Centenarian Gertrude Dolphin honoured during week long celebrations
Ms. Jackie Butcher (third from right) and her team during the presentation of a wheelchair to centenarian Gertrude Dolphin (seated). With them are Gertie’s niece Coreen (third from left) and her last surviving brother, Irad Dolphin.RELATIVES, friends and past students dedicated one week recently to honour and show appreciation for the life and work of […]
Theatre Guild to receive $500,000 from Courts
THE Theatre Guild said it will today receive a generous and much needed donation of $500,000 from Courts Guyana Limited.
As major construction and interior finishes are close to completion, the focus of the rebuilding project has turned to preparing and installing the state of the art electrical systems required for the operation of the new […]
GUYSUCO reports progress towards commissioning Skeldon project
GUYANA Sugar Corporation (GUYSUCO) reported, last Friday, that the steam power plant at the Skeldon Sugar Modernisation Project (SSMP) is progressing and tests conducted on the boilers and turbo alternators, under load conditions, have been successful.
A release said the components tested are key to the co-generation aspect of the operations and have now been synchronised […]
Disrupted West Coast Berbice water supply restored
POTABLE water supply, from the Guyana Water Inc. (GWI) pump station at Number 7, West Coast Berbice, has been restored.
The flow had been disrupted following a major mishap caused by an electrical fire on Friday but GWI Operations Director, Mr. Yuri Chandisingh said the damaged panel was replaced and the situation was returned to normalcy […]
World Bank backs anti-Aids experiment
THOUSANDS of people in Africa will be paid to avoid unsafe sex, under a groundbreaking World Bank-backed experiment aimed at halting the spread of AIDS.
The US$1.8 million trial — to be launched this year — will counsel 3,000 men and women aged 15-30 in southern rural Tanzania over three years, paying them on condition that […]
Alan Jagnarayan shot two days after arriving in Guyana for funeral
A GUYANESE, visiting from overseas for a funeral, was shot and wounded Monday night in a robbery attack outside the house where he is a guest.
Alan Jagnarayan, 47, is now a patient at Georgetown Public Hospital (GPH), nursing three gunshot wounds but his condition is reported to be stable.
Having been to a wake, he had […]
Church has a role in Carifesta - Minister Anthony
MINISTER of Culture, Youth and Sport Dr. Frank Anthony has urged the congregation of the Winners Cathedral Church, D’Urban Street, to become an integral part of the Caribbean Festival of Arts (Carifesta) X activities.
During an address to the congregation on Monday, Minister Anthony said that the church community is an essential institution which cannot be […]
Challenges must be confronted with firmness
- Minister Persaud at largest IAC Mela in BerbiceMINISTER of Agriculture Robert Persaud joined thousands at the Indian Arrival Committee’s (IAC) annual Mela at Albion Sports Complex, Berbice on May 5, where he urged Indo-Guyanese to ensure that the struggles of their ancestors were not in vain, pointing to the need for Guyanese to confront […]
Taxi driver, miner shot by robbers
A TAXI driver narrowly escaped death when he accelerated after two gunmen opened fire on him at Diamond New Housing Scheme, on Sunday night.
Andy Gobin, of Brickery, also on East Bank Demerara, had been hired by the duo about 22:15h but, at their requested destination, they held him at gunpoint.
Police said Gobin sped off, despite […]
NAMILCO ups flour price
THE National Milling Company of Guyana Inc. (NAMILCO) has increased its flour price with effect from today.
Addressing the media at NAMILCO at Agricola, East Bank Demerara, Managing Director of NAMILCO, Mr. Bert Sukhai, said since January 2007, wheat prices have increased by 120 percent, while flour prices have increased only by 60 percent.
This has caused […]
