A man who was convicted on drug trafficking charges two years ago and was on bail pending the hearing of his appeal, is back behind bars this evening after he was charged and remanded to jail for the murder of his reputed wife. The accused, Jermaine Bristol, appeared in Court this afternoon and was not…
Guyana’s National Football, popularly known as the ‘Golden Jaguars’, refuse to play their last friendly game in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil in protest for unpaid stipend. The team is currently preparing for the CONCACAF Nation’s League qualifier and will play their first game at home at the National Track and Field Centre against Barbados on
The search is on for the next young lady who will represent the ancient county of Berbice with distinction when she competes at the upcoming Miss Berbice/I’m a Big Deal beauty pageant slated for Saturday, November 24 at the Albion Sports Complex Ground. Royston Drakes Production launched the pageant in 2017 as a way of…
As the GTU wraps up its information session with teachers across the country on the planned strike action, it has found itself heading back to the negotiating table with the Ministry of Education as the two sides are set to meet on Friday afternoon to begin conciliation under the Ministry of Social Protection, which overlooks…
THE section of Merriman Mall, which stretches from Vlissengen Road going West to the western boundary of Albert Street, and bordered by Church Street to the north and North Road to the south, can be described as a peep into the window of what a garden city should be. In fact, this section of the
Rice Farmers along the Essequibo Coast are owed an estimated $137 million from millers for paddies supplied in the first crop of 2018, according to the Ministry of Agriculture. In a statement Thursday, Minister Noel Holder criticized the millers for the delay in payment, which is a violation of the Rice Factories Act. Minister Holder also…
Two former Chiefs of Staff of the Guyana Defence Force will now be sitting on the Executive of the People’s National Congress Reform. Retired Rear Admiral Gary Best and Retired Brigadier Edward Collins have both been elected to the party’s Executive Committee. The two are among the new faces on the PNC’s highest decision making…
Police are investigating the death of a 24-year-old woman who was allegedly killed by her reputed husband on Wednesday morning. The woman has been identified as Shenece Lawrence of Broad Street , Georgetown. Reports are that the woman was fatally stabbed by her husband , who is a security guard. Reports are the couple were planning
Sections of the country began to quiver again after neighbouring Venezuela experienced another forceful earthquake approximately thirty minutes ago. The earthquake was measured at 5.9 and comes just hours after a 7.3 magnitude that had sent tremors through South America and the Caribbean. The tremors felt in Guyana during the second quake was not as…
Over three hundred teachers in the mining town of Linden turned out at the LICHAS building at Mackenzie today to show their full support of the move by the Guyana Teachers Union to begin a nationwide strike action from next week. GTU President Mark Lyte and a team from the Union traveled to the community…
