January 2020

President David Granger on Wednesday commissioned Radio Essequibo 95.5 FM, the first radio station on the Essequibo Coast. The Head of State noted that the occasion was in keeping with the Coalition Government’s commitment to bridging…

Finance Minister, Winston Jordan, on Wednesday was given a tour of E-Networks subsea cable landing station at Kingston, Georgetown. The landing station houses E-Networks’ Xlink cable, a newly constructed submarine fiber optic cable that…

The cricket development department of the Guyana Cricket Board, in pursuit of immediately answering the dire call for development of Cricket in Upper Demerara, has donated a large quantity of playing equipment to the Upper Demerara Cricket…

Fire Chief Gregory Wickham is calling on motorists to adhere to emergency sirens and clear the roadways. The Fire Chief said that while the fire Wednesday at the Psychiatric Ward of the Georgetown Public Hospital (GPHC) was extinguished…

Several foreign governments, including the United Kingdom and Australia, on Wednesday, urged Guyana to abolish the death penalty, but Guyana says that decision will have to be determined by the people in a constitutional reform process.…

The United States Government on Wednesday said it was concerned about the way Guyana has applied the constitution and court rulings on the holding of elections. “The United States is concerned about recent actions by Guyana that may…

The Guyana Police Force has issued wanted bulletins for three men of Linden in connection with the offence of rape. The Force said that 30-year-old Wayne Orlando Sauers of 36 Stewart Path Christianburg, Wismar Linden is wanted for an…

Fifty-year-old Sean Bacchus walked out of the Sexual Offences Court a free man after a 12-member jury returned a unanimous verdict, acquitting him of a rape charge. Bacchus was on trial before Justice Jo-Ann Barlow at the High Court,…

"If ya don't hear, ya guh feel" were the words of a mother to her 18-year-old son as he appeared before the Chief Magistrate Ann McLennan charged with murder. Leon Patterson, a fruit vendor of 'B' Field Sophia, Greater Georgetown, was…

A 49-year-old driver was on Wednesday charged with engaging in sexual activity with a 12-year-old girl. Orlando Fraser of Pike Street, Kitty was not required to plead to the indictable charge which was read to him by the Chief Magistrate…