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Forever lamenting suicides
Once again in the month of May, around Arrival Day, the Minister of Health has chosen to pronounce on the public health issue of suicide in Guyana. As we surmised last year, it was probably because...
PLANTAIN CHIPS ARE BACK
There are certain things that are happening in Guyana that suggest that we have a problem with income distribution. Interestingly, these developments are occurring at a time when the economy is...
Guyana, US sign pact to trace illegal weapons
Guyana has joined 18 other countries in the region with the capability to trace the origin of illicit firearm following the signing of a Memorandum of Understanding yesterday at the Ministry of Home...
CGX to begin drilling for oil next year
Drilling for oil on the off shores of Guyana and Suriname will commence next year, President and Chief Executive Officer of CGX, Kerry Sully said yesterday. During a press conference yesterday, Sully...
CANU rank charged for perverting witness in Colin Mack trial
An investigating officer attached with the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit was yesterday charged and placed on $75,000 bail after he tried to pervert the course of justice. Thirty-six-year-old Antonio...
NCN suspends ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur
Chief Executive Officer of the National Communications Network (NCN), Mohamed ‘Fuzzy’ Sattaur, has been suspended with immediate effect for failing to carry out a decision made by the Board of...
Canadian couples busted with $40M in cocaine
Police Narcotics Agents operating at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport, Timehri, yesterday busted four Canadians who allegedly had 9.9 kilograms of cocaine stashed in the false bottoms of their...
Ithaca murder accused remanded
Ithaca murder accused Gladstone Williamson was yesterday charged with killing a 31-year old plantain chip vendor – Gertrude Edwards, of Lot 282 Ithaca Main Road, West Bank Berbice and formerly...
Zeelugt, Tuschen suffer water woes
The residents of Zeelugt and Tuschen have been without water since last November. They say that the water stopped coming through their taps and upon inquiring of the reason from the water...
THAG wants more promotion for Guyana in the Caribbean
Local tourism operators who attended the recently concluded ‘Re-Discover the Caribbean’ Trade Show in Barbados are of the view that there needs to be more promotion of Guyana in the Caribbean....
UG student secures $550,000 bail for Mc Doom road death
Eighteen-year-old University of Guyana student, Priscilla Jagnandan, of 2811 Youth Place, South Ruimveldt Gardens, was yesterday placed on $550,000 bail by Acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson,...
GPHC overwhelmed by suicide attempts
…five reported in two days, one dies Over the past two days the staff of the Georgetown Public Hospital Corporation’s Accident and Emergency Unit has been overwhelmed with the number of attempted...
RPA pressure group seeks revamped industry
The Rice Producers’ Association Action Committee at a recent press conference, said that following an order granted by Justice Winston Patterson, to stop the Guyana Rice Producers Association...
Works underway on new international submarine cable
Chief Financial Officer of Guyana Telephone & Telegraph Company (GT&T), Yog Mahadeo, says that preparations are ongoing for the landing of a new international submarine cable to Guyana....
Dr. Ramsammy comes out in support of Alaei Brothers
In his capacity as Minister of Health, and President of the World Health Assembly, Dr. Leslie Ramsammy, has joined other health professionals around the world in urging the Government of Iran to...
Enmore brothers seek help for open heart surgery
Kids First Fund is seeking the help of the public to send two brothers for heart surgery in India. The boys, Yogesh Das, 7, and Kumar Singh, 4, of Lot 651 17th Street Foulis, Enmore, East Coast...
Nurse chopped during robbery
Karen Persaud, a female nurse, attached to the Suddie Public Hospital, who was robbed over the weekend and subsequently chopped on her left index finger, sustaining a wound to her left hand, has...
16-year-old remanded for cocaine trafficking
A 16-year-old, of Charlotte Street, Lacytown, was denied his pretrial liberty by Magistrate Hazel Octive-Hamilton, at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Court, yesterday. On April 23, last, the teen...
Businessman accused of deliberately driving vehicle to injure woman
A Long Island US-based businessman is facing the court for allegedly driving his vehicle in a manner to deliberately cause injury to Zalima Deen, the wife of his brother-in-law. The businessman,...
COTED to review CSME tomorrow
Guyana will be hosting the Twenty-Seventh Meeting of Council for Trade and Economic Development (COTED) to examine matters related to the implementation of the Caricom Single Market and Economy...
Courts Pee-Wee U-11 soccer tournament launched
Holding true to its motto, ‘Adding Value Everyday’, Manager of Courts Guyana Inc, Lester Alvis in delivering the feature address at yesterday’s launching of the Guyana Football Association...
Teachers in limbo at Diamond Secondary
Some teachers attached to the Diamond Secondary School, East Bank Demerara, are calling on the Board of Directors of the school to inform them of their official position at the institution ever since...
Hikers ‘A’, GCC Tigers qualify for gold medal round
– Degenerates, Hikers ‘B’ clash to decide 2nd Div. champions Hikers ‘A’ extended their lead in the men’s First Division Pool after a sound 10-4 thrashing of Western Dragons last...
Jamaican jailed for drug trafficking
Keisha Ann-Marie Piggott, a 25-year-old Jamaican, was jailed for four years and fined $2.4M after she pleaded guilty to trafficking in narcotics, yesterday. On May 11, last, at the Cheddi Jagan...
GTTA mulls French League participation
– National Cadets team to be selected The Guyana Table Tennis Association is mulling participation in the French Table Tennis League for its senior male players, while a meeting is to be held...
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-GFF Elite League Season VII weekend continues Kaieteur Sports- The rumble of football action echoed once again at the National Training Centre over the weekend as Season VII of the Guyana Football...
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Of Silk and Steel
Peeping Tom… Kaieteur News- By the time the first container ship from China—the Liu Lin Hai—steamed into a port... more
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