Month: November 2015

Georgetown : Minister of State, Joseph Harmon was today paid a courtesy call by Mr. Joel Tucker and Mr. Peter Assing from the Gideon International Organisation, who presented him a copy of the Bible.…

Two nephews of the wife of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro have been arrested on cocaine charges. Efraín Antonio Campos Flores and Francisco Flores de Freites were held after arriving on a private plane…

The Caribbean Public Health Agency (CARPHA) has confirmed five cases of Zika virus in Caribbean Community (CARICOM) nation. But it has not identified the country or given no details about…

Georgetown:  Over 35,000 residents in rural Guyana are expected to benefit from a US$2.4M loan agreement signed today between the Government of Guyana and the CARICOM Development Fund (CDF). This…

Georgetown: Guyana has invited the Director of the Hospitality Institute of Barbados to visit Guyana and assist with the implementation of a phased approach for a local hospitality institute. This…

Georgetown:  Government is mulling the idea of establishing data protection laws to accompany the Financial Institutions (Amendment) Bill 2015 which would allow the Guyana Revenue Authority (GRA) access to citizens’…

Georgetown : The Guyana Police Force has embarked on an aggressive zero tolerance campaign in all Policing Divisions across Guyana, to clamp down on the sale and use of Fire Crackers and…

Georgetown : Minister of Governance, with responsibility for the Natural Resources and the Environment sector, Raphael Trotman and Minister of Public Infrastructure, David Patterson, yesterday, paid a visit to the ETK…

Georgetown : President David Granger, who is currently in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, described Guyana’s participation at the Fourth Summit of the Arab and South American Countries (ASPA) as fruitful and a…

Georgetown: After being accused of killing Ryan Sooklall of Providence, East Bank Demerara last March, the suspect assailant, Jermaine Simon was gunned down Tuesday. According to Police Detectives in ‘A’…