Nineteen-year-old Shontay Hawker, who uses a wheelchair because of a chronic spinal disorder, is one step closer to her dream of becoming a lawyer after she passed eight subjects at the Caribbean Secondary Education Certificate (CSEC) exams. Although she has been dependent on a wheelchair for as long as she can remember, it hasn’t made…
A 62-year-old gold miner was arrested on Friday with 948 grams of marijuana and 55 grams of cocaine found in a milk tin during a police intel operation at Bartica Stelling in Region Seven. Police Headquarters reported that the miner of Beterverwagting, East Coast Demerara, was one of 13 passengers onboard a speedboat. The operation…
More 1,600 fisherfolk in Region Six (East Berbice – Corentyne) are set to benefit from the $150,000 fisherfolk cash grant. Hundreds of fisherfolk turned up at the Port Mourant Centre Ground and the Skeldon Community Centre ground on Friday to receive their cash grants following an end to the verification process recently. Addressing the fisherfolk,…
Chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) such as hypertension, diabetes and heart diseases have been among the leading causes of death in Guyana for years. With plans to modernise the local health sector, making healthcare more accessible to people, however, the government hopes to up the fight against diseases and in turn, increase the local life expectancy.…
Lakeram Sarjoo, 52, a pedal cyclist of Cumberland, East Canje Berbice is now dead after he reportedly collided with a hire car (HD 628) along the Canje Public Road on Friday. Police Headquarters in a statement said the accident occurred at about 08:10hrs. The driver of the hire car, a 47-year-old man of Angoy’s Avenue,…
Agents of the Customs Anti Narcotics Unit have arrested a 59-year-old woman from Haslington on the East Coast of Demerara after she was busted with more than 24 pounds of cocaine in several biscuit packets. The suspect, Unique Sunshine London, was an outgoing passenger at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on Wednesday destined for the…
A 36-year-old female cook of the Yarrowkabra village on the Soesdyke/ Linden highway was nabbed at the Bartica stelling in Region Seven with a compressed parcel of cannabis in her travelling bag. Police Headquarters reported that at about 08:20hrs on Friday, officers from the Bartica police station went to the stelling where an inbound speed…
An Essequibo man’s attempt at landing a big pay day by illegally transporting pricy singing birds to the US has landed him being bars. The man, Dhanraj Deochand, of Perseverance, Essequibo was arrested at the Cheddi Jagan Airport on Wednesday as he attempted to take six finches out of Guyana stashed in hair curlers. Deochand…
TEN years after the brutal killing of Joan Durant, who was found buried in the unfinished bathroom of her Melanie Damishana North, East Coast Demerara (ECD) home, her 75-year-old husband was on Thursday sentenced to serve four years in jail for the crime. Earlier this month, Gordon Durant appeared before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the…
Flagging a number of multimillion-dollar contracts awarded since the change in administration in 2020, the Alliance For Change (AFC), today called on the Public Procurement Commission (PPC) to launch an investigation into the issuance of contracts by National Procurement and Tender Administration Board (NPTAB). “The AFC calls on the Public Procurement Commission to conduct a…
