Year: 2018

Eleven-year-old Alex Muntaz of CV Nunes Primary School, Anna Regina, secured 516 marks at the National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) and ultimately the top spot in Region Two (Pomeroon-Supenaam). The elated lad credited his hard work and dedication together with support from his parents for his success. Muntaz is a quiet, easy-going person who has shown great potential at an early age. At his nursery school – Rainbow Nursery, he captured the top student position for all the years he spent there. While at CV Nunes Primary he continued with…

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Minister of State Joseph Harmon on Wednesday received a courtesy call from the Queen’s Young Leaders Award recipient, Marva Langevine. The brief meeting was held at the Minister’s Office at the Ministry of the Presidency. Minister Harmon expressed his pride in seeing a young Guyanese receive such a prestigious award and expressed an interest in having his office in Region Three (Essequibo Islands-West Demerara) work closely with Langevine. Having returned to Guyana hoping to build her network in Guyana, Langevine said the Minister of State’s office was an excellent place…

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The Caribbean Community (CARICOM) must do all it can to let the integration movement be owned by the people, Barbados’s new Prime Minister, Mia Mottley told Heads of Government. This is according to a DPI release which said that in her inaugural address at the opening of the 39th CARICOM Heads of Government Meeting, the Prime Minister noted that the Community is running out of time to get the “buy in” of people to the integration movement. The conference is being held in Montego Bay, Jamaica. Buy in to the…

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Bhagat Ram Jailal, also called “Baggot” or “Davo”, of Lot 49 Ocean Garden, Meten-Meer-Zorg, West Coast Demerara, was found hanging in a cell at the Leonora Police Station on Monday at about 5:30h. Based on reports received, the 61-year-old farmer had been arrested on Sunday at about 13:00h following an allegation that he had molested a 12-year-old female. After vehemently denying the allegation, he had been placed in the lock-ups as the Police continued their investigations, but on Monday morning he was found hanging by his shirt from the window…

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…visually-impaired Linden student excels at Grade Six Visually-impaired 12-year-old Lindener Dimitry Waldron has managed to secure 495 of a maximum 529 marks at this year’s National Grade Six Assessment (NGSA) examinations. Waldron, of Wismar Hill Primary School at Wismar, Linden, Region 10 (Upper Demerara-Berbice), has secured a spot at a top high school in the community, the Mackenzie High School and has even been officially offered a place at one of the country’s top schools, President’s College. Waldron, who has congenital toxoplasmosis, is yet to decide upon which career he…

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David Lewis, a 48-year-old bus driver of Tuschen, East Bank Essequibo (EBE), was on Tuesday slapped with a verbal abuse charge when he appeared at the Leonora Magistrate’s Court. He was accused of verbally abusing a passenger who was travelling in his minibus, bearing registration number BSS 5193, and who requested that he stop speeding. According to reports, the young woman is claiming that Lewis was driving at a pace of 140mph which frightened her and as such, she requested that he slow down. However, this angered the man who…

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– feasibility study to determine specific areas for funding BY JARRYL BRYAN ExxonMobil on Monday made a commitment that its philanthropic arm will be investing US$10 million into Guyana’s conservation efforts and in collaboration with the University of Guyana. The ExxonMobil Foundation in the United States engages in a number of philanthropic activities with a focus on advancing education and training. With the company’s local subsidiary having discovered in excess of three billion barrels of recoverable oil off Guyana’s coast since 2015, the Foundation has turned its attention to Guyana.…

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