Guyana News

The race for the presidency is bringing out the serious and the devious in political parties and civil society alike.

Shaeyantie Adams Shaeyantie Adams of Block - X', Diamond Housing Scheme, East Bank Demerara, pleaded not guilty to four counts of fraudulent conversion when acting Chief Magistrate Melissa Robertson read the charges to her.

Three men who allegedly conspired to forge a Scotia Bank managera TMs cheque and used it to obtain over $2.2M in plucked chicken from a woman and a man were yesterday granted bail when they appeared at the Georgetown Magistratea TMs Court.

The United States Department of State disseminates three annual reports which the Government of Guyana never fails to repudiate The Government of the United States, through its Department of State in Washing-ton, DC now under Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, has become the Govern-ment of Guyana's recurrent nightmare.

President Bharrat Jagdeo yesterday pledged some US$30 million over the next three years to purchase laptops for poor families as GT&T officially launched the Suriname/ Guyana- Submarine Cable System , the backbone on which the e-magine broadband service was rolled out earlier this month.

No month more than August evinces the patterns of challenge and response in the annals of the African-Guyanese experience.

Every country in the Caribbean takes pride in its hotels for the role they play in the local tourism industry, the backbone of its economy.

A pump attendant employed at M. Ali Gas Station at 13 Strand, New Amsterdam, Berbice, is believed to have absconded with $1,100,700 after collecting the money from a fuel purchaser.

Lethem residents are now contemplating where they will get their supplies of chicken, now that the importation of the item from Brazil was suddenly halted two weeks ago.

Had the public security situation throughout the country not been so dreadful, the public might not have realised just how much time the Minister of Home Affairs spends on issues which have little to do with everyday violent crimes.A Mr Rohee seems attached to day-trips along the coastland at the head of little groups of members of the National ...

By Dr Bertrand G. Ramcharan Guyana has been a fractured nation throughout its history and remains so.

The life of a 21-year-old businessman was snuffed out yesterday afternoon in an accident on the De Kinderen Public Road at Mahaicony, East Coast Demerara .

Four children of Plegtanker, East Bank Berbice who survived after being poisoned by their father six years ago, have moved on and put the ordeal behind them.

The long, often arduous journey for unbeaten super middleweight Lennox "2 Sharpe" Allen, a native of Guyana, took him around the world before finally settling in Brooklyn.

A community's physical form, rather than its land uses, is its most intrinsic and enduring characteristic.

Amid the daily diet of crime, unprecedented violence against women and children, the divisive and bitter politics that suffuses every part of life and the increasingly oppressive hands of the government and the opaqueness of its business, it is easy to forget that positive things are also happening.

After well over a year living in Guyana again, I am often asked, "What's the difference between here and outside?" It's an impossible question to answer objectively, precisely because almost all the ingredients are subjective.

The mother of the West Berbice pedal cyclist who was fatally struck down around 9:40 pm on Saturday at the nearby No.

Alissa Trotz is editor of the In the Diaspora Column As almost every Guyanese knows by now, Local Government Minister Kellawan Lall, recently asked if the government would prefer to deal with a health crisis rather than assist the City Council, is reported to have responded: "Well, if there is a health crisis in the city I'll be glad because it ...

The Joint Services yesterday conducted a Contingency Plan Activation exercise in Georgetown and New Amsterdam, which was aimed at testing the unita s ability to respond to crisis situations within the prison system.