Swifter action needed at the courts to deal with human trafficking – Ramjattan
With 18 reported Trafficking in Persons (TIP) cases and 131 alleged victims recorded for the first half of this year, Minister of...
PANCAP youth meeting to draft tactical HIV response roadmap
Set for July 30–August 2, 2019, the Pan-Caribbean Partnership against HIV and AIDS (PANCAP), the mechanism that provides a structured and unified approach...
Over 1.2 million pounds of narcotics confiscated in 2018 – NANA report
The National Anti-Narcotics Agency (NANA), in collaboration with other agencies, was able to take some 579,412 kilogrammes of narcotics off the market...
Sophia wife killer’s sentence reduced from 83 to 30 years
A man who strangled his common-law wife and was convicted and sentenced to 83 years’ imprisonment in 2014 must now only serve...
Guyana, others to benefit from IMF’s improved transparency tool for natural resources sector
Guyana and 188 other nations stand to benefit from the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) recently improved transparency tool which is referred to...
Man’s murder conviction reduced to manslaughter
Clive Knights was today sentenced to 30 years behind bars after the Court of Appeal substituted his initial murder conviction with the...
Lands and Survey Commission moves to address shortage of technical staff
Head of the Guyana Lands and Survey Commission (GL&SC), Mr Trevor Benn, recently revealed that steps have been taken to address the...
Three charged with murder of fisherman
Two teenagers and a 26-year-old man were today charged with the murder of a young fisherman whom police said was killed by...
GPL’s proposed five-year development plan will suffer $21B operating loss — PUC report
In November 2018, the Guyana Power and Light Inc. (GPL) submitted its “Development and Expansion Five-year Programme (2018-2022)” to the Public Utilities...
GECOM’s notice is proof that house-to-house registration will exceed 3-month elections deadline — Jagdeo
Leader of the Opposition Bharrat Jagdeo says that the evidence needed to prove that the house-to-house registration will exceed the constitutional timeline...
