A 45-year-old porter died on Friday morning after a truck laden with diesel ran off the road and crashed into the fence at the National Stadium at Providence on the East Bank of Demerara. Dead is Kirk Peters. The driver of the truck, John Da Silva was treated at the Diamond Hospital and was sent
The Region Eight community of Mahdia on Thursday became the country’s tenth township. Mahdia was first recorded a settlement in 1884 and achieved township status on August 09, 2018. Mahdia now joins three other new townships; Bartica in Region Seven, Lethem in Region Nine and Mabaruma in Region One. It will serve as the capital…
Hotel owner and businessman, Shervington Lovell aka “Big Head” has been arrested in Jamaica for suspected drug trafficking and he could also face other charges. The authorities are also looking at his possible involvement in cases of money laundering locally and internationally. Drug Enforcement officials in Guyana have confirmed the arrest to News Source. Two…
A pensioner is battling for his life after he was struck down on Wednesday morning on the Richmond Public Road on the Essequibo Coast. According to information , the man whose only name was given as “Livan” of Danielstown village, was struck down Wednesday morning around 07: 30 hrs by motor car bearing registration PKK
The Government and the Minibus Union have agreed on a code of conduct for minibus operators countrywide. A statement from the Ministry of Business disclosed that a meeting was held between the two parties on Wednesday where the United Minibus Union (UMU) agreed to propose the adoption of a draft Code of Conduct, to its…
The People’s Progressive Party, through its Executive Secretary, is taking its case against the appointment of the Chairman of the Guyana Elections Commission all the way to the Caribbean Court of Justice. The party through Attorney Anil Nandlall has officially filed his notice of motion, indicating the move to the Caribbean Court of Justice. The…
…judge dismisses PPP’s application in Whim/Bloomfield case …AFC’s nominators to remain on list JUSTICE Navindra Singh on Tuesday dismissed a court case filed by the People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) which sought to have the names of 50 nominators removed from a list submitted by the Alliance for Change (AFC) to the Guyana Elections Commission (GECOM)
She lost her father in the elementary stages of reading for a career law; seven years later she stood astutely in the presence of Acting Chief Justice Roxane George-Wiltshire where her petition to be admitted to the bar as an Attorney-at-Law was approved. Her name is Tevera Franklin. American author and motivational speaker Leo Buscaglia once stated,…
In a span of 11 years – 2002-2013 – the then Peoples’ Progressive Party (PPP) government installed 38 Interim Management Committees (IMCs) at the local government level in the absence of Local Government Elections (LGE). This was revealed by the Ministry of the Presidency’s Communications Director, Mark Archer in a social media post yesterday. Archer’s…
(Trinidad and Tobago Guardian)-The calypso fraternity has been thrown into mourning following the death early this morning of veteran Winston “Mighty Shadow” Bailey. Bailey, who celebrated his 77th birthday on October 2, died at hospital this morning after ailing for some time and suffering a stroke on Sunday. Bailey, who was to be conferred with
