fitz Herbert Grimes in 2017 after the elderly man refused to give him money, was sentenced to seventeen years in prison. The murder occurred back in June 2017 at Race Course , Springlands, Corentyne. At the sentencing hearing at the Berbice Assizes on Wednesday, Probation and
The Ministry of Education has launched an investigation in the physical assault of a female student by a male pupil which occurred at the Richard Ishmael Secondary School. The beating, which was caught on video, went viral on social media, prompting the Ministry to intervene. Minister of Education Nicolette Henry spoke with reporters Wednesday about…
A smash-up on the East Coast Demerara at Lilliendaal has claimed the lives of the owner of the Kosmos Restaurant and Grill, Dillon DeRamos and his friend, Police Senior Superintendent Brian Eastman. According to eyewitnesses, DeRamos was the driver of the Lexus SUV heading towards Georgetown from along the East Coast when he swerved from…
A forty-year-old salesman of Perseverance village on the Essequibo Coast sustained a gunshot injury to his hip following a robbery on Monday night. Injured is Karan Persaud. Reports are that Persaud was shot around 20:10 hours Monday night at Zorg Market Dam. According to reports, Persaud went to a businessman’s home to drop off some
A 19-year-old labourer was on Tuesday charged with the attempted murder of 22-year-old Hansraj Durga called Kevin. Jermain Holder of Virginia Village, Cane Grove on the East Coast of Demerara appeared before Magistrate Marissa Mittelhozer at the Mahaica Magistrate’s Court and was not required to plead to the indictable charge. Holder was released on $100,000…
A 44-year-old U.S based Guyanese man was today charged with attempting to smuggle just over two pounds of raw gold out of Guyana. The accused Vibert Marks was busted at the Cheddi Jagan Airport on the 18th November 2019 with the precious and pricy metal in his suitcases as he was about to board a…
