By Leonard Gildarie One of the country’s leading commercial banks has announced several new loan packages to target “green” projects across the country, including solar panels and wind towers. The announcement was made yesterday when the Guyana Bank For Trade and Industry (GBTI) launched its spanking new branch at Diamond, East Bank Demerara. Two other banks, Demerara [...] [...more]
A local insurance executive is loud in his praise for ranks of a police mobile unit in the city who responded promptly and recovered his briefcase that was snatched by a thief around 9:00 hours last night. The thief, who gave his name as Rodwell Leon, 33 of Sister’s Village, West Bank Demerara, was shot in [...] [...more]
Snowstorms in the United States and Canada saw several flights to Guyana and the region being cancelled, forcing several Guyanese to sleep at airports in the foreign country and in Trinidad and even at the Cheddi Jagan International Airport on Christmas night. A message on the Caribbean Airlines website Tuesday warned that while it continues to [...] [...more]
Dead 3 year-old Arial Sahoy The dead child’s mother Sheliza Sahoy A man who was accused of causing the death of a three-year-old girl by dangerous driving, almost a year ago in full view of her mother, walked out of the Vreed-en-Hoop Magistrate’s Court a free man. On Tuesday last, Magistrate Nyasha Williams-Hatmin, dismissed a charge [...] [...more]
By Rabindra Rooplall For this year statistics from the Supreme Court shows that 1,269 divorce matters were filed between January and December, which is higher than in 2009, which recorded 1,235 divorce cases. Sources from the court said that in almost all the cases filed, the main reason given was malicious desertion. For 2010, statistics from the [...] [...more]
Dem telephone company gun lose money because people now frighten to talk. Dem worried that anything dem seh gun land dem in trouble and de next thing is that dem can end up wid a treason charge. A man run and lef he wife because in a passion he claim how he got a good mind [...] [...more]
- Top Cop’s position likely to remain the same in election year January 1, is one of the most anticipated days for members of the Guyana Police Force. It is the day when their careers either take an upward movement or in many cases they are overlooked for promotion. This year will be no different, but there [...] [...more]
The administration of the Guyana Prison Service has irrefutably stated that the Georgetown Prison recorded no death of any inmate over the Christmas holiday weekend as was stated in a Kaieteur News article under the caption ‘Forgotten prisoner dies in cell’. The Prison Administration, in a strongly worded press statement, said that it refutes the article, [...] [...more]
The Crane Old Road which services the old and new Crane Housing Schemes as well as some sections of Best village, has for many years, remained in a state of disrepair. Residents have become almost resigned to a roadway filled with yawning potholes that renders traversing of this path rather burdensome. Periodically, the road is graded [...] [...more]
In the quest to award excellent coverage of children’s and women’s issues in Guyana by local media operatives, the United Children’s Fund (UNICEF) and the Ministry of Labour, Human Services and Social Security have teamed up to introduce the first annual media awards. According to a statement issued yesterday UNICEF and the Ministry are inviting [...] [...more]
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