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Friday, March 29, 2024

“He is just a child” – mother pleads for safe return of missing son...

By: La'Wanda McAllister  The mother of 16-year-old Akeem Bissoon of A Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown, who disappeared without a trace at the Aruwai airstrip in...

Almost 5000lbs of ganja, 196lbs of cocaine seized by CANU for the year so...

  The Customs Anti-Narcotics Unit (CANU) seized a whopping 2238 kilograms (4933lbs) of cannabis from January 1, 2022 to date. This shows a 475% increase...

CARICOM to capitalise on agri-strategy presented by Guyana

The Caribbean Community (Caricom), cognisant of the urgency in reducing its food import bill, is taking action to implement the “25 by 2025” food...

Significant progress being made in slashing Caricom food import bill – Pres Ali

President Dr Irfaan Ali, who is in Suriname for the Caribbean Community (Caricom) Heads of Government meeting, has reported that significant progress is being...

Covid: 42 new cases; 3 in ICU

Guyana has recorded 42 new cases of the novel coronavirus, taking the total positives detected to date to 67,699. There are 33 persons in institutional...

2023 pension books to be distributed from August

Pensioners will be able to uplift their 2023 pension books beginning mid-August to December this year, Human Services and Social Security Minister, Dr Vindhya...

Soldier remanded for murder of Berbice hairdresser

A serving member of the Guyana Defence Force (GDF) was today remanded to prison for the murder of 29-year-old girlfriend, Donalesa Park, a hairdresser...

Accessibility is a hallmark of the PPP/C administration – Dharamlall

A high-level ministerial team on Monday held an outreach in Buxton, East Coast Demerara (ECD) where Local Government and Regional Development Minister Nigel Dharamlall...

Almost 1 month later: 3 cops charged over killing of Quindon Bacchus

Almost one month after he was killed during a police operation in his community of Golden Grove, East Coast Demerara (EBD), three cops were...

1 seriously injured after SWAT vehicle crashes head-on with van at Soesdyke

A 28-year-old resident of Timehri, East Bank Demerara (EBD) is now seriously injured after the motor van he was driving collided head-on with a...

Recent Articles

18 areas earmarked for new housing developments

The government has revealed a comprehensive strategy aimed at further reducing the backlog of house lots within the Ministry of Housing and Water’s database. Minister...

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...