The Ministry of Public Infrastructure says it is conducting emergency works at Dantzig, Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara (ECD) to assist rice farmers affected by the breakage of a sea defence dam in the area. “A walkthrough will be done with the rice farmers and sea defence officers to ensure effective emergency interventions,” the Ministry said…
The Guyana Goldfields company today announced that the strike by some of its workers has ended at the Aurora mine and the company is restarting its operations in full. The strike went on for three days with the workers pressing the company to look into several of their concerns. Some of those concerns centred around…
Dear Editor, WHILE my personal style has been to conduct my business and stay out of the limelight, it seems as if the limelight has decided to come to me uninvited. For the second time in as many weeks, my name has been mentioned by Leader of the Opposition, Mr. Bharrat Jagdeo during his press
The Ministry of Public Health, in recognising the need to build capacity in nursing, has launched a second nursing annex of the Georgetown School of Nursing on Friday. The school became operational at the Critchlow Labour College on Woolford Avenue on July 2. The Critchlow Annex initiative serves as the Ministry of Public Health’s recognition…
A meeting between President David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo was described as “fruitful” as the two sides start the process for the appointment of a new Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission. The two leaders were accompanied by other representatives of the Government and Opposition at the Ministry of the Presidency meeting this…
IT augurs well for a society when its citizens can have open, frank and honest discourse on matters of importance to them. It is the essence of democracy, for, in giving expression to views, and in sharing ideas and knowledge, we, humankind, engage in exercising one of the most basic, yet taken-for-granted functions of our
A man so far identified as Leon Hescott was on Friday evening murdered in a house at Middle road, La Penitence, Georgetown. The News Room understands that the man who appears to be in his early thirties was shot three times to the head. The incident occurred at about 20:00hrs. When the News Room visited…
Police investigators have moved into the East Coast community of Better Hope to probe the shooting death of a money changer and his daughter. Dead are Aaron Latchman and his 19-year-old daughter, Arriana Latchman. According to a Police statement, the father and daughter arrived at their Better Hope home around 3 o’ clock this afternoon…
— following meeting with President, Opposition Leader — teams from both sides to ‘hammer out’ names before formal submission PRESIDENT David Granger and Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo exited a high-level meeting on Thursday with an agreement to have their respective technical teams hammer out the names of persons for the post of GECOM chair. This
By Isanella Patoir A woman has been detained by Police in connection with the brutal murder of Aaron Latchman and his 18-year-old daughter Arian who were killed during a robbery in Better Hope on the East Coast of Demerara on Thursday. Commander for ‘C’ Division, Calvin Brutus told reporters at the scene that the woman…
