Finance Minister Winston Jordan has called on the National Insurance Scheme (NIS) to consider the issuance of unemployment benefits. The Minister was at the time addressing the management and staff of the agency at its 49th-anniversary celebrations recently. He believes that the Scheme can help offset the country’s social and unemployment problems by paying unemployment…
The Guyana Prison Service has announced that a Prison Officer attached to the New Amsterdam Prison is now in Police custody. He is being investigated for his alleged involvement with smuggling over two pounds of marijuana and thirty nine packs of cigarettes in the prison. According to the prison service, from video evidence obtained, the…
… with full support of his family In 2009, Michael Anthony Abraham, A.A, a renowned son of the Rupununi, was strumming his guitar at an event marking the centennial anniversary of the Roman Catholic Church in the region when his guitar pick fell out of his hand. He stopped, bent down to retrieve the pick
A fire is currently ravaging a house in Enmore, East Coast Demerara (ECD). News Room understands that fire fighters are yet to arrive on scene. It is currently unknown if anyone is trapped inside the building. This is a developing story.
With breast cancer being the leading cancer in Guyana, more women are being reminded that early detection could save their lives and as such they are being encouraged to get screened early. Yesterday, First Lady Sandra Granger joined representatives from GTT and the Cancer Foundation to wrap the trees along the Camp Street Avenue in…
AFTER 45 years, HBO said on Thursday last that the network will no longer feature live boxing matches starting in 2019. “Going forward in 2019, we will be pivoting away from programming live boxing on HBO,” the network said in a programming statement. “As always, we will remain open to looking at events that fit
Dr. Vincent Adams, an Energy Expert and Scientist has been appointed Executive Director of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) effective today, October 1. Head of the Department of Environment, Ndibi Schwiers, during a formal introduction of the new EPA head today, said Dr. Adams will begin the process of transforming the EPA into a leading…
Dear Editor, THE Guyana Women Miners Organisation (GWMO) is yet again being slandered in the print medium. In January 2018, a similar article was sent to the media under the guise of a member of the GWMO. One article boldly carried the name of the alleged writer who visited both our office and the media house to
Of a total of 2,245 prisoners housed at the various prisons across Guyana, 1,484 are there on conviction, according to the Acting Director of the Guyana Prison Service (GPS), Gladwin Samuels. “Many of these young offenders are fathers and were the sole breadwinners. But these persons got lost somewhere along the way,” Samuels said Sunday…
The Guyana Police Force carried out an early morning operation in the East Bank village of Agricola today and several items that are suspected to have been stolen or illegally obtained were seized. Additionally, Police have arrested 29 persons. Between the early morning hours of 04:45-08:00hrs today, scores of Police ranks, commanded by a Senior…
