The Inter-American Development Bank (IDB) has suspended the disbursement of funds to the Chinese contractor for the US$31 million Sheriff Street/Mandela Avenue road expansion project, David Patterson, the Minister of Public Infrastructure has stated. “This road expansion contract is an IDB funded contract which is subject to performance audits by the Bank. “The IDB has…
Police investigators in Lethem are probing the suspected murder of a Brazilian national in the community. According to a statement, the headless body of the Brazilian man was found lying along the roadway on Sunday morning in Lethem. The town of Lethem is located on the border with Brazil. The dead man was identified based…
…Justice Cummings-Edwards tells UG graduates …Valedictorian charges students to look beyond race, religion and other biases By Jared Liddell CHANCELLOR of the Judiciary, Justice Yonette Cummings-Edwards, Saturday evening, encouraged graduates of the University of Guyana to stay here and develop this country. “You and I know that you have dreams and you have goals, and
The Guyana Bar Association has expressed condolences on the passing of former Chief Justice (ag) Ian Chang who died on Saturday following a battle with cancer. See their full statement below: It was with a sincere sense of loss, together with an appreciation of the blessing of mercy, that The Bar Association of Guyana was…
Chairman of the People’s National Congress, Health Minister Volda Lawrence today said the APNU will not be negotiating with the AFC in the media. Lawrence who has been heading the APNU’s team in the Cummingsburg renegotiation talks told reporters this morning that issues are still being discussed and it would not be wise at this…
Reports are that former Chief Justice Ian Chang passed away earlier this evening at a private city hospital. Chang was battling cancer for sometime. Chang acted in the post of Chief Justice from 2000 until December 2015, when he he headed into retirement. Details to follow.
Commissioner of Police Leslie James DSS, DSM, on Saturday, graduated from the University of Guyana with a Commonwealth Masters in Public Administration. A press release from the Police Force noted that Mr. James during his visit to the various Policing Divisions at the time he was pursuing his Masters, urged the ranks to pursue higher…
Two weeks after he was sentenced to 22 years in prison over the rape of a 6-year-old girl, former Linden resident Selwyn Lancaster has appealed the case. The sentence was handed down by Justice Simone Morris-Ramlall. The man’s Attorney is appealing the sentence on the grounds that the trial Judge made an error in summing…
–who aspires to make it big one day MUSIC has always been a ‘go-to’ for many young people, including 19-year-old Akeem Alexander, who hails from Diamond, East Bank Demerara. Akeem is a customer service representative with aspirations of becoming an artiste. In an interview with ‘The Buzz’, the young man said that he considers himself
A six-year-old boy is nursing five stitches to his right hand after one of his classmates at the Mon Repos Primary School, East Coast Demerara reportedly cut him with a broken lemonade bottle. The child’s father, 30-year-old Sause Asgar told the News Room that the incident occurred Wednesday morning. The father said he is not…
