Year: 2018

The Diamond Secondary School was a hive of activity on Monday as the Region Four leg of the Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts and Mathematics (STEAM) fair commenced. This biennial event allows for students to create and showcase projects in the areas of Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics (STEM), but the fair was this year extended to include the Arts category. Hundreds of students, hailing from as far as Mahaica on the East Coast of Demerara and Soesdyke on the East Bank of Demerara, attended the event accompanied by teachers, parents…

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Three men who robbed a businessman of G$5 million, along with a quantity of ammunition, appeared before the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts on Monday and were all remanded to prison for the robbery. The men: Alvin Solomon, 34, of Timehri, East Bank Demerara (EBD); Asif Khan, 54, of Lot 149 Bel West, West Bank Demerara (WBD) and Winston Raymond, 27, of Land of Canaan, EBD all denied the charge read to them by city Magistrate Judy Latchman. The charge stated that the trio robbed Inshan Alli Bacchus of G$5 million, along…

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The husband of the woman, who is reported to have ingested poison and then fed some to her year-old child, is denying that the couple had had a misunderstanding prior to the incident. However, the girl’s mother is accusing the husband; the baby’s father, of being responsible for the incident. Reports are that on Saturday morning, 19-year-old Roshanie Ramlakhan of Number 58 Village, Corentyne was picked up in a semi-conscious state next to a bus shed at Number 61 Village, with her infant child standing next to her. She claimed…

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…Fire Service roasted for poor response Several families were rudely awakened from their early morning slumber on Wednesday, as a fire raged through four houses in Pike Street, Kitty, Georgetown, razing three to the ground and destroying another. Now scores of persons are homeless and counting millions of dollars in losses. According to the Police, they received reports of the fire sometime around 04:00h on Wednesday and preliminary investigations have so far revealed that the fire started at around 03:00h in the Lot 185 Pike Street apartment of Oswald Layne.…

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Guyana Manganese Incorporated (GMI) has committed to employing a predominantly local workforce as it prepares to begin construction in July. This announcement was made on Monday when Natural Resources Minister Raphael Trotman and Chinese Ambassador to Guyana, Cui Jianchun visited the Matthews Ridge, Region One (Barima-Waini) mine site to conduct an assessment of the progress that has been made since GMI purchased the area from Reunion Manganese Inc (RMI) of Canada. GMI, a Bosai Mineral Group company, is currently on track to develop the mines, plant and factories to begin…

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The Government of Guyana has failed, to date, to put a very serious, robust, and well thought-out plan in place that would govern the country’s emerging petroleum sector in light of the newly-found oil and gas resources. This is according to Attorney-at-Law and Chartered Accountant Christopher Ram who believes his position is justified because the Government has not been able to state what exactly it hopes to do to ensure that this sector is efficiently managed and how the resources it will gain could be utilised. Ram said that this…

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