PPP plans to scrap Govt’s 20-year strategy to develop green state if re-elected
Opposition Leader Bharrat Jagdeo says the People’s Progressive Party (PPP) will scrap the APNU+AFC’s Green State Development Strategy (GSDS) if it is re-elected to office.
The Ministry of the Presidency’s Department of Environment on…
‘Sharky’ to spend five years behind bars for armed robbery, illegal gun, other charges
Twenty-two-year-old Wayne Chester known as ‘Sharky’ was sentenced to 14 years and six months jail for a series of charges including robbery underarms, possession of an unlicensed gun and a spent shell, among others offences.
However, he…
Education Ministry to push more physical activities into school curriculum
The Ministry of Education on Thursday held the finals of the National Physical Display Championship at the Cliff Anderson Sports Hall where schools from across the country assembled to display their skills in physical education.
The…
ExxonMobil, Petra renew partnership for U-14 School Football
The Petra Organisation and ExxonMobil have strengthened their partnership for the second edition of the Boys and Girls Under-14 School Football tournament, which hopes to see teams placing greater emphasis on structure.
Weather…
2017 shallow grave murder: Farmer jailed for 12 years
A 30-year-old farmer of Kumu Village, Central Rupununi, who admitted to killing his cousin and burying his body in a shallow grave, was on Thursday sentenced to 12 years imprisonment for the offence of manslaughter.
Initially indicted…
Educators on mission to raise Blind Awareness
The Special Education Needs Unit of the National Centre for Education Research Development (NCERD) Thursday held an outreach activity to commemorate Blindness Awareness Month, which is observed every year in May.
The outreach at NCERD’s…
Guyanese pick their Cricket World Cup favourites
Compiled by Akeem Greene and Avenash Ramzan
Which group of men will lift the Cricket World Cup 2019? That would be the trending question over the next six weeks as the 10 best ODI nations compete for global supremacy in England and…
Four years jail for Ecuadorian national caught with fake US visas in Guyana
Julio Herreira, a 36-year-old Chef from Ecuador, South America, was on Wednesday sentenced to four years imprisonment for cocaine possession and conspiracy to commit forgery.
He was reportedly involved in a United States Visa Scam in…
75 years jail for youth who murdered Mocha man
Twenty-five-year-old Kenkassie Lynch was on Thursday sentenced to 75 years of imprisonment for the murder of a Nelson Street, Mocha Arcadia, East Bank Demerara (EBD) resident in 2015.
Lynch, of Eccles EBD, was sentenced by Justice…
WORLD CUP: Favourites England crush SA in opener
Ben Stokes and Jofra Archer lit up The Oval to ensure England defeated South Africa and got their World Cup campaign off to a winning start.
Regularly bowling in excess of 90mph, Archer - playing only his fourth one-day international -…