The Chief Executive Officer of the Government’s National Industrial and Commercial Investments Limited (NICIL), Horace James has died. He passed away early this morning in his hometown of Linden where he had been battling cancer. James is also a former CEO of Linmine who also served as the Head of the Linmine Secretariat. He worked…
Success will be “one-off” unless CWI governance changes: Mitchell
ST GEORGE’S, Grenada (CMC) – Grenada’s Prime Minister Dr Keith Mitchell has warned that unless there is a change in the current administration of Cricket West Indies (CWI), instances like last weekend’s shock win over England in the opening Test will remain one-off occurrences. Speaking in the wake of the Windies’ crushing 381-run victory inside
Couple arrested following drug bust in Charlestown
Ranks of the Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) acted on a tip and swooped down at Lot 82 St Stephens, Charlestown, Georgetown where they intercepted large quantities of what is suspected to be marijuana and cocaine. A couple has been arrested and are assisting with the investigation. CANU’s Deputy Head Mr. Leslie Ramlall said CANU had…
No Arrests, but persons being questioned about shooting of Nations School Director and Threats Against School
A number of persons including past and present students of the privately owned School of the Nations are being questioned in relation to the online threats against the school and the shooting of the Director of the School, Dr. Brian O’ Toole. The school cancelled all classes and kept its gates tightly shut today as…
Independent autopsy inconclusive on death of 6-Y-0 cancer victim
A second Post-Mortem Examination (PME) was done Monday on the body of 6-year-old cancer victim, Sharezer Mendonca, days after her body was mixed up with another child at the Georgetown Public Hospital mortuary. The PME was done by Dr Nancy Sitchoa in the presence of the Mendonca’s family, the Independent Pathologist from Trinidad and Tobago…
School of Nations Director shot after hosting emergency meeting on threats against school
The Director of the private, School of Nations, Dr. Brian O’ Toole is nursing a gunshot injury to one of his arms after being shot at his Bel Air home. News Source understands that Dr. O’ Toole was arriving home earlier tonight from a special emergency meeting that he hosted for parents of the school,…
Irfaan Ali promises to re-open sugar estates
In his address to some 4000 supporters in Berbice Region 6 Saturday, People’s Progressive Party (PPP) Presidential Candidate Irfaan Ali promised to re-open the two sugar estates in Berbice if the Party is elected to office again. “The first thing we are saying to you is that we are going to re-open the estates here…
‘Let’s support women in local businesses’
– Founder of Women in Business Expo, Sonia Noel urges POPULAR designer/fashion icon, Sonia Noel, says there are no words to describe her feelings as she continues to witness the positive effects that the ‘Women in Business Expo’ have been having on women from all across Guyana. Included in the midst of the over 50
Education Ministry dispatches mobile counseling unit to Mae’s following student’s suicide
Although the Mae’s School is privately operated, the Ministry of Education on Friday morning dispatched its mobile counseling unit with trained counselors to the Mae’s Private School to assist those students who may be affected after a teenage girl of the school took her own life. Education Minister, Nicolette Henry and Chief Education Officer, Marcel…
11th anniversary for 11 souls lost in Lusignan Massacre
By Isanella Patoir It did not take gunmen more than 20 minutes to brutally murder eleven persons from the Lusignan community, East Coast Demerara on January 26 eleven years ago. The notorious ‘Fine Man’ led a gang of men with high powered rifles through, Track “A” – the street where this historic mass killing occurred, in the…
