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None will escape paying VAT on electricity and water, not even the poor -Seeraj

None will escape paying Value Added Tax (VAT), not even the poor as is being touted by officialdom, since VAT charges will, either directly...

Unidentified pedestrian killed after colliding with swerving vehicle

Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred about 01:30 hrs this morning on the Friendship/Buxton Public Road East Coast Demerara (ECD), which resulted...

Gov’t, Opposition MP’s square off over usage of Sussex Street drug bond

– Team deployed to inspect facility Following a back-and-forth between Members of Parliament (MP), People’s Progressive Party/Civic (PPP/C) Anil Nandlall and Public Health Minister, Dr...

11-year-old killed by car allegedly speeding

By Ramona Luthi An 11-year-old Tagore Memorial School student, Simon Kendall, breathed his last this afternoon after a car, reportedly speeding, crashed into him on...

Police Corporal succumbs to injuries following car crash

By Ramona Luthi The Police Corporal who had crashed into two stray cows on the Susannah Public Road, Number 19 Village, Berbice on November 22,...

ECD man shot, robbed in Sophia

A 22-year-old East Coast Demerara (ECD) resident is now being treated for a gunshot wound to his leg at the Georgetown Public Hospital after...

Man found dead behind Mosque in Enmore

‒ suicide suspected Ramdat Ramdular, a joiner of Lot 113 Newtown Enmore, East Coast Demerara, was on Wednesday morning found dead in a coconut estate...

Cuban business owners urge Trump to continue thaw in relations

(BBC) More than 100 Cuban business owners have appealed to US President-elect Donald Trump not to reverse a recent thaw in bilateral relations. In a...

Suspect scales fence to escape from Police after opening fire

Following a brief exchange of gunfire between Police ranks on patrol duty and an identifiable male suspect in Werk-en-Rust, Georgetown on Tuesday evening, an...

Wole Soyinka, Nigerian Nobel prize winner, gives up green card over Trump

(CNN) Africa's first Nobel Prize winner for Literature, Wole Soyinka, has spoken for the first time since he said in October that he would...

Recent Articles

Legal icon Justice (rtd.) Désirée Bernard dies

Former Chancellor of the Judiciary of Guyana Justice Désirée Bernard has died. Justice Bernard’s biography is chronicled on the CCJ’s website. It states that she...

Traffic Advisory for Easter Monday

Traffic Advisory from the Guyana Police Force: Be informed that in on Monday 1st April, 2024 Easter activities will be celebrated country wide with an...

UK donates drone to GMCS for mangrove monitoring

A group of young indigenous girls and boys are being trained to champion conservation efforts in the Barima Mora Passage. They are being trained...

Counselling, other support for families of girls that died in Massara

The government has pledged to provide counselling and other support that may be necessary to the families of the three young girls who lost...

Current dry spell to persist until end of April, desist from lighting fires –...

Public Advisory from the Ministry of Home Affairs:  In recent developments, there has been a significant decrease in visibility attributed to a combination of ground...

Death of GDF rank: Truck driver says highway was dark, soldiers were not wearing...

See full statement from the Guyana Police Force:  Police are investigating a fatal accident which occurred at about 21:00 hrs last night (Wednesday) at Madewini,...

Texas-based Lindsayca to work on petrochemical plant, refinery & oil block in Guyana

Texas-based oil and gas firm Lindsayca has revealed that it will be doing critical work on three major local initiatives: a petrochemical plant, as...

GDF rank struck, killed by truck during annual walk

A Guyana Defence Force (GDF) Sergeant was struck down and killed by a vehicle while participating in the Force’s annual walk. Dead is Sergeant Deslyn...

Guyana will aggressively pursue oil for national development – Pres Ali to BBC

  An interview between President Dr Irfaan Ali and Stephen Sackur, the host of BBC’s “HardTalk” show, saw the Head of State forced to defend...

11 homeless after fire flattens Angoy’s Avenue houses

  Eleven people are now homeless after fire destroyed two houses at Angoy's Avenue, New Amsterdam, Region Six (East Berbice-Corentyne) on Wednesday. Rudolph Majeet disclosed that...