Guyana Times

The announcement that one of the biggest and most profitable private companies in Guyana was granted a waiver of approximately billion in excise taxes, owed between 2002 and 2006, further confirms that Guyana is now being governed (dictated) by a few for a few. The resources and benefits of our country are controlled by a few and...

The owner of Delicious Restaurant is now counting his losses after bandits broke into his premises on Monday evening and carted off an undisclosed amount of money and other items.According to reports received, the restaurant which is located at Lot 60 Cummings Street, Alberttown, was broken in to about 22:00h when the family of the owner was out. A...

...and monsters Beasts? Animals? What else can you call those who invaded the externally grilled home of Mohamed and Bibi Jamila Munir, herded them into their internally grilled bedroom – the one without an escape trapdoor – then doused the house with gasoline and then set it ablaze? Surely these can’t be humans? What kind of twisted thinking would...

GCB/Hand-In-Hand U-19 Inter-county 3-day... -U-17s hold nerve to secure first innings points against Essequibo By Akeem Greene It was another impressive showing by openers Ronaldo Renee and Raymond Perez as they helped themselves each to delightful centuries on the final day of their match against Berbice in the Guyana Cricket Board (GCB) Under-19 three -day inter-county tournament at the Everest Ground...

– accuses the publication of a relentless campaign against him Prime Minister Moses Nagamootoo on Tuesday disputed a front page article of Guyana Times captioned “US media censorship observation – PM claims that US wants to damage image of coalition Govt”. The article was based on a statement issued by the Prime Minister’s Office, after Guyana Times sought a response from...

– Police summoned but failed to arrest situation Ruth Semple and her husband Horatio Edmondson – the alleged owner of a disputed farming land – were allegedly attacked by angry residents armed with cutlasses and other implements whiles in the presence of Police, who apparently out of fear, did nothing to arrest the situation. Guyana Times understands that Edmondson, an...

A Parfaite Harmonie, West Bank Demerara man was on Tuesday granted 0,000 bail after he was slapped with an unlawful wounding charge. Jeffrey Bacchus, 53, pleaded not guilty to the charge when he appeared before Magistrate Fabayo Azore at the Georgetown Magistrates’ Courts. It is alleged that on April 16 at Georgetown, Bacchus unlawfully wounded Steve Singh with intent to...

Dear Editor, I make reference to the article captioned “One Berbice factory produces more than two Demerara estates….GAWU was aware of LBI closure since 2011” that was carried in another section of the media on April 16. The article, in its entirety, described the positions of GAWU and GuySuCo on the closure of all remaining operations at LBI and...

Junior Melville, of Silvertown, Wismar, Linden, was sentenced to three years behind bars on Tuesday by Magistrate Clive Nurse after entering a guilty plea to charges of having unlicensed firearms and ammunition in his possession. The 29-year-old defendant made his final appearance at the Linden Magistrate’s Court where the sentence was handed down. The Court heard that Melville was...

Guyana is now facing a crisis of sorts with drug shortages being registered across all the 10 Administrative Regions. This situation could have been avoided had the A Partnership for National Unity/Alliance For Change (APNU/AFC) Government maintained the internationally prescribed drug procurement practice of prequalification. The Government had advanced new mechanisms that changed the way drugs were procured and...